Connecting two DPDK applications through fake virtual functions

[Dmitry Kozlyuk]

2022-03-17 21:53 (UTC+0100), Antonio Di Bacco:
> Really? I know that the application is using a PMD driver for Intel card,
> will this driver work with memif too?

In many cases DPDK applications are agnostic of the underlying HW
and are capable of using any provided PMD, including pure SW devices,
like memif. If you can supply DPDK arguments to the app,
it should be easy to try and find out.

P.S. Please avoid top-posting.

> Il giorno gio 17 mar 2022 alle ore 17:44 Dmitry Kozlyuk <
> dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com> ha scritto:  
> 
> > 2022-03-17 16:55 (UTC+0100), Antonio Di Bacco:  
> > > Unfortunately I cannot change the applications but I only can create some
> > > fake VFs and connect them with software.
> > > Could OVS come to the rescue?  
> >
> > You don't need to modify app code to communicate via shared memory:
> > https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/memif.html