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.
next prev 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
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2015-10-08 16:38 Thomas Herbert
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