<< igb_uio and rte_kni are unlikely to be accepted upstream since they have intrinsic security problems.
Can you use VFIO?>> Hi Stephen, Thanks for the reply. Can you please elaborate on the security issue?Thanks. Regards Suyash -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:step...@networkplumber.org] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 12:12 AM To: Karmarkar Suyash Cc: dev at dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Running DPDK with Docker On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 17:56:56 +0000 Karmarkar Suyash <skarmarkar at sonusnet.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Given the popularity of Docker it would be nice if we can run DPDK inside a > Docker container but the challenge is the igb_uio.ko and rte_kni.ko kernel > modules which need to be compiled with the exact kernel source running on the > host. Are there ways to seamlessly run DPDK with Docker? I came across an > articles about running DPDK with Linux container but still the requirement is > to insert igb_uio. Any plans to make the igb_uio and rte_kni modules as > default modules of Linux source code or any other better > approaches/suggestions ? Thanks. > > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-October/006373.html > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.networking.dpdk.devel/6479 igb_uio and rte_kni are unlikely to be accepted upstream since they have intrinsic security problems. Can you use VFIO?
