[dpdk-dev] Why rte_snprintf at all?

2014-06-23 Thread Rogers, Gerald
Bruce, Stephen, It may be a duplicate, but people are likely using it. I would assume deprecate means don?t remove, but put in a comment that says please don?t use and migrate your code away from it. Thanks, Gerald On 6/23/14, 3:18 PM, "Richardson, Bruce" wrote: >> -Original Message-

[dpdk-dev] RTE Ring removing

2014-05-07 Thread Rogers, Gerald
Venky, This also applies to mbuf pools. Inside of the openvswitch.org patches we allocate mbuf pools for a port, but we are unable to free them back when the port is removed. One other request (maybe it is there, and I?m unaware), is the ability to dynamically add / remove a physical port to DPD

[dpdk-dev] Using DPDK in a multiprocess environment

2014-04-08 Thread Rogers, Gerald
Etai, If this doesn?t work, then you will need to change the virtual address range that is used by DPDK. By default this is set dynamically, however; with DPDK 1.6you can change it to any region in the virtual address space you want. The problem you have is what you stated, the secondary process

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Support for the i217 ?

2014-01-30 Thread Rogers, Gerald
Palin, Support for the i217 will be available in the Intel DPDK version 1.7. I?m not sure of the timeline, but next release. Gerald On 1/30/14, 10:59 AM, "Palin, Francois" wrote: >Hi all, > >We would like to know if DPDK support for the i217 will be provided >anytime soon. >The Supported NICs

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] dpif-netdev: Add support Intel DPDK based ports.

2014-01-30 Thread Rogers, Gerald
Prashant, IVShm is supported by the Intel DPDK client rings, and a patched QEMU/KVM from the OVDK work on 01.org (https://01.org/packet-processing). The main part being the patched QEMU/KVM to map the Intel DPDK Huge Page Tables (with Release of Intel DPDK 1.6 the requirement to map 1 GB huge pag