From: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: Jez Higgins <jez@jezuk.co.uk>, "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>,
"olivier.matz@6wind.com" <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
"Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio" <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Running DPDK as non-root
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 18:37:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F1CFD0D3-7315-4C3B-ACF0-BDF49F0D10A2@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4313092.zcSIIfa3F0@xps13>
> On Jul 7, 2016, at 11:17 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> 2016-07-07 16:47, Jez Higgins:
>> Is it possible to get DPDK up and running as non-root - if so, can
>> anyone guide me to what I'm missing? Or should I be giving this up as a
>> bad job?
>
> You can try the --no-huge option.
> But most of drivers won't work without hugepage currently.
> A rework of the memory allocation is needed to make it work better.
Last time I looked DPDK must be run as root as the virtual to physical translation in the startup needs to be root, unless the no-huge option alters the requirement. As I understand the virtual to physical translation needing to be run a root is a Linux restriction. I do not know of any work arounds.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-07 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-07 15:47 Jez Higgins
2016-07-07 16:17 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-07-07 18:37 ` Wiles, Keith [this message]
2016-07-08 2:29 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-07-12 17:09 ` Adrien Mazarguil
2016-07-08 3:55 ` Singh, Satish 1. (Nokia - IN/Bangalore)
2016-07-08 5:01 ` Singh, Satish 1. (Nokia - IN/Bangalore)
2016-07-11 10:41 ` Jez Higgins
2016-08-19 18:16 John Ousterhout
2016-08-19 18:39 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-08-25 13:56 ` Vincent JARDIN
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