Hi Nikhil, Can i say that NIC's are not standardized to work in same way, rather PCI to discover its capabilities are standardized?
Thanks Raman On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Nikhil Nanal <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
