The following might be interesting to you. https://speakerdeck.com/multicorenz/bare-metal-multicore-performance-in-a-general-purpose-operating-system
It describes recent work to get kernel out of the way. On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Adeel Amin <adeel_amin at hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me that how I can run a DPDK application as a bare-metal > (i.e. without Linux support). I've tried to run rump kernel TCP/IP stack by > Antti Kantee but I'm unable to figure out that how I'll be using it to run > stand alone on x86 CPU. Currently I'm running the rump kernel as a Linux > application. > > Thank you. > > Adeel Amin > Email: adeel_amin at hotmail.com >