From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pb0-x22a.google.com (mail-pb0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22a]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F2958EB for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:38:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pb0-f42.google.com with SMTP id jt11so3545314pbb.1 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:39:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=LkAAWzmVinGbfPg6NMTeDo8trHz2ZM9HcxI4YTHi/10=; b=iowE7tF39C30fHR1xBfoP6lpF9y5goCVMiZdzW04/cs6x0eFGi+PooZyoveX68Wjtv q04Rtwj7G0nY7PM+uj6A83DMWMwsatnESJKemUWUcjIzllqGadb/p6IuGhRQ7ApFiC3H IUEV9I593NHfxG6yPb1bR5ejIjSva5Emc3FG22fvBeIYZAaNhC/8Zt3/nxay8yJvASJf vWr9i1NlWxS0j4a1LCczSpD6Kn7GGPBfKE1UpxoOKkyYS4V25p+5uQdjMeRrlg/Yv/Ha I3B2h8IcWX8l+xwvt7xiahpSgBSSSXW+eMYt9Kd5vYEE2i1OPLrle4Xjb5JosYahokRk q2YQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.231.5 with SMTP id tc5mr16250905pbc.154.1391110770236; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:39:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.47.37 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:39:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <21607DF1-D798-41C1-B5E7-E9CC6CE53B4C@nyansa.com> References: <886FB96F-B46C-4129-A609-D80E5D1B2B5E@nyansa.com> <21607DF1-D798-41C1-B5E7-E9CC6CE53B4C@nyansa.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:39:30 -0800 Message-ID: From: Selvaganapathy Chidambaram To: Daniel Kan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" 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 19:38:12 -0000 Hi Daniel, virtio-net-pmd (dpdk-1.5) works on CentOS 6.x . Just verified basic packet flow with one queue. Thanks, Selvaganapathy.C. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Kan wrote: > Thanks for the all the feedbacks. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has 3.8.x kernel and > Fedcore 18 has 3.10.x kernel. Both kernels are not compatible with the > vmxnet-usermap driver which supports only up to 3.2.x. virtio-net-pmd > requires kernel 3.8.x and qemu 1.5 for multi-queue support. Since CentOS's > kernel is on its own path, I'm wondering if anyone has any issue with > virtio-net-pmd on CentOS 6.x. > > Prashant, CentOS is essentially the same as RHEL 6.3 minus the support. > > Dan > > On Jan 30, 2014, at 6:06 AM, Hamed khanmirza wrote: > > > Hi Dan, > > > > We are also using Debian 7.3, from the DPDK v1.3.1 up to version 1.5.1r1. > > it works completely fine. > > > > regards, > > - Hamed > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Daniel Kaminsky < > > daniel.kaminsky@infinitelocality.com> wrote: > > > >> We're using CentOS 6.5 and Ubuntu 12.04 and don't see any issue with > both > >> of them. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Daniel Kaminsky > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Prashant Upadhyaya < > >> prashant.upadhyaya@aricent.com> wrote: > >> > >>> 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 > >>> virtualization 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: > >>> CentOS or Debian > >>> > >>> I'm deciding between Debian 7.3 (3.2.0 kernel) and CentOS 6.5 (2.6.32 > >>> kernel) for production. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendation. We > >> run > >>> the DPDK application in a virtualized environment. Currently, we > >> configure > >>> NICs in pass-through mode which gives the best performance. In the > >> future, > >>> we plan to use DPDK with paravirtualized nics (eg. vmxnet3-usermap). > >> Thanks. > >>> > >>> Dan > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > =============================================================================== > >>> Please refer to http://www.aricent.com/legal/email_disclaimer.html > >>> for important disclosures regarding this electronic communication. > >>> > >>> > >> > =============================================================================== > >>> > >> > >