> -----Original Message----- > From: discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gayathri > Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 5:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ovs-discuss] Fwd: Run dpdk application in a VM > > Hi *, > > I am new to dpdk please do help me. > > My setup has a host with dpdk-ovs, with VMs connected to it. We need to run > dpdk applications on these VMs. The host dpdk is built for x86_64-native- > linuxapp-gcc. Please advice if we should be using x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc > instead.
Native is fine in the host. If you want to use dpdkr ports to the guest, then dpdk in the guest will have to have be built with ivshmem. Probably config will be simpler if you use vhost-user. Is there a reason you want to use dpdkr/ivshmem? > > Could somebody share with me the steps to install x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc > based dpdk-ovs in the host/guest. Apart from the below two configs, are there > any more details involved plz suggest > export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc > make install T=x86_64-ivshmem-linuxapp-gcc There's information in the INSTALL.DPDK.md. There was a also a patch that provided a very long and extremely detailed explanation with different alternatives here http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-June/056586.html > > Also please let me know if the hugepages in the VM could be 2M pages or its > mandatory to have 1 Gb pages. > > Thanks in advance > Regards, > Gayathri _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
