[dpdk-dev] Permanently binding NIC ports with DPDK drivers

[Panu Matilainen]

On 08/25/2016 02:01 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 8/25/2016 5:57 AM, Keren Hochman wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I there a way to permanently bind a nic port when using DPDK drier with
>> kernel < 3.6 ? (In this kernel VFIO driver is not supported)?
>> Thanks, Keren
>>
>
> There was a tool from Panu for this purpose:
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-December/029500.html

Yup, but driverctl uses the newer driver_override binding feature which 
is only in kernel >= 3.16 so it's of no use with kernel < 3.6.

	- Panu -