System Requirements

Xilinx Accelerator Card

  1. U250

Host System Configuration

QEP DPDK driver release is verified on following host system configuration

  Configuration Details
Host System Supermicro SYS-7049GP-TRT
Processor Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 Processor
PCIe Gen 3 x16, Full height, Full Length, dual width slot
Operating System Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Linux Kernel 4.15.0-65-generic
CPU Cores 56
RAM 64GB on local NUMA node
Hypervisor KVM
Qemu Version QEMU emulator version 2.11.1(Debian 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.3)
Vivado Version 2019.1

Guest System Configuration

QEP DPDK driver latest release is verified on the following guest system configuration by attaching network PF to the guest VM

Guest System(VM) Configuration Details
Operating System Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Linux Kernel 4.15.1-20-generic
RAM 24GB
Cores 16
kernel boot arguments default_hugepagesz=1GB hugepagesz=1G hugepages=6

A 100G NIC card from a different vendor is also required for checking connectivity with a peer NIC. The release is verified using Mellanox ConnectX-5 as the peer NIC.