How To Install libvma on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvma
on Fedora 34.
What is libvma
libvma is a LD_PRELOAD-able library that boosts performance of TCP and UDP traffic. It allows application written over standard socket API to handle fast path data traffic from user space over Ethernet and/or Infiniband with full network stack bypass and get better throughput, latency and packets/sec rate. No application binary change is required for that. libvma is supported by RDMA capable devices that support “verbs” IBV_QPT_RAW_PACKET QP for Ethernet and/or IBV_QPT_UD QP for IPoIB.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libvma
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvma.
Install libvma on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install libvma
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libvma
Install libvma on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install libvma
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvma
How To Uninstall libvma on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libvma
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libvma
libvma Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/libvma.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/ce10b4998774bb12055b05315589af34774297
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/a6b5ead9b44cf60f7a190a2d3d0e81aa0d2cb5
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vma.service
/usr/lib64/libvma.so
/usr/lib64/libvma.so.9
/usr/lib64/libvma.so.9.2.2
/usr/sbin/vmad
/usr/share/doc/libvma
/usr/share/doc/libvma/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/libvma/VMA_VERSION
/usr/share/doc/libvma/journal.txt
/usr/share/licenses/libvma
/usr/share/licenses/libvma/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libvma/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man7/vma.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/vmad.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvma
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.