[dpdk-dev] Poor SRIOV performance with ESXi Linux guest

Getting less than 100 packets per second throughput between VF's under my Fedora FC20 VM running under ESXi 6.0 with DPDK l2fwd (Used as ./l2fwd -c 0xf -n 4 -- -p 0x3 -T 1) Questions: --- Q1) Is DPDK + SRIOV under ESXi supposed to use the igb_uio driver or the vfio-pci driver insi

[dpdk-dev] Poor SRIOV performance with ESXi Linux guest

x guest > > On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 22:18:27 + > Ale Mansoor wrote: > > > Getting less than 100 packets per second throughput between VF's under my > > Fedora FC20 VM running under ESXi 6.0 with DPDK l2fwd (Used as ./l2fwd -c > > 0xf -n 4 -- -p 0x3 -T

[dpdk-dev] vmxnet2-usermap kmod compile errors with ubuntu 15.04

Downloaded the latest vmxnet3-usermap package (ver 1.2) from dpdk.org, tried compiling it under an Ubuntu VM but it fails to compile, is there a newer version of this driver available from somewhere that will compile correctly under Ubuntu 15.04 ? The kernel (Ubuntu 15.04) "uname -a" ===> Linux

[dpdk-dev] Recommended method of using DPDK inside a Vmware ESXi guest ?

7;s and 64 Gb physical memory and Intel 82599 NIC card running ESXi 6.0 Do I need to enable any additional Kernel build or boot options, based on some posts here, appears ESXi does not have emulated IOMMU. Thanks in advance for your help. -Ale Mansoor

[dpdk-dev] Splitting fast-path between two processes

Hi, I have been using DPDK (under 2.1) with a single DPDK fastpath process, however now I want to interface with another legacy user-space application that is able to accept ethernet packets, what is the recommended/best performance approach to relay/share packets back-forth between my DPDK appl