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From: Daniel Kaminsky <daniel.kaminsky@infinitelocality.com>
To: "TSADOK, Shlomi (Shlomi)" <shlomi.tsadok@alcatel-lucent.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Specific NIC for DPDK?
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:31:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+8v-JxpMrwwD3O4VZ+gE=cvMyKcy9QGSZhZGK2o+mW9YLjnFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70ED7DF10DA6754880C553B2CD6E25230AB45B@FR712WXCHMBA13.zeu.alcatel-lucent.com>

Hi Shlomi,

Currently DPDK supports most of Intel 1Gb and 10Gb NICs. The exact list can
be found at lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_dev_ids.h

The reason is the the DPDK includes a poll mode driver and for a different
NIC you might need a different poll mode driver.

Regards,
Daniel Kaminsky


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM, TSADOK, Shlomi (Shlomi) <
shlomi.tsadok@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> A quick general question:
>
> Is there a requirement for using a specific NIC/Chipset for DPDK or any
> NIC will do?
>
> If there's such a requirement, why is that? Are the're any hardware
> optimizations etc. in DPDK enabled NICs?
>
> Thanks
>
> Shlomi
>
>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-06 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-06 12:05 TSADOK, Shlomi (Shlomi)
2014-01-06 13:31 ` Daniel Kaminsky [this message]
2014-01-06 15:38   ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-01-06 15:41     ` TSADOK, Shlomi (Shlomi)
2014-01-06 16:04       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-01-06 16:23       ` St Leger, Jim
2014-01-06 16:25         ` TSADOK, Shlomi (Shlomi)

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