On 1/13/2017 11:49 PM, JOSHI, KAUSTUBH (KAUSTUBH) wrote: > John, > > Thanks for comments. To answer a specific question you raised: > >> Open question for me on this though is the PF in these SRIOV cases >> ever being used by DPDK datapath or is it just being leveraged for >> configuration with primarily control traffic? > > In our case, the answer is yes. We intend to use the PF through DPDK to house > a high speed packet mirror function for capturing packet traces from VFs (for > ops etc). > > However, in theory, this *can* be done through an extra VF as well, so I > didn't bring up that particular point as being a deciding factor in this > debate.
Is it valid use case to run DPDK enabled virtual switch on PF? I believe this is something you can't move to an extra VF? > >> On Jan 13, 2017, at 6:04 PM, John Fastabend <john.fastab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Open question for me on this though is the PF in these SRIOV cases >> ever being used by DPDK datapath or is it just being leveraged for >> configuration with primarily control traffic?
