From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ymo Lists Subject: Re: Is it possible to have dpdk running with no dependency on a nic ? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:20:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org 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" Could you please point me to a sample doing this ? All the sample i have seen are initializing the eal and that involves initializing the nics. Is there a sample ? Can you mock up some code ? plz plzzz :-) On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Vivek Soni wrote: > Yes, It is very well possible to run DPDK without dependency on the NIC. > But it all depends what you want to do. > The two DPDK applications can communicate using the ring library provided > by DPDK. In case there is no NIC, DPDK provides pure software based PMDs > which can be used on systems without a NIC or with unsupported NIC using > standard kernel drivers. > > Hope it helps. > > Regards, > Vivek > > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Ymo Lists wrote: > > > Is this a faq ??? > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Ymo Lists wrote: > > > > > 1) I have two apps that need to communicate on the same machine . Is it > > > possible to have these two apps communicating via dpdk without > > referencing > > > a nic ? > > > > > > 2) The apps need to run on an amazon vm. How can you run dpdk on an > > amazon > > > vm with only one nic if the above is not possible ? > > > > > >