From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Saygin, Artur" <artur.saygin@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK and custom memory
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:47:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140902134709.GD29416@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1E02754DD4D4F4EAC7A14C1202CE62073E8E330@ORSMSX102.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 06:40:08PM +0000, Saygin, Artur wrote:
> Hello DPDK experts,
>
> Imagine a PMD for an FPGA-based NIC that is limited to accessing certain memory regions <system, PCI, etc>. Is there a way to make DPDK use that exact memory?
>
> Perhaps this is more of a hugetlbfs question than DPDK but I thought I'd start here.
>
Theres no real custom memory need there. What you need access to is covered by
interface like vfio, which dpdk uses fairly regularly within its other hardware
pmds.
Neil
> Sincerely,
> Artur Saygin
>
>
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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
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 [this message]
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