[dpdk-dev] MAC address in KNI

2014-03-20 Thread Carlos Franco
Hello I am working with KNI and I can send packets in both directions. But there are a couple of things that I don?t know how to do: - I have read in the documentation that the MAC address can be the real one. But I am getting always a random one. I am setting the addr and id fields in the str

[dpdk-dev] Setting up hugepage memory failed when there is a java process also using hugepages

2014-03-11 Thread Carlos Franco
Hello I am having some rare problem with hugepages. I am running DPDK 1.5.1 in CenOS 6.4. Everything is running smothly and we have done quite good progress integrating DPDK into our solution. But sometimes, there is an error with the init of the huge pages. The problem is when there is another

[dpdk-dev] Preemption in rings

2014-01-18 Thread Carlos Franco
Hello I have read the documentation and the answer of Olivier about a question to clarify the preemption restriction in the rings. He wrote: - a pthread doing multi-producers enqueues on a given ring must not be preempted by another pthread doing a multi-producer enqueue on the same ring. -

[dpdk-dev] DPDK on Ivy Bridge processors

2013-12-27 Thread Carlos Franco
Hi We are starting to integrate DPDK into our packet processing products and are going to buy some servers. We are thinking on processors from the Xeon E5 v2 series (2609v2) and Intel NIC with the i350 and 82580 controllers. I have seen that the NIC cards use igb driver and are supported in DPD