From: Vladimir Medvedkin <medvedkinv@gmail.com>
To: "Sujith Sankar (ssujith)" <ssujith@cisco.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Questions on use of multiple NIC interfaces
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:43:19 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANDrEHkbYdFNeA4pg9JQt-sf-02UbSH4auvgCeChm=BFq26kEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF5B3DE5.15605%ssujith@cisco.com>
1. Yes.
2. Yes. Look at programmer's guide section 16 Multi-process support.
3. You can use blacklist eal option.
Regards,
Vladimir
2014-03-28 13:25 GMT+04:00 Sujith Sankar (ssujith) <ssujith@cisco.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> Could someone answer the following questions about the usage of multiple
> NIC interfaces with DPDK?
>
> 1. If my server has two identical Intel NICs, could I use both with DPDK
> and its applications?
> 2. If both the NIC cards could be used with DPDK, could I use them with
> separate instances of applications? E.g., NIC1 used by App1 and NIC2 used
> by App2.
> 3. If answer to qn no 2 is yes, does the driver take care to avoid
> reinitialising NIC1 when App2 tries to initialise NIC2? From what I've
> seen, DPDK calls the driver init for all the matching devices (vendor id
> and device id).
>
> Thanks,
> -Sujith
>
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2014-03-28 9:25 Sujith Sankar (ssujith)
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2014-03-28 10:02 ` Sujith Sankar (ssujith)
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