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DPDK
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The Data Plane Development Kit, a Linux Foundation effort, makes robust userspace Linux networking more or less available to the common hax0r.
Userspace driver
You'll need either a UIO or a VFIO module loaded. VFIO is preferable, as it can drive the IOMMU. This is the vfio-pci driver. If your system can't work with VFIO, the uio_pci_generic or igb_uio modules can be employed.
