From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladimir Medvedkin Subject: Re: Questions on use of multiple NIC interfaces Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:43:19 +0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" To: "Sujith Sankar (ssujith)" 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" 1. Yes. 2. Yes. Look at programmer's guide section 16 Multi-process support. 3. You can use blacklist eal option. Regards, Vladimir 2014-03-28 13:25 GMT+04:00 Sujith Sankar (ssujith) : > Hi all, > > Could someone answer the following questions about the usage of multiple > NIC interfaces with DPDK? > > 1. If my server has two identical Intel NICs, could I use both with DPDK > and its applications? > 2. If both the NIC cards could be used with DPDK, could I use them with > separate instances of applications? E.g., NIC1 used by App1 and NIC2 used > by App2. > 3. If answer to qn no 2 is yes, does the driver take care to avoid > reinitialising NIC1 when App2 tries to initialise NIC2? From what I've > seen, DPDK calls the driver init for all the matching devices (vendor id > and device id). > > Thanks, > -Sujith >