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? Il giorno gio 17 mar 2022 alle ore 14:27 Timothy Wood 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 > 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. >> >>