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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Jez Higgins <jez@jezuk.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Running DPDK as non-root
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Hi

2016-07-07 16:47, Jez Higgins:
> Is it possible to get DPDK up and running as non-root - if so, can
> anyone guide me to what I'm missing? Or should I be giving this up as a
> bad job?

You can try the --no-huge option.
But most of drivers won't work without hugepage currently.
A rework of the memory allocation is needed to make it work better.