From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Selvaganapathy Chidambaram Subject: Re: Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications: CentOS or Debian Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:39:30 -0800 Message-ID: References: <886FB96F-B46C-4129-A609-D80E5D1B2B5E@nyansa.com> <21607DF1-D798-41C1-B5E7-E9CC6CE53B4C@nyansa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" To: Daniel Kan Return-path: In-Reply-To: <21607DF1-D798-41C1-B5E7-E9CC6CE53B4C-nm7580oGLDTQT0dZR+AlfA@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" Hi Daniel, virtio-net-pmd (dpdk-1.5) works on CentOS 6.x . Just verified basic packet flow with one queue. Thanks, Selvaganapathy.C. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Kan wrote: > Thanks for the all the feedbacks. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has 3.8.x kernel and > Fedcore 18 has 3.10.x kernel. Both kernels are not compatible with the > vmxnet-usermap driver which supports only up to 3.2.x. virtio-net-pmd > requires kernel 3.8.x and qemu 1.5 for multi-queue support. Since CentOS's > kernel is on its own path, I'm wondering if anyone has any issue with > virtio-net-pmd on CentOS 6.x. > > Prashant, CentOS is essentially the same as RHEL 6.3 minus the support. > > Dan > > On Jan 30, 2014, at 6:06 AM, Hamed khanmirza wrote: > > > Hi Dan, > > > > We are also using Debian 7.3, from the DPDK v1.3.1 up to version 1.5.1r1. > > it works completely fine. > > > > regards, > > - Hamed > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Daniel Kaminsky < > > daniel.kaminsky-bIuJOMs36akdlAAv9/cgxFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > >> We're using CentOS 6.5 and Ubuntu 12.04 and don't see any issue with > both > >> of them. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Daniel Kaminsky > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Prashant Upadhyaya < > >> prashant.upadhyaya-pccXkzZloW5BDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Dan, > >>> > >>> Intel DPDK release notes(1.5.2) mention the following tested OS -- > >>> * Fedora release 18 > >>> * Ubuntu* 12.04 LTS > >>> * Wind River* Linux* 5 > >>> * Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 6.3 > >>> * SUSE Enterprise Linux* 11 SP2 > >>> > >>> I have personally used Fedora 18 and it works fine for me for > >>> virtualization including SRIOV and pass through as well as virtio with > >> KNI > >>> backend. > >>> So I am tending to stick to Fedora 18. > >>> > >>> I don't know why is CentOS not tested and mentioned in release notes. > >>> > >>> Regards > >>> -Prashant > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Kan > >>> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:01 PM > >>> To: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org > >>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications: > >>> CentOS or Debian > >>> > >>> I'm deciding between Debian 7.3 (3.2.0 kernel) and CentOS 6.5 (2.6.32 > >>> kernel) for production. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendation. We > >> run > >>> the DPDK application in a virtualized environment. Currently, we > >> configure > >>> NICs in pass-through mode which gives the best performance. In the > >> future, > >>> we plan to use DPDK with paravirtualized nics (eg. vmxnet3-usermap). > >> Thanks. > >>> > >>> Dan > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > =============================================================================== > >>> Please refer to http://www.aricent.com/legal/email_disclaimer.html > >>> for important disclosures regarding this electronic communication. > >>> > >>> > >> > =============================================================================== > >>> > >> > >