From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from BLU004-OMC4S29.hotmail.com (blu004-omc4s29.hotmail.com [65.55.111.168]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0CB8DB3 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 01:43:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from BLU179-W56 ([65.55.111.136]) by BLU004-OMC4S29.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.23008); Tue, 8 Sep 2015 16:43:39 -0700 X-TMN: [Tf8t3PJSZ+NMr6tnOb+DCRIqmdYagrbp] X-Originating-Email: [mansooraa@hotmail.com] Message-ID: From: Ale Mansoor To: "dev@dpdk.org" Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 23:43:38 +0000 Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Sep 2015 23:43:39.0651 (UTC) FILETIME=[30135D30:01D0EA90] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: [dpdk-dev] Recommended method of using DPDK inside a Vmware ESXi guest ? X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 23:43:40 -0000 Hi=2C=20 I am trying to use dpdk inside a Vmware 6.0 ESXi guest and see two possible= approaches to achieving this: Use vmxnet3-usermap with PMD Use igb_uio with SRIOV passthrough from ESXi h= ost to guest My guest systems are either Fedora Linux FC20 or Ubuntu 15.04 instances wit= h 8 vCpu's and 8 Gigs of memory.=20 When using l2fwd example using igb_uio=2C the performance numbers I got wer= e very low (<100 PPS) and when I tried using vmxnet3-usermap from dpdk.org= =2C it does not even seem to compile under the Linux 3.x Kernel. My system is a HP DL380 G8 platform with dual Xeon 2670 CPU's and 64 Gb phy= sical memory and Intel 82599 NIC card running ESXi 6.0 Do I need to enable any additional Kernel build or boot options=2C based on= some posts here=2C appears ESXi does not have emulated IOMMU. Thanks in advance for your help. -Ale Mansoor =