Hi Christian,

As mentioned in my previous email, we want to give Intel based ( 10G ) for
the our packet processing so we need dpdk. With dpdk being there i was
trying to explore if we can run in non-previlege mode ...

Thanks,
Regards,
Venu

On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 at 13:49, Christian Hopps <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Venumadhav Josyula <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hi Damien,
> >
> >>I’m asking because in vpp we have also native
> >> drivers for some NICs and paravirtualized >devices, and those
> >> drivers are working in the >non-priv mode.
>
> > You mean to say native NICs  para virtualized drivers ??? If yes can
> > share details.
>
> What HW are you using is what he's asking. You may not need DPDK at all,
> in which case you do not need to run vpp privileged.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.
>
> > So are you also implying that it might not be possible to run vpp
> > with dpdk in non-previlege mode ?, Which would be mean that that pod
> > need to have previlege mode
> >
> > Thanks
> > Regards
> > Venu
> >
> > On Fri, 18 Jun, 2021, 12:52 pm Damjan Marion, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     I’m asking because in vpp we have also native drivers for some
> >     NICs and paravirtualized devices, and those drivers are working
> >     in the non-priv mode.
> >
> >     —
> >     Damjan
> >
> >     On 18.06.2021., at 09:12, Venumadhav Josyula <[email protected]>
> >     wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >         Hi Damjan,
> >
> >         We need dpdk, the reason being that packets from the NICs (
> >         pollmode ) need to come inside our packet processing sw (
> >         GTPU). So we wanted to use dpdk for the same. Now we wanted
> >         to know the pod in which vpp is running in non-previleged
> >         mode.
> >
> >         Now we have questions
> >         i) is it possible ?
> >         ii) if yes how ?
> >         Now we were looking at below link for examples, but no
> >         luck... they non-previleged running vpp + dpdk had some
> >         problems.
> >         https://github.com/cncf/cnf-testbed/issues/291
> >
> >         Hence i am trying to check in the community.
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >         Regards,
> >         Venu
> >
> >
> >         On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 at 12:20, Damjan Marion <[email protected]>
> >         wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >             Why do you need dpdk?
> >
> >             —
> >             Damjan
> >
> >
> >                 On 18.06.2021., at 06:47, Venumadhav Josyula <
> >                 [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >                 Hi Christian,
> >
> >                 Can you please share the exact steps please ?
> >
> >                 Thanks,
> >                 Regards,
> >                 Venu
> >
> >                 On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 at 21:25, Christian Hopps <
> >                 [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >                     "Venumadhav Josyula" <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >                     > Hi All,
> >                     >
> >                     > Can you run vpp + dpdk in non-privileged mode ?
> >                     This vpp running
> >                     > inside pod as a cnf
> >
> >                     I did this at one point, IIRC I had to disable
> >                     something small bit of code in the
> >                     dpdk_early_init that required root, but as this
> >                     code was only required to do something directly
> >                     with the HW later, it wasn't needed in the
> >                     container/virtual case.
> >
> >                     Thanks,
> >                     Chris.
> >
> >                     >
> >                     > Thanks,
> >                     > Regards,
> >                     > Venu
> >                     >
> >                     >
> >                     >
> >                     >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         
> >
> >
>
>
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