> On Jan 9, 2019, at 4:25 PM, Daniel Waddington <daniel.wadding...@ibm.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to run DPDK 18.11 on IBM Power9. Should it run? (I'n new to DPDK
> on Power).
> Thx,
> Daniel
> Below is what I get:
>
> $ sudo ./examples/ethtool/ethtool-app/ppc_64-power8-linuxapp-gcc/app/ethtool
> --iova-mode=pa -c7 -w 0000:01:00.0
> EAL: Detected 128 lcore(s)
> EAL: Detected 2 NUMA nodes
> EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
> EAL: VFIO support initialized
> EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
> EAL: probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
> EAL: using IOMMU type 7 (sPAPR)
> EAL: cannot create new DMA window, error 22 (Invalid argument)
> EAL: Could not create new DMA window
> EAL: 0000:01:00.0 DMA remapping failed, error 22 (Invalid argument)
> EAL: Requested device 0000:01:00.0 cannot be used
> Number of NICs: 0
> EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
> Cause: No available NIC ports!
>
>From the message above you need support NIC for DPDK is all or you a NIC needs
>to be bound to something like igb_uio for linux. I have never run DPDK on
>power before and not sure what is next other then using a supported NIC.
>
>
Regards,
Keith
