On 13/10/2015 18:36, Mcnamara, John wrote: > * Should DPDK applications be running as root > > - Clearly not a great option. > > - Currently required due to kernel.
It is not 100% accurate. With some systems, it shall be possible to run DPDK application without running them as root. It was commented that there is a solution when PMDs are designed differently (verbs API => memory registration of users). Moreover, it would ease the cleanup of resources when a DPDK application does a segfault.
