[dpdk-dev] Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications: CentOS or Debian

[Selvaganapathy Chidambaram]

Hi Daniel,

virtio-net-pmd (dpdk-1.5) works on CentOS 6.x . Just verified basic packet
flow with one queue.

Thanks,
Selvaganapathy.C.


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Kan <dan at nyansa.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the all the feedbacks. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has 3.8.x kernel and
> Fedcore 18 has 3.10.x kernel. Both kernels are not compatible with the
> vmxnet-usermap driver which supports only up to 3.2.x. virtio-net-pmd
> requires kernel 3.8.x and qemu 1.5 for multi-queue support. Since CentOS's
> kernel is on its own path, I'm wondering if anyone has any issue with
> virtio-net-pmd on CentOS 6.x.
>
> Prashant, CentOS is essentially the same as RHEL 6.3 minus the support.
>
> Dan
>
> On Jan 30, 2014, at 6:06 AM, Hamed khanmirza <hamedkh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > We are also using Debian 7.3, from the DPDK v1.3.1 up to version 1.5.1r1.
> > it works completely fine.
> >
> > regards,
> > - Hamed
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Daniel Kaminsky <
> > daniel.kaminsky at infinitelocality.com> wrote:
> >
> >> We're using CentOS 6.5 and Ubuntu 12.04 and don't see any issue with
> both
> >> of them.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Daniel Kaminsky
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Prashant Upadhyaya <
> >> prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Dan,
> >>>
> >>> Intel DPDK release notes(1.5.2) mention the following tested OS --
> >>> * Fedora release 18
> >>> * Ubuntu* 12.04 LTS
> >>> * Wind River* Linux* 5
> >>> * Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 6.3
> >>> * SUSE Enterprise Linux* 11 SP2
> >>>
> >>> I have personally used Fedora 18 and it works fine for me for
> >>> virtualization including SRIOV and pass through as well as virtio with
> >> KNI
> >>> backend.
> >>> So I am tending to stick to Fedora 18.
> >>>
> >>> I don't know why is CentOS not tested and mentioned in release notes.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> -Prashant
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Kan
> >>> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:01 PM
> >>> To: dev at dpdk.org
> >>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications:
> >>> CentOS or Debian
> >>>
> >>> I'm deciding between Debian 7.3 (3.2.0 kernel) and CentOS 6.5 (2.6.32
> >>> kernel) for production. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendation. We
> >> run
> >>> the DPDK application in a virtualized environment. Currently, we
> >> configure
> >>> NICs in pass-through mode which gives the best performance. In the
> >> future,
> >>> we plan to use DPDK with paravirtualized nics (eg. vmxnet3-usermap).
> >> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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