dpdk: add configure option

Ticket: #5859

diff --git a/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst b/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst
index db4600babee454a4acd27b9660a8ff1437e2d1fd..a73666061cc5b9275b6d98dc66a7df8336a7acba 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst
+++ b/doc/userguide/configuration/suricata-yaml.rst
@@ -1945,6 +1945,12 @@ processes packets via passed packet descriptors.
 
     `High-level overview of DPDK application`
 
+To use DPDK capture module, Suricata must be compiled with DPDK option enabled.
+Support for DPDK can be enabled in configure step of the build process such as:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    ./configure --enable-dpdk
 
 Suricata makes use of DPDK for packet acquisition in workers runmode.
 The whole DPDK configuration resides in the `dpdk:` node. This node encapsulates

diff --git a/doc/userguide/install.rst b/doc/userguide/install.rst
index 3dbce1affd0de8950947c46088cd30050684f744..e240908e73046637177ebfbfad9f398097c69d0f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/userguide/install.rst
+++ b/doc/userguide/install.rst
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ Common configure options
 
     Enables GeoIP support for detection.
 
+.. option:: --enable-dpdk
+
+    Enables `DPDK <https://www.dpdk.org/>` packet capture method.
 
 Dependencies
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^