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Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] KNI Threads/Cores
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On 6/8/2016 8:48 PM, Cliff Burdick wrote:
> Hi Yigit, when you say "I guess it's possible" is that not common? I
> would think that the amount of traffic people would want to forward to
> Linux for normal DPDK applications would be quite small. If you had to
> have a core dedicated for KNI on each interface that would get very
> wasteful.
> 

Hi Cliff,

I am not aware of any similar usage or I didn't test myself, but
according source code, it should work as described for what you request.

Regards,
ferruh