An earlier email sent today to this distribution incorrectly claimed that dpdk-devbind.py was not working on Amazon Linux 2 Kernel 5.10. This was my error. IOMMU was not turned on. I thought it default ON; it does not even for c5n.metal instances. The correct steps are: * follow https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/ena.html under "On AWS, the metal instances are supporting IOMMU for both arm64 and x86_64 hosts" to enable IOMMU by modifying grub boot file. * follow instructions at https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers/blob/master/userspace/dpdk/README.md to update the vfio-pci driver. dpdk-bind will then work: Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver ============================================ 0000:7f:00.0 'Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) ec20' drv=vfio-pci unused=ena