From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bhavesh Davda Subject: Re: rte_eth_dev_count() returns 0 Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 09:21:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <525534677.5312512.1368202896189.JavaMail.root@vmware.com> References: <1676591087.5291867.1368201908283.JavaMail.root@vmware.com> <20130510091549.3c064df6@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Henry Wang , dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130510091549.3c064df6-We1ePj4FEcvRI77zikRAJc56i+j3xesD0e7PPNI6Mm0@public.gmane.org> 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" Right: VMware has supported VMDirectPath passthrough since ESXi 4.0, on any platform with an IOMMU (Intel VT-d) which is anything Nehalem Xeons or newer. I know this is a DPDK forum, but Stephen, if you know of specific limitations of ESXi 5.1's SR-IOV support, please let me know and I'll make sure we work on addressing them. -- Bhavesh Davda ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Hemminger" > To: "Bhavesh Davda" > Cc: "Henry Wang" , dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 9:15:49 AM > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_eth_dev_count() returns 0 > > On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:05:08 -0700 (PDT) > Bhavesh Davda wrote: > > > ESXi 5.0 doesn't have SR-IOV support (it's in the code, but is disabled and > > not usable for customers). VMware introduced SR-IOV support, including out > > of the box support for Intel Niantic 10GbE NICs, in ESXi 5.1. > > > > You can use PCI passthrough (Directpath) on 5.0 (and 5.1). > I found that SR-IOV on Vmware is even more fussy than SR-IOV on Linux. > It requires a supported platform with VT-d and PCIe ASPM >