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From: "Gray, Mark D" <mark.d.gray@intel.com>
To: "Shah, Rahul R" <rahul.r.shah@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
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>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I want to run dpdk l2fwd-ivshmem application. I could not find any
> documentation on it. While digging the forum I found that I need to have
> memnic-pmd installed(http://dpdk.org/doc/memnic-pmd) . But I am not
> sure where do I download memnic-pmd. I am using dpdk-1.7.1
>=20
> Can anyone please tell me what are steps for running ivshmem application.
>=20
Hi Rahul, I don't think memnic works with this ivshmem. To see examples
of how to use ivshmem, you could look at DPDK vSwitch=20

https://github.com/01org/dpdk-ovs

Is there no documentation for l2fwd-ivshmem in the DPDK documentation?

> Rahul Shah
> Software Engineer - CID/CSIG/DCG
> Intel Corporation
> Email: rahul.r.shah@intel.com<mailto:rahul.r.shah@intel.com>