Really? I know that the application is using a PMD driver for Intel card,
will this driver work with memif too?



Il giorno gio 17 mar 2022 alle ore 17:44 Dmitry Kozlyuk <
dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 2022-03-17 16:55 (UTC+0100), Antonio Di Bacco:
> > Unfortunately I cannot change the applications but I only can create some
> > fake VFs and connect them with software.
> > Could OVS come to the rescue?
>
> You don't need to modify app code to communicate via shared memory:
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/memif.html
>
> >
> > Il giorno gio 17 mar 2022 alle ore 14:27 Timothy Wood <timwood@gwu.edu>
> ha
> > scritto:
> >
> > > One option is to modify the applications to use DPDK's multi-process
> > > support:
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.html
> > > Essentially you would have one app read from the real port and then
> write
> > > data to a software queue in shared memory. Instead of having the
> second app
> > > read from a port it would read from the queue.
> > >
> > > If you want to build more elaborate combinations of functions, check
> out
> > > our OpenNetVM research project which focused on high performance NF
> > > chaining: http://sdnfv.github.io/onvm/
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Timothy Wood, Ph. D.
> > > he/him/his
> > > Associate Professor
> > > Department of Computer Science
> > > The George Washington University
> > > http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~timwood
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 5:29 AM Antonio Di Bacco <
> a.dibacco.ks@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have two DPDK applications that are using virtual functions built on
> > >> top of two physical functions that correspond to the two ports of a
> 25 Gbps
> > >> ethernet card. The two physical ports are connected one to the other
> with
> > >> an optic fiber.
> > >> Now, I would like to realize the same setup but without using a
> physical
> > >> 25 Gbps card, I wonder if this is possible.
> > >>
> > >>
>
>