[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] [RFC] [VFIO] Add VFIO support to DPDK

[Sujith Sankar (ssujith)]

Thank you Anatoly !
I’ll do that and get back in case of questions.

Regards,
-Sujith

On 08/09/14 2:00 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:

>Hi Sujith
>
>Of course you can. Just use the igb_uio driver instead. Refer to the
>Getting Started Guide from Intel, it'll walk you through the steps,
>although they are basically the same as for VFIO.
>
>Thanks,
>Anatoly
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sujith Sankar (ssujith) [mailto:ssujith at cisco.com]
>Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 9:28 AM
>To: Burakov, Anatoly; Stephen Hemminger
>Cc: dev at dpdk.org
>Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] [RFC] [VFIO] Add VFIO support to
>DPDK
>
>Anatoly,
>Thanks for the quick response !
>
>I am able do PCI passthrough and use the NIC in the guest OS.
>What I¹m trying to do is run DPDK in the guest and make use of the
>passed-through NIC.  Without using VFIO, could I achieve this?
>
>Thanks,
>-Sujith
>
>On 08/09/14 1:51 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi Sujith
>>
>>Not that I know of, no. There are other ways to run physical NICs in a
>>VM though, you don't require VFIO for that.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Anatoly
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sujith Sankar (ssujith) [mailto:ssujith at cisco.com]
>>Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 9:20 AM
>>To: Burakov, Anatoly; Stephen Hemminger
>>Cc: dev at dpdk.org
>>Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] [RFC] [VFIO] Add VFIO support to
>>DPDK
>>
>>Hi Anatoly,
>>
>>Has anything happened in this front?  Do you see running of DPDK in
>>guest OS on KVM with physical NIC passed through to it happening soon?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-Sujith
>>
>>On 02/05/14 2:28 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Stephen,
>>>
>>>> Will this work in guest? or only on bare metal?
>>>
>>>VFIO is Linux-only, and in theory will be able to work on the guest,
>>>but not at the moment, since it requires IOMMU. There was a GSoC
>>>proposal for KVM to do IOMMU implementation, and there were a few AMD
>>>IOMMU-emulation patches floating around the KVM lists for some time,
>>>but nothing has made it into release yet.
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>Anatoly Burakov
>>>DPDK SW Engineer
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------------------------------
>>>Intel Shannon Limited
>>>Registered in Ireland
>>>Registered Office: Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County
>>>Kildare Registered Number: 308263 Business address: Dromore House,
>>>East Park, Shannon, Co. Clare
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>