dpdk: Add support for Mellanox ConnectX-4 devices

[vpp.git] / vpp / conf / startup.conf

diff --git a/vpp/conf/startup.conf b/vpp/conf/startup.conf
index 51a46d7..bce0020 100644 (file)
--- a/vpp/conf/startup.conf
+++ b/vpp/conf/startup.conf
@@ -1,15 +1,99 @@
 
 unix {
   nodaemon
-  log /tmp/vpe.log
+  log /tmp/vpp.log
   full-coredump
-  cli-listen localhost:5002
 }
 
 api-trace {
   on
 }
 
+api-segment {
+  gid vpp
+}
+
+cpu {
+       ## In the VPP there is one main thread and optionally the user can create worker(s)
+       ## The main thread and worker thread(s) can be pinned to CPU core(s) manually or automatically
+
+       ## Manual pinning of thread(s) to CPU core(s)
+
+       ## Set logical CPU core where main thread runs
+       # main-core 1
+
+       ## Set logical CPU core(s) where worker threads are running
+       # corelist-workers 2-3,18-19
+
+       ## Automatic pinning of thread(s) to CPU core(s)
+
+       ## Sets number of CPU core(s) to be skipped (1 ... N-1)
+       ## Skipped CPU core(s) are not used for pinning main thread and working thread(s).
+       ## The main thread is automatically pinned to the first available CPU core and worker(s)
+       ## are pinned to next free CPU core(s) after core assigned to main thread
+       # skip-cores 4
+
+       ## Specify a number of workers to be created
+       ## Workers are pinned to N consecutive CPU cores while skipping "skip-cores" CPU core(s)
+       ## and main thread's CPU core
+       # workers 2
+
+       ## Set scheduling policy and priority of main and worker threads
+
+       ## Scheduling policy options are: other (SCHED_OTHER), batch (SCHED_BATCH)
+       ## idle (SCHED_IDLE), fifo (SCHED_FIFO), rr (SCHED_RR)
+       # scheduler-policy fifo
+
+       ## Scheduling priority is used only for "real-time policies (fifo and rr),
+       ## and has to be in the range of priorities supported for a particular policy
+       # scheduler-priority 50
+}
+
 dpdk {
-  socket-mem 1024
+       ## Change default settings for all intefaces
+       # dev default {
+               ## Number of receive queues, enables RSS
+               ## Default is 1
+               # num-rx-queues 3
+
+               ## Number of transmit queues, Default is equal
+               ## to number of worker threads or 1 if no workers treads
+               # num-tx-queues 3
+
+               ## Number of descriptors in transmit and receive rings
+               ## increasing or reducing number can impact performance
+               ## Default is 1024 for both rx and tx
+               # num-rx-desc 512
+               # num-tx-desc 512
+
+               ## VLAN strip offload mode for interface
+               ## Default is off
+               # vlan-strip-offload on
+       # }
+
+       ## Whitelist specific interface by specifying PCI address
+       # dev 0000:02:00.0
+
+       ## Whitelist specific interface by specifying PCI address and in
+       ## addition specify custom parameters for this interface
+       # dev 0000:02:00.1 {
+       #       num-rx-queues 2
+       # }
+
+       ## Change UIO driver used by VPP, Options are: uio_pci_generic, vfio-pci
+       ## and igb_uio (default)
+       # uio-driver uio_pci_generic
+
+       ## Disable mutli-segment buffers, improves performance but
+       ## disables Jumbo MTU support
+       # no-multi-seg
+
+       ## Increase number of buffers allocated, needed only in scenarios with
+       ## large number of interfaces and worker threads. Value is per CPU socket.
+       ## Default is 32768
+       # num-mbufs 128000
+
+       ## Change hugepages allocation per-socket, needed only if there is need for
+       ## larger number of mbufs. Default is 256M on each detected CPU socket
+       # socket-mem 2048,2048
 }