On 11/13/2015 01:48 PM, Montorsi, Francesco wrote: > Hi John, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mcnamara, John [mailto:john.mcnamara at intel.com] >> >> The Ubuntu dpdk package for 15.10 contains system scripts with functions for >> reserving hugepages and binding interfaces on bootup: >> >> >> /etc/dpdk/dpdk.conf >> /etc/dpdk/interfaces >> /etc/init.d/dpdk >> /lib/dpdk/dpdk-init >> /lib/systemd/system/dpdk.service >> /sbin/dpdk_nic_bind >> /usr/bin/testpmd >> /usr/share/doc/dpdk/README.Debian >> /usr/share/doc/dpdk/changelog.Debian.gz >> /usr/share/doc/dpdk/copyright >> /usr/share/dpdk/tools/cpu_layout.py >> /usr/share/dpdk/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py >> /usr/share/dpdk/tools/setup.sh >> /usr/share/python/runtime.d/dpdk.rtupdate >> >> http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/amd64/dpdk/filelist >> >> If you have the latest version of Ubuntu you can check that out or else >> download and extract the files from the .deb to see how they do it. >> > > This certainly looks very useful. I inspected the package and the > files you mentioned and indeed it looks like a good way to go, specially > if Ubuntu distribution is moving in that direction (hopefully other > distros will follow too). > > Thanks a lot!
The downside of the Ubuntu-approach is that the setup is fairly static and does not support automatically binding hotplugged devices, AFAICS. Whether that matters to your use-case is of course en entirely different question. - Panu - > Francesco > >