From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from jaguar.aricent.com (jaguar.aricent.com [180.151.2.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA7858EB for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:11:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from jaguar.aricent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss71 (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9C136B32; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:42:30 +0530 (IST) Received: from GUREXHT02.ASIAN.AD.ARICENT.COM (gurexht02.asian.ad.aricent.com [10.203.171.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jaguar.aricent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C493D36B3A; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:42:30 +0530 (IST) Received: from GUREXMB01.asian.ad.aricent.com ([10.203.171.134]) by GUREXHT02.ASIAN.AD.ARICENT.COM ([10.203.171.138]) with mapi; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:42:31 +0530 From: Prashant Upadhyaya To: Daniel Kan , "dev@dpdk.org" Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:42:26 +0530 Thread-Topic: [dpdk-dev] Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications: CentOS or Debian Thread-Index: Ac8dlZB2OLY1RkXLQe6EqkLbVDK19gADdIsw Message-ID: References: <886FB96F-B46C-4129-A609-D80E5D1B2B5E@nyansa.com> In-Reply-To: <886FB96F-B46C-4129-A609-D80E5D1B2B5E@nyansa.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-TM-AS-MML: No Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications: CentOS or Debian 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: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:11:33 -0000 Hi Dan, Intel DPDK release notes(1.5.2) mention the following tested OS -- * Fedora release 18 * Ubuntu* 12.04 LTS * Wind River* Linux* 5 * Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 6.3 * SUSE Enterprise Linux* 11 SP2 I have personally used Fedora 18 and it works fine for me for virtualizatio= n including SRIOV and pass through as well as virtio with KNI backend. So I am tending to stick to Fedora 18. I don't know why is CentOS not tested and mentioned in release notes. Regards -Prashant -----Original Message----- From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Kan Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:01 PM To: dev@dpdk.org Subject: [dpdk-dev] Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications: Cen= tOS or Debian I'm deciding between Debian 7.3 (3.2.0 kernel) and CentOS 6.5 (2.6.32 kerne= l) for production. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendation. We run the D= PDK application in a virtualized environment. Currently, we configure NICs = in pass-through mode which gives the best performance. In the future, we pl= an to use DPDK with paravirtualized nics (eg. vmxnet3-usermap). Thanks. Dan =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D Please refer to http://www.aricent.com/legal/email_disclaimer.html for important disclosures regarding this electronic communication. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D