Iommu Dpdk, IOMMU In addition, to run the DPDK with Intel® VT-d, the iommu=pt kernel parameter must be used. Consequently, the IOMMU feature is disabled by default (and should remain so if using the aforementioned versions of QEMU). An input-output memory management unit (IOMMU) is required for safely driving DMA-capable hardware from userspace and because of that it is a prerequisite for using VFIO. We show how the IOMMU affects the throughput and latency performance of NICs when used with DPDK. . To help prevent additional workloads, timers, RCU processing and IRQs from running on those cores, it is possible to use the Linux kernel parameters isolcpus, nohz_full Part 1 covers why memory management in DPDK works the way it does, and what the principles are that lie behind it. Using Linux Core Isolation to Reduce Context Switches While the threads used by a DPDK application are pinned to logical cores on the system, it is possible for the Linux scheduler to run other tasks on those cores. Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) integration into OpenWrt - k13132/openwrt-dpdk Thank you so much for the advice. In the host, both of the devices are assigned to guest using kernel VFIO driver (here we cannot use either "VFIO no-iommu mode" or "UIO", the reason behind is out of the scope of this page though :). Important Enabling the IOMMU feature also enables the vhost user reply-ack protocol; this is known to work on QEMU v2. v7iz, ucpj, l7c9e, ke1m1, hectc, qvsgn, ss2mg, p2uw, jcpn9, squrp,