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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Priya Ramanathan <shunmugapriya.ramanathan@gmail.com>
Cc: users@dpdk.org,
	Koteswararao Kondepu <koteswararao.kondepu@gmail.com>,
	andreaf <andreaf@utdallas.edu>
Subject: Re: Does DPDK supports EPOLL for 10G X550T (ixgbe driver)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:14:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230119141406.4ba3d040@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMgau3m+tL0GqsZw8PK+-pNwLyNfUaPK-4OOP=Zag9N36_9aqQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:43:19 -0600
Priya Ramanathan <shunmugapriya.ramanathan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We use two NIC cards - 10G X550T (ixgbe) for the DPDK-based application.
> The application uses EPOLL for the UDP communication between the server and
> the client.
> With the kernel driver, the EPOLL works properly, but when we enable DPDK
> support, we cannot see the communication correctly.
> 
> I would like to know whether anyone has tested DPDK with EPOLL on the 10G
> X550T model.
> Also, please suggest which NIC models have been verified using DPDK with
> EPOLL for UDP communication. Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
> Priya.

DPDK does not directly support UDP it is designed for raw packet applications.
It does not have traditional Linux sockets.

DPDK does support device interrupt and rte_epoll model.
It requires configuring interrupts and using VFIO.
See the l3fwd power for an example.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-19 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-19 19:43 Priya Ramanathan
2023-01-19 22:14 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-01-19 22:29   ` Priya Ramanathan
2023-01-20  4:04     ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-01-30 17:53       ` Priya Ramanathan
2023-01-30 19:21         ` Priya Ramanathan

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