Redhat and small system support
Initial 17.10 commit
Final 17.07 cleanup, 17.10 next
Added CentOS grub support, this should complete the CentOS support
Added Centos install/unistall
Added TCP parameters.
Change-Id: I064e3a4118969ac36e62924a6a3f8a98f132ba60
Signed-off-by: John DeNisco <jdenisco@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Barach <dave@barachs.net>
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+
+unix {{
+{unix}
+ log /tmp/vpp.log
+ full-coredump
+ cli-listen /run/vpp/cli.sock
+}}
+
+api-trace {{
+ on
+}}
+
+cpu {{
+{cpu}
+ scheduler-policy fifo
+ scheduler-priority 50
+
+ ## 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 {{
+{devices}
+
+ ## 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
+ # }}
+
+ ## Specify bonded interface and its slaves via PCI addresses
+ ##
+ ## Bonded interface in XOR load balance mode (mode 2) with L3 and L4 headers
+ # vdev eth_bond0,mode=2,slave=0000:02:00.0,slave=0000:03:00.0,xmit_policy=l34
+ # vdev eth_bond1,mode=2,slave=0000:02:00.1,slave=0000:03:00.1,xmit_policy=l34
+ ##
+ ## Bonded interface in Active-Back up mode (mode 1)
+ # vdev eth_bond0,mode=1,slave=0000:02:00.0,slave=0000:03:00.0
+ # vdev eth_bond1,mode=1,slave=0000:02:00.1,slave=0000:03:00.1
+
+ ## Change UIO driver used by VPP, Options are: igb_uio, vfio-pci
+ ## and uio_pci_generic (default)
+ # uio-driver vfio-pci
+
+ ## 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 16384
+ # 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
+}}
+
+# Adjusting the plugin path depending on where the VPP plugins are:
+#plugins
+#{{
+# path /home/bms/vpp/build-root/install-vpp-native/vpp/lib64/vpp_plugins
+#}}
+
+# Alternate syntax to choose plugin path
+#plugin_path /home/bms/vpp/build-root/install-vpp-native/vpp/lib64/vpp_plugins
+
+{tcp}