From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Marchand Subject: Re: Which vmxnet3 pmd is to be used in dpdk 1.6.x? Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:55:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" To: Srinivasan J 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" Hello, I would say the main advantage is the fact that vmxnet3-usermap does not require uio. Regards, -- David Marchand On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Srinivasan J wrote: > I want to try dpdk with vmxnet3 in Vmware Esxi 5.1. I see that the > latest dpdk 1.6.0r1 includes a vmxnet3 pmd. The > vmxnet3-usermap-1.1.tar.gz as well includes a vmxnet3 pmd driver. > > I'm confused as to which vmxnet3 pmd driver to use along with which > vmxnet3 kernel driver (vmxnet3 native kernel driver or vmxnet3-usermap > kernel driver). I also want to try RSS with vmxnet3 and dpdk. As per > Intel DPDK Programmer's Guide (January 2014) RSS is supported with > vmxnet3 since dpdk version 1.6.0. > > Thanks, > Srini >