From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f195.google.com (mail-pf0-f195.google.com [209.85.192.195]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B821B1B2 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2018 16:42:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pf0-f195.google.com with SMTP id u19so6182757pfa.12 for ; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 07:42:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nEyOZNpkYevi+4nb2qkyeWhpT+JbGXcg2nN8Qto+gfw=; b=dIeg4yPBFX+QgBonwOjuBRjgaUFXAGfJuviD8cjDWF1ky1kDGTuV21fZsYSUEE4L7n qc+Uga/WaTwgm3PIHbqCq+uTvowVpiowXKZwr4c7QHV4cEHWBB7ciNIVHz/FOCNf/dSZ E9UYx5C2hgJWxLipaVUwturpk38dq7/yz1JuplL2lsymWsgfNgnceAnCbTrhizcm4y/0 es6BRusYYB/DopweeTyX36bk8gwnupUC9wglgaLMLkMLO4ZHNJJAIOZpNdr3wENKjijt jrsswa7u6ZVvVwVqD5TYMthIpn74EK579FtX2N5C1aPhM6PXbHM381wsi1w8tjdS5nbm hL7w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nEyOZNpkYevi+4nb2qkyeWhpT+JbGXcg2nN8Qto+gfw=; b=L+cta6cz/ad5K1MIMJMGblMFIR7dvpq+HnG2U6JNT9EtxEXV8C98G9D0w+BgCRsDrJ xt+VlZJ+IqDDHFO5Id9WxoUYT5d7rpzdUELWxfymD2Uf7Y22/J38AfLEDnLdYeSR0pnO cfz66yDKpe29/Bx/J9GQ5Kxne0B4xMqluClFJaCI6B6HgZ8hKRdOwEnx8VOX/aDYSx1+ 9NLeHoLyhNFwrNk/gL1lL8DdKSBI8lDxM5YEdWmt0A50lYoCxZ8rxYR1Pht7NNd1LCAc nIikuf2EOeZhWQjOknCpmHxVlQDFmEn9EgoVrfS6Tr0h05x9vGOANHrM4H2lFIumpHFZ OccQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mLm5XsDiAatwdNhcnxfgzV2BjiNU68SIvDv/ID99xSZP2q1vRuC UtcH0BXjQ1KO6Za2/biK8l/duA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBouA2vnOPcsa9AEhKFlWfh1ieW0jO46XXgoqv775MzFMlZPdJC2osqa5B0qHYBOnR26ElkciLg== X-Received: by 10.98.50.5 with SMTP id y5mr10968355pfy.60.1515426155063; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 07:42:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from xeon-e3 (204-195-18-133.wavecable.com. [204.195.18.133]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s184sm24630019pfb.9.2018.01.08.07.42.34 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 08 Jan 2018 07:42:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 07:42:28 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Hui Ling Cc: Andrew Bainbridge , "users@dpdk.org" Message-ID: <20180108074228.515774ea@xeon-e3> In-Reply-To: References: <2151087.Q62u2efIDs@xps> <20180101202732.6423d6b9@xeon-e3> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK mlx4 PMD on Azure VM X-BeenThere: users@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK usage discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:42:36 -0000 On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:01:09 +0800 Hui Ling 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.