[dpdk-dev] PMD for Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC - Request for guidelines for submission

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Wed May 28 10:52:24 CEST 2014


Hi Sujith,

> One aspect of ENIC PMD is that it works with VFIO-PCI and not UIO.  Hope
> this is acceptable.  The following thread in dpdk-dev influenced this decision.
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-July/000373.html

You may find this [1] patchset interesting. Basically, it adds native support for VFIO to do the binding and unbinding in DPDK. Whether it fits your purposes depends on your code, but hopefully you'll be able to simplify your code.

[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-May/002568.html

Best regards,
Anatoly Burakov
DPDK SW Engineer





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