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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Hui Ling <kelvin.brookletling@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Bainbridge <andbain@microsoft.com>,
	"users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK mlx4 PMD on Azure VM
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 07:42:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180108074228.515774ea@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPNMKd4vpeeDbeNs=bWbrf9Hs1P0TaTVCduxscTabptYNQhp8w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:01:09 +0800
Hui Ling <kelvin.brookletling@gmail.com> wrote:

> Stephen,
> 
> My last VM (DS3 v2, with 4 cores and 16GB memory) is in Canada East
> and I got AN enabled on my subscription so AN worked just fine.
> 
> For DPDK, I saw from your slides in DPDK submit last year saying
> current DPDK solution in Azure needs:
> 
> 1) Linux kerlnel 4.14

You need transparent bonding support which is in kernel netvsc driver.
It has been backported to Ubuntu Azure (4.13) package, RHEL 7 and SLES.



> 2) 8 cores
> 
> I am not sure if these are must. I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu to 4.14,
> but then I ran into compilation issues with DPDK 17.11 for MLX4 PMD.
> So I stayed with older version of kernel for Ubuntu 16.04.
> With my config of VM, however, I could not get the failsafe.sh I got
> from MS for azure to work.

The number of cores requirement has been dropped, think it is available
with 4 now.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-08 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-19  7:14 Hui Ling
2017-12-19 15:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-19 16:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-19 16:29   ` Ophir Munk
2017-12-20  2:00     ` Hui Ling
2017-12-20 13:39       ` Andrew Bainbridge
2017-12-21  7:35         ` Hui Ling
2018-01-02  4:27           ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-05 20:45             ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-08  3:01               ` Hui Ling
2018-01-08 15:42                 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-04-10  8:40                   ` Hui Ling
2018-04-13 12:47                     ` Andrew Bainbridge
2018-04-13 14:50                       ` Hui Ling

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