[dpdk-dev] Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications: CentOS or Debian

[Hamed khanmirza]

Hi Dan,

We are also using Debian 7.3, from the DPDK v1.3.1 up to version 1.5.1r1.
it works completely fine.

regards,
- Hamed


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Daniel Kaminsky <
daniel.kaminsky at infinitelocality.com> wrote:

> We're using CentOS 6.5 and Ubuntu 12.04 and don't see any issue with both
> of them.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Kaminsky
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Prashant Upadhyaya <
> prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > Intel DPDK release notes(1.5.2) mention the following tested OS --
> > * Fedora release 18
> > * Ubuntu* 12.04 LTS
> > * Wind River* Linux* 5
> > * Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 6.3
> > * SUSE Enterprise Linux* 11 SP2
> >
> > I have personally used Fedora 18 and it works fine for me for
> > virtualization including SRIOV and pass through as well as virtio with
> KNI
> > backend.
> > So I am tending to stick to Fedora 18.
> >
> > I don't know why is CentOS not tested and mentioned in release notes.
> >
> > Regards
> > -Prashant
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Kan
> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:01 PM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications:
> > CentOS or Debian
> >
> > I'm deciding between Debian 7.3 (3.2.0 kernel) and CentOS 6.5 (2.6.32
> > kernel) for production. I'm wondering if anyone has recommendation. We
> run
> > the DPDK application in a virtualized environment. Currently, we
> configure
> > NICs in pass-through mode which gives the best performance. In the
> future,
> > we plan to use DPDK with paravirtualized nics (eg. vmxnet3-usermap).
> Thanks.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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