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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Saygin, Artur" <artur.saygin@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK and custom memory
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:03:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1971750.bXvAyT2929@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1E02754DD4D4F4EAC7A14C1202CE62073E8E330@ORSMSX102.amr.corp.intel.com>

Hello,

2014-08-29 18:40, Saygin, Artur:
> Imagine a PMD for an FPGA-based NIC that is limited to accessing certain
> memory regions <system, PCI, etc>.

Does it mean Intel is making an FPGA-based NIC?

> Is there a way to make DPDK use that exact memory?

Maybe I don't understand the question well, because it doesn't seem really
different of what other PMDs do.
Assuming your NIC is PCI, you can access it via uio (igb_uio) or VFIO.

> Perhaps this is more of a hugetlbfs question than DPDK but I thought I'd
> start here.

It's a pleasure to receive new drivers.
Welcome here :)

-- 
Thomas

       reply	other threads:[~2014-08-30 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <B1E02754DD4D4F4EAC7A14C1202CE62073E8E330@ORSMSX102.amr.corp.intel.com>
2014-08-30 13:03 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-08-31  8:27   ` Alex Markuze
     [not found]     ` <B1E02754DD4D4F4EAC7A14C1202CE62073E8E8C7@ORSMSX102.amr.corp.intel.com>
2014-09-03 10:03       ` Neil Horman
2014-09-19  0:13         ` Saygin, Artur
2014-09-19 10:18           ` Neil Horman
2014-09-02 13:47 ` Neil Horman

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