[dpdk-dev] DPDK and custom memory

[Neil Horman]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 06:40:08PM +0000, Saygin, Artur wrote:
> Hello DPDK experts,
> 
> Imagine a PMD for an FPGA-based NIC that is limited to accessing certain memory regions <system, PCI, etc>. Is there a way to make DPDK use that exact memory?
> 
> Perhaps this is more of a hugetlbfs question than DPDK but I thought I'd start here.
> 
Theres no real custom memory need there.  What you need access to is covered by
interface like vfio, which dpdk uses fairly regularly within its other hardware
pmds.
Neil

> Sincerely,
> Artur Saygin
> 
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