From: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:50:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc: add missing new EAL options in testpmd guide
X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~9363
X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e3ab7a94ef51571ed094405c148450b5a09f2ceb;p=dpdk.git

doc: add missing new EAL options in testpmd guide

Added information on testpmd user guide
for -l, --lcores and --master-lcore options

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
index 3898e67237..6cbbf40418 100644
--- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,30 @@ See the DPDK Getting Started Guide for more information on these options.
 
     Set the hexadecimal bitmask of the cores to run on.
 
+*   -l CORELIST
+
+    List of cores to run on
+
+    The argument format is <c1>[-c2][,c3[-c4],...]
+    where c1, c2, etc are core indexes between 0 and 128
+
+*   --lcores COREMAP
+
+    Map lcore set to physical cpu set
+
+    The argument format is
+        '<lcores[@cpus]>[<,lcores[@cpus]>...]'
+
+    lcores and cpus list are grouped by '(' and ')'
+    Within the group, '-' is used for range separator,
+    ',' is used for single number separator.
+    '( )' can be omitted for single element group,
+    '@' can be omitted if cpus and lcores have the same value
+
+*   --master-lcore ID
+
+    Core ID that is used as master
+
 *   -n NUM
 
     Set the number of memory channels to use.