How To Install libvma on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvma
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvma.
Install libvma on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libvma
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libvma on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libvma
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libvma on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libvma
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvma
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.