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From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
Subject: Re: Permanently binding NIC ports with DPDK drivers
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:01:21 -0500
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In my development environment I set up an at-boot provisioning script that 
does it. I recommend using scripts and not shelling out from C code. ;)

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 04:13:01PM +0000, Montorsi, Francesco wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a way to permanently (i.e., have the configuration automatically applied after reboot) bind a NIC port to DPDK?
> 
> In case there's none, I'm thinking to save in my software a list of the NIC ports chosen by the user for use with DPDK and then, upon software startup to just do
>     for (int i=0; i < ...; i++)
>      system("dpdk_nic_bind.py --bind=igb_uio " + PCI_device_chosen[i]);
> Do you see any problem with that? 
> 
> Thanks!
> Francesco Montorsi
>