Hi Stephen, Can you please advise on your experience of the kind of data rates you have been able to achieve with vmxnet3. Also did you have to do any special optimizations at the vmnic of ESXi for the above, kindly let me know.
Regards -Prashant -----Original Message----- From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Prashant Upadhyaya Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:57 AM To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: dev at dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Which vmxnet3 pmd is to be used in dpdk 1.6.x? Hi Stephen, This is great news ! I can wait for a formal release of DPDK with your driver. Please let me know when is the release expected. I will happily migrate to that. Regards -Prashant -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:step...@networkplumber.org] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 9:21 PM To: Prashant Upadhyaya Cc: Srinivasan J; dev at dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Which vmxnet3 pmd is to be used in dpdk 1.6.x? On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:30:48 +0530 Prashant Upadhyaya <prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com> wrote: > Hi Srini, > > Thanks, I could also make it work, thanks to your cue ! > > Now then, this multi-segment not being supported in vmxnet3 driver is a big > party-pooper for me. Unfortunately in my usecase, I do indeed make heavy use > of multisegment buffers for sending out the data, so my usecase has failed > and I will have to fix that. > > Also, can you please adivse how much is the max data rates you have been able > to achieve with one vmxnet3 10G port. > > Thanks a lot for the advice once again. > > Regards > -Prashant I am integrating our driver with the 1.6.1 DPDK driver. We support multi-segment, if you want I will backport that feature first. =============================================================================== Please refer to http://www.aricent.com/legal/email_disclaimer.html for important disclosures regarding this electronic communication. =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Please refer to http://www.aricent.com/legal/email_disclaimer.html for important disclosures regarding this electronic communication. ===============================================================================
