On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 20:19 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi Luca > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:19:22AM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Azure VMs can get accelerated networking for DPDK applications via the > > NETVSC driver > > (https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoc.dpdk.org%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Fnetvsc.html&data=02%7C01%7CLuca.Boccassi%40microsoft.com%7C2998e0c850784d13c30a08d7ea0e6fc3%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637235220043586582&sdata=M9RKqbInMkIuWQ9%2Bz%2B4xuTYAS9K82OpGS6VfNs1OPe4%3D&reserved=0), > > but this > > requires enabling the Infiniband kernel modules. > > I have to say, I'm not so sure this is actually the same thing. This > linked documentation shows how to use DPDK on top of the netsvc device, > using uio_hv_generic. > > What you are talking about is using DPDK on the Mellanox card, which is > documented here: > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoc.dpdk.org%2Fguides%2Fnics%2Fmlx4.html&data=02%7C01%7CLuca.Boccassi%40microsoft.com%7C2998e0c850784d13c30a08d7ea0e6fc3%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637235220043586582&sdata=aqBuVo2vphxx67QGC0t%2BuzA21QY5mFV2iOXXbT1XWgo%3D&reserved=0 > https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fazure%2Fvirtual-network%2Fsetup-dpdk&data=02%7C01%7CLuca.Boccassi%40microsoft.com%7C2998e0c850784d13c30a08d7ea0e6fc3%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637235220043586582&sdata=99Hk0vPxVllZ%2FAgsQtZ2gcgYOyvQjSQdtvNTiU%2BCdmA%3D&reserved=0 > > This requires the following modules: > - mlx4_ib > - ib_uverbs > > Regards, > Bastian
Hi, Yes you are of course right - I _always_ confuse netvsc with vdev_netvsc! https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/vdev_netvsc.html -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
