Hi, I guess DPDK works only for Intel NICs. Also, there are a variety of NIC cards from Intel. The drivers are generally specific to a NIC card or a family of NIC cards. The DPDK, replaces the existing NIC drivers with its PMD drivers, , but these PMDs are only compatible with some specified class of Intel NIC cards and so there are only some supported NICs but not all.
thanks Nikhil > On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:05 PM, raman geetha gopalakrishnan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have the following basic question. Hope to get an answer / link where i > can get myself clear. > > 1. In DPDK PMD is optimized driver for an given NIC to get maximum > performance. > That being the case why we are talking about DPDK supported NICs. > > A) My assumption is that NIC interface is standardized so that PMD > should actually work with any NIC (barring some NIC specific performance > tweaks) > is that correct? > > B) if #A is correct , how can i make changes to PMD to support any NIC > ? > > > Thanks > Raman
