From: Maryam Tahhan Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:14:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: docs: update dpdkstats documentation X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=collectd.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=19a024b9e2711c6480abe0b7d61af70dbba2242f docs: update dpdkstats documentation Update the dpdkstats documentation to state that it shouldn't be used with OVS-with-DPDK. The Open vSwitch plugins is what should be used. Signed-off-by: Maryam Tahhan --- diff --git a/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md b/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md index 8991a615..55ee06bc 100644 --- a/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md +++ b/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md @@ -1,7 +1,14 @@ # The dpdkstat plugin **Data Plane Development Kit** (DPDK) is a set of drivers and libraries for fast -packet processing. +packet processing. Please note that this plugin is a polling based plugin rather +than an events based plugin (using it will drive up core utilization on a system). + +**PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS PLUGIN FOR OVS-DPDK**. dpdkstat is really for DPDK +applications that have no other way of exposing stats. For OVS or OVS-with-DPDK the +Open vSwitch plugins available in collectd Version 5.8.0 should be used for +collecting stats and events. In addition the OVS plugin is events based rather +than polling based and will have a smaller footprint on the system. ## Summary