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[ovs-dev] docs: Add note for AF_XDP installation

Message ID 1591724532-5460-1-git-send-email-yihung.wei@gmail.com
State Accepted
Commit f0aed51ca70f2f7ff38b292b6aaf34b27ebd9575
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Series [ovs-dev] docs: Add note for AF_XDP installation | expand

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Yi-Hung Wei June 9, 2020, 5:42 p.m. UTC
Add notes about some configuration issues when enabling AF_XDP
support.

Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
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 Documentation/intro/install/afxdp.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

Comments

William Tu June 17, 2020, 3:48 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 10:42:12AM -0700, Yi-Hung Wei wrote:
> Add notes about some configuration issues when enabling AF_XDP
> support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
> ---
Applied to master, thanks
William
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diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/afxdp.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/afxdp.rst
index 99003e4dbdb2..3c8f78825b41 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/afxdp.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/afxdp.rst
@@ -146,11 +146,20 @@  Make sure the libbpf.so is installed correctly::
   ldconfig
   ldconfig -p | grep libbpf
 
+.. note::
+   Check /etc/ld.so.conf if libbpf is installed but can not be found by
+   ldconfig.
+
 Third, ensure the standard OVS requirements are installed and
 bootstrap/configure the package::
 
   ./boot.sh && ./configure --enable-afxdp
 
+.. note::
+   If you encounter "WARNING: bpf/libbpf.h: present but cannot be compiled",
+   check the Linux headers are in line with libbpf. For example, in Ubuntu,
+   check the installed linux-headers* and linux-libc-dev* dpkg.
+
 Finally, build and install OVS::
 
   make && make install