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From: "Montorsi, Francesco" <fmontorsi@empirix.com>
Subject: Re: Permanently binding NIC ports with DPDK drivers
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:48:02 +0000
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Hi John,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mcnamara, John [mailto:john.mcnamara@intel.com]
>=20
> The Ubuntu dpdk package for 15.10 contains system scripts with functions =
for
> reserving hugepages and binding interfaces on bootup:
>=20
>=20
>     /etc/dpdk/dpdk.conf
>     /etc/dpdk/interfaces
>     /etc/init.d/dpdk
>     /lib/dpdk/dpdk-init
>     /lib/systemd/system/dpdk.service
>     /sbin/dpdk_nic_bind
>     /usr/bin/testpmd
>     /usr/share/doc/dpdk/README.Debian
>     /usr/share/doc/dpdk/changelog.Debian.gz
>     /usr/share/doc/dpdk/copyright
>     /usr/share/dpdk/tools/cpu_layout.py
>     /usr/share/dpdk/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py
>     /usr/share/dpdk/tools/setup.sh
>     /usr/share/python/runtime.d/dpdk.rtupdate
>=20
>     http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/amd64/dpdk/filelist
>=20
> If you have the latest version of Ubuntu you can check that out or else
> download and extract the files from the .deb to see how they do it.
>=20

This certainly looks very useful. I inspected the package and the files you=
 mentioned and indeed it looks like a good way to go, specially if Ubuntu d=
istribution is moving in that direction (hopefully other distros will follo=
w too).

Thanks a lot!

Francesco