This NIC (000:01:00.0) is supported (Intel XL710). I assume that I can use VFIO instead of UIO. UIO is really bad from a security perspective.
I think its the "cannot create new DMA window, error 22" which is the first indicator of the problem. Daniel -----"Wiles, Keith" <keith.wi...@intel.com> wrote: ----- To: Daniel Waddington <daniel.wadding...@ibm.com> From: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wi...@intel.com> Date: 01/09/2019 02:52PM Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK on IBM Power9 > 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
