[ovs-discuss] OVS DPDK and VFIO/UIO

[Chandran, Sugesh]

Regards
_Sugesh

From: ovs-discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org [mailto:ovs-discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Shivaram Mysore
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:54 AM
To: ovs-discuss at openvswitch.org
Subject: [ovs-discuss] OVS DPDK and VFIO/UIO

Hello,

If one is setting up a OVS Switch with DPDK on a Intel Server with Intel NICs on Ubuntu 16.10, they could just use the UIO drivers right?  Do they don't need VFIO configuration [1] correct?  Assume that they Intel Server here is mainly acting as a hardware soft-switch is not running any virtualization.

Am I correct in my understanding?

[1] http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/dpdk/
[Sugesh] Yes, You can use the only UIO drivers to make it work


Thanks

/Shivaram
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