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Intel has a getting started guide - perhaps that helps: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/intel-technology/intel-dpdk-getting-started-guide.html

Check the Xen section.

On Thursday, March 6, 2014 2:50 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 5, 2014 5:33 PM, "Peter X. Gao" <peterxianggao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Konrad,
>
> Just to make sure I understand everything. So I need to set up
> 2MB hugepage in Dom0 and use a module to share it with a HVM guest.
> How could I compile the module?
> Inside the DomU, how could I see the shared 2MB hugepages? Do I
> need another frontend driver? Many thanks.
>

Please don't top post. I am afraid that I can't help you much - as I just did a scan through the logs and found that.

I would recommend you email this to the DPDK mailing list. They should be able to help you much more thoroughly than I can.
> Regards
> Peter
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:01:40PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 10:07 -0800, Peter X. Gao wrote:
> >> > Thanks for your reply. I am now using virtio-net and it seems working.
> >> > However, Intel DPDK also requires hugepage. When a DPDK application is
> >> > initiating hugepage, I got the following error. Do I need to config
> >> > something in Xen to support hugepage?
> >>
> >> I'm not sure about the status of superpage support in mainline kernels
> >> for PV Xen guests. IIRC there was a requirement to add a Xen command
> >> line flag to enable it at the level.
> >>
> >> Or you could just use an HVM guest, since no special support is needed
> >> for hugepages there.
> >>
> >> But maybe I'm confused because I think your use of virtio-net would
> >> necessarily require that you be using an HVM not PV guest.
> >>
> >> But then looking at your logs I see Xen PV block and net but no sign of
> >> virtio -- so I suspect you are actually doing PV and not using
> >> virtio-net at all.
> >
> > DPDK 1.6 is out - and you can do Xen. You need to use HVM guests and
> > a special module in dom0 to setup 2MB contingous pages that
> > is shared with the guest.
> >
> > The protocol that DPDK uses is VirtIO.
> >
> > See:
> > http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=47bd46112b710dc59b1becfb67e18da319c5debe
> > http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=148f963fb5323c1c6b6d5cea95084deb25cc73f8
> >
> >>
> >> Ian.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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