Hello, I would say the main advantage is the fact that vmxnet3-usermap does not require uio.
Regards, -- David Marchand On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Srinivasan J <srinidpdk at gmail.com> wrote: > I want to try dpdk with vmxnet3 in Vmware Esxi 5.1. I see that the > latest dpdk 1.6.0r1 includes a vmxnet3 pmd. The > vmxnet3-usermap-1.1.tar.gz as well includes a vmxnet3 pmd driver. > > I'm confused as to which vmxnet3 pmd driver to use along with which > vmxnet3 kernel driver (vmxnet3 native kernel driver or vmxnet3-usermap > kernel driver). I also want to try RSS with vmxnet3 and dpdk. As per > Intel DPDK Programmer's Guide (January 2014) RSS is supported with > vmxnet3 since dpdk version 1.6.0. > > Thanks, > Srini >
