[ovs-discuss] ovs/dpdk/mellanox

Chandrasekar Kannan ckannan at iix.net
Tue Dec 15 15:30:51 UTC 2015


I have tried that. But it doesn't work.

OVS/DPDK has a shared library requirement which mlx4 doesn't support yet.
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/drivers/net/mlx4/Makefile?id=113c8e13c4201eee207723571f83aaf285277d75



On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Chandran, Sugesh <sugesh.chandran at intel.com
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> This must be possible provided that DPDK poll mode driver available for
> mellanox NICs too. But I haven’t tried out DPDK with mellanox NICs.
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> You have to compile the DPDK library from ‘http://www.dpdk.org/’ and bind
> the NIC to the DPDK driver.
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> The ‘INSTALL.DPDK.md’ in the openvswitch repo will be good place to start.
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> *Regards*
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> *_Sugesh*
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> *From:* discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *Chandrasekar
> Kannan
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 15, 2015 5:10 AM
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> *Subject:* [ovs-discuss] ovs/dpdk/mellanox
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> Has anyone here been able to use openvswitch/dpdk with a mellanox
> connectx-3 card ?
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