From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
To: Srinivasan J <srinidpdk@gmail.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Which vmxnet3 pmd is to be used in dpdk 1.6.x?
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:55:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALwxeUspfqMLBqGxTEx-V7CZN6Z727qOb0Tre7ND2HepUpkJcA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEbeQ+q2qZkufmZrHXd2r_JTq2wL-0=xm5-9ngqfqPqq8_A0eQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
I would say the main advantage is the fact that vmxnet3-usermap does not
require uio.
Regards,
--
David Marchand
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Srinivasan J <srinidpdk@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to try dpdk with vmxnet3 in Vmware Esxi 5.1. I see that the
> latest dpdk 1.6.0r1 includes a vmxnet3 pmd. The
> vmxnet3-usermap-1.1.tar.gz as well includes a vmxnet3 pmd driver.
>
> I'm confused as to which vmxnet3 pmd driver to use along with which
> vmxnet3 kernel driver (vmxnet3 native kernel driver or vmxnet3-usermap
> kernel driver). I also want to try RSS with vmxnet3 and dpdk. As per
> Intel DPDK Programmer's Guide (January 2014) RSS is supported with
> vmxnet3 since dpdk version 1.6.0.
>
> Thanks,
> Srini
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-05 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-04 15:23 Srinivasan J
2014-03-05 14:28 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-03-05 15:10 ` David Marchand
2014-03-05 15:30 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-03-06 6:50 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-03-06 7:18 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-03-07 3:38 ` Srinivasan J
2014-03-07 5:13 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-03-08 19:08 ` Srinivasan J
2014-03-10 8:00 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-03-10 10:54 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-03-10 15:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-03-11 5:27 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-03-11 8:52 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-03-21 8:11 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-05-06 5:48 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2014-03-11 5:33 ` [dpdk-dev] On vmxnet-pmd crash in DPDK 1.6.0r1 Daniel Kan
2014-03-11 6:20 ` Daniel Kan
2014-03-11 6:29 ` Daniel Kan
2014-03-21 14:10 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-03-05 14:55 ` David Marchand [this message]
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