+EAL Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The following are the EAL command-line options that can be used in conjunction
+with the ``dpdk-test-compress-perf`` application.
+See the DPDK Getting Started Guides for more information on these options.
+
+* ``-c <COREMASK>`` or ``-l <CORELIST>``
+
+ Set the hexadecimal bitmask of the cores to run on. The corelist is a
+ list cores to use.
+
+.. Note::
+
+ One lcore is needed for process admin, tests are run on all other cores.
+ To run tests on two lcores, three lcores must be passed to the tool.
+
+* ``-w <PCI>``
+
+ Add a PCI device in white list.
+
+* ``--vdev <driver><id>``
+
+ Add a virtual device.
+
+Application Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~