Re: [vpp-dev] [deb-dpdk] igb_uio -> uio_pci_generic

2017-01-27 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
and get a new security update - fine your extra module will automatically be re-built for you and work - yeah. That is e.g. what we do for the out-of-tree igb_uio module (to get it a bit back to topic) - see https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=deb_dpdk.git;a=blob;f=debian/dpdk

Re: [vpp-dev] [deb-dpdk] igb_uio -> uio_pci_generic

2017-01-26 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
eneric does not support MSI or MSI-X interrupts, only legacy >>> INTX. >>> > >>> > I know but do we really care? >>> > >>> >> >>> >> The preference should always be to use VFIO. Even on systems without

Re: [vpp-dev] [Rpm_dpdk] [deb-dpdk] MLX5 support in VPP

2016-12-02 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
=/path/to/config"), so the same package > could be just rebuilt with a different config. > > Would this work for you? > Using that plus self-fetched MLNX OFED Libs is the smallest hurdle to take when building for oneself. -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Ca

Re: [vpp-dev] [Rpm_dpdk] MLX5 support in VPP

2016-12-01 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
be fine - get your MLX_OFED and build it. But for enabling by default in Distributions we would require them to be compatible with the public open libibverbs - which means either slow down dpdk-mlx devel to use what is there or speed up libibverbs contributions which neither of us can control.