All, When I execute testpmd as shown below, it runs to the prompt apparently without error but the system becomes unresponsive and I am forced to reboot.
Any suggestions as to why this is happening? Thanks in advance, David oot at dpdk-26:~/src/C/dpdk-1.7.1/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc# app/testpmd -c f -n 4 -- --portmask=0x1 --nb-cores=2 -i EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0 EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 1 on socket 0 [...] EAL: Detected lcore 29 as core 5 on socket 1 EAL: Detected lcore 30 as core 6 on socket 1 EAL: Detected lcore 31 as core 7 on socket 1 EAL: Support maximum 64 logical core(s) by configuration. EAL: Detected 32 lcore(s) EAL: Setting up memory... EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x100000000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6b80000000 (size = 0x100000000) EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x100000000 bytes EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6a40000000 (size = 0x100000000) EAL: Requesting 4 pages of size 1024MB from socket 0 EAL: Requesting 4 pages of size 1024MB from socket 1 EAL: TSC frequency is ~2600000 KHz EAL: Master core 0 is ready (tid=23fac840) EAL: Core 3 is ready (tid=210bf700) EAL: Core 2 is ready (tid=218c0700) EAL: Core 1 is ready (tid=220c1700) EAL: PCI device 0000:05:00.0 on NUMA socket 0 EAL: probe driver: 8086:10f8 rte_ixgbe_pmd EAL: 0000:05:00.0 not managed by VFIO driver, skipping EAL: PCI memory mapped at 0x7f6d23e6b000 EAL: PCI memory mapped at 0x7f6d23e67000 EAL: PCI device 0000:05:00.1 on NUMA socket 0 EAL: probe driver: 8086:10f8 rte_ixgbe_pmd EAL: 0000:05:00.1 not managed by VFIO driver, skipping EAL: PCI memory mapped at 0x7f6d207bf000 EAL: PCI memory mapped at 0x7f6d23e63000 previous number of forwarding ports 2 - changed to number of configured ports 1 Interactive-mode selected Configuring Port 0 (socket 0) Port 0: 38:EA:A7:8B:34:50 Configuring Port 1 (socket 0) Port 1: 38:EA:A7:8B:34:51 Checking link statuses... Port 0 Link Up - speed 10000 Mbps - full-duplex Port 1 Link Up - speed 10000 Mbps - full-duplex Done testpmd>