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From: Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>
To: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
	 Thomas F Herbert <therbert@redhat.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK User Space: Session onUseability and Ease of Use
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:21:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <561E56DE.7080803@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B27915DBBA3421428155699D51E4CFE202380B58@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 13/10/2015 18:36, Mcnamara, John wrote:
> * Should DPDK applications be running as root
>
>    - Clearly not a great option.
>
>    - Currently required due to kernel.

It is not 100% accurate. With some systems, it shall be possible to run 
DPDK application without running them as root.

It was commented that there is a solution when PMDs are designed 
differently (verbs API => memory registration of users). Moreover, it 
would ease the cleanup of resources when a DPDK application does a segfault.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-14 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-08 18:29 Thomas F Herbert
2015-10-13 16:36 ` Mcnamara, John
2015-10-13 20:06   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-14  6:51     ` Dave Neary
2015-10-14 13:16     ` Vincent JARDIN
2015-10-14 10:25   ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-14 13:21   ` Vincent JARDIN [this message]
2015-10-14 14:36   ` Vincent JARDIN
2015-10-14 16:34     ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-19 13:55   ` Simon Kågström
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-08 16:38 Thomas Herbert

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