From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com (mail-wi0-f170.google.com [209.85.212.170]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A2E9A9F for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:21:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by wibdy8 with SMTP id dy8so66105829wib.0 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:21:59 -0700 (PDT) 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=BUEYQtQpR8gIdSmy+ANI/MyAhCQ4QjymO68qUhxKRwM=; b=ojUq9cjPkVIGkbeDIcaARWD6LOat6SQ7RF76NYsRUPv33dSGbZMBS3rQdYpYAmAWwF r0nD5DztMEIjIcgNLOsKjV4MSUgQtobIBrM7238UR57nSX7OwY02silR7YVRfAwWxRw5 odbSWMgZwynZ0xXieAD0q2h0NZV9pvnd5dEhfljABIMPdUnyiS7afCRQ0mNCNM+p2Bvd ZMoIvaA/WAGivZpnYSPv08O0aqc3/7VNiuEc6FP8WyaGz2IYkNCrVuDvJd42mfJ2fNLx nlbZa/1UjAr7gm8BD5dLnFVozHrCA1zaNdusLaoGskP2xR+exib4ZAONBttaJROreMKn ybpw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.61.161 with SMTP id q1mr136526362wjr.132.1426605719090; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.27.220.23 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:21:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:21:59 -0600 Message-ID: From: Jeff Wang To: "Patel, Rashmin N" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK on EC2? 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, 17 Mar 2015 15:21:59 -0000 Thanks Andre and Rashmin! I'm trying to deploy this dpdk-ovs on EC2. https://github.com/01org/dpdk-ovs But the way it works on my own machine seems quite different with it does on the cloud. I'm still confused about the hardware virtualization on EC2. On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Patel, Rashmin N wrote: > Just curious - I didn't understand the usage model here. In the Amazon EC= 2 > instance (a VM,) do you want to run a DPDK application? Where do you inte= nd > 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 you= r > 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.ht= ml > > Cheers Andre > Jeff Wang schrieb am Mo., 16. M=C3=A4rz 2015 um 21:0= 8: > > > 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! > > >