[dpdk-users] DPDK mlx4 PMD on Azure VM

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Jan 8 16:42:28 CET 2018


On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:01:09 +0800
Hui Ling <kelvin.brookletling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Stephen,
> 
> My last VM (DS3 v2, with 4 cores and 16GB memory) is in Canada East
> and I got AN enabled on my subscription so AN worked just fine.
> 
> For DPDK, I saw from your slides in DPDK submit last year saying
> current DPDK solution in Azure needs:
> 
> 1) Linux kerlnel 4.14

You need transparent bonding support which is in kernel netvsc driver.
It has been backported to Ubuntu Azure (4.13) package, RHEL 7 and SLES.



> 2) 8 cores
> 
> I am not sure if these are must. I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu to 4.14,
> but then I ran into compilation issues with DPDK 17.11 for MLX4 PMD.
> So I stayed with older version of kernel for Ubuntu 16.04.
> With my config of VM, however, I could not get the failsafe.sh I got
> from MS for azure to work.

The number of cores requirement has been dropped, think it is available
with 4 now.


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