From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: Running DPDK with Docker Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:41:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20150401114159.5aabb5fb@urahara> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" To: Karmarkar Suyash Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 17:56:56 +0000 Karmarkar Suyash wrote: > Hi, > > Given the popularity of Docker it would be nice if we can run DPDK inside a Docker container but the challenge is the igb_uio.ko and rte_kni.ko kernel modules which need to be compiled with the exact kernel source running on the host. Are there ways to seamlessly run DPDK with Docker? I came across an articles about running DPDK with Linux container but still the requirement is to insert igb_uio. Any plans to make the igb_uio and rte_kni modules as default modules of Linux source code or any other better approaches/suggestions ? Thanks. > > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-October/006373.html > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.networking.dpdk.devel/6479 igb_uio and rte_kni are unlikely to be accepted upstream since they have intrinsic security problems. Can you use VFIO?