Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK on EC2?

["Patel, Rashmin N" <rashmin.n.patel@intel.com>]

Just curious - I didn't understand the usage model here. In the Amazon EC2 instance (a VM,) do you want to run a DPDK application? Where do you intend to run OVS? 

As far I remember, OVS has a datapath in Host kernel and you won't be given Host access by AWS. And I'm not sure if Amazon provides an OVS instance, but in case if they don't have an offering, you have to put your OVS installation in another VM (virtualizing network function) and bounce the traffic back to your VM(s.)

As far as Amazon Advanced Networking is concerned, you get a dedicated slice (an SRIOV Virtual Function) of a NIC in your VM, where a Physical Function Driver running in the Host (Amazon VMM-Xen I think) controls all the filtering configuration privileges.

Thanks,
Rashmin

-----Original Message-----
From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Andre Richter
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 2:27 PM
To: Jeff Wang; dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK on EC2?

Be sure to get an instance with SR-IOV, which is "enhanced networking" in Amazon speak.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html

Cheers Andre
Jeff Wang <fatjeffw@gmail.com> schrieb am Mo., 16. März 2015 um 21:08:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to deploy DPDK and ovs on an AWS EC2 instance which is 
> running CentOS 7.
>
> Has anybody had tried to do this? How to bind a NIC to dpdk while it 
> shows no NICs when I do lspci?
>
> Thanks!
>