[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce low-latency one-shot rx interrupt into DPDK with polling/interrupt switch control example

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Jan 26 18:07:09 CET 2015


On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:53:55 +0800
Danny Zhou <danny.zhou at intel.com> wrote:

> This patchset includes below features:
> 1) Enable one-shot rx queue interrupt in ixgbe PMD for PF as well as VF.
> 2) Build on top of the VFIO mechanism instead of UIO, so it could support
> up to 64 interrupt vectors for rx queue interrupts.

This is very much needed in virtual environments where DPDK is used in
a guest. In that environment, VFIO is not supported only UIO will work.
Either using igb_uio or uio_generic driver is necessary.

Could you make this work for these as well?


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