Hi Shlomi, Currently DPDK supports most of Intel 1Gb and 10Gb NICs. The exact list can be found at lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_dev_ids.h
The reason is the the DPDK includes a poll mode driver and for a different NIC you might need a different poll mode driver. Regards, Daniel Kaminsky On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM, TSADOK, Shlomi (Shlomi) < shlomi.tsadok at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote: > Hello > > A quick general question: > > Is there a requirement for using a specific NIC/Chipset for DPDK or any > NIC will do? > > If there's such a requirement, why is that? Are the're any hardware > optimizations etc. in DPDK enabled NICs? > > Thanks > > Shlomi > > > >
