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From: Yan Freedland <YanF@Radware.com>
To: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] working with VMXNET3 driver in a "NIC Connected to a vSwitch" setup on VMware
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:48:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CEFFBC011B3590479939EA0B9311D21526917247@ILMB1.corp.radware.com> (raw)


Hi

I am interested in working with VMXNET3 driver in a NIC - vSwitch fashion on VMware.

For that purpose I did the following:


1.       On my VMware VM I compiled the driver and loaded it as described in http://dpdk.org/doc/vmxnet3-usermap

2.       Using vSphere client I created 2 network adapters of VMXNET3 type and assigned a relevant port-group to allow a client-server connectivity later on.

My question is how should I pick and bind ports to the driver. Should I use dpdk_nic_bind.py script as I did with igb_uio ? if yes, how may I find the port addresses ?

Besides should I do something special in environment initialization (e.g. ports, memory, etc...) that I didn't do for virtio or ixgbe ?
For instance it looks logical to me to use vmxnet3-usermap in my commands (e.g. dpdk_nic_bind.py --bind= vmxnet3-usermap <port number>) instead of igb_uio but I don't really know how.

Thank you
Yan

             reply	other threads:[~2014-10-29 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-29 17:48 Yan Freedland [this message]
2014-10-30 15:16 ` Thomas Monjalon

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