Hi Bruce, Thank you for the quick response. No it didn't work with igb_uio either. The reason is,
I had made a mistake, When i created VFs on top of the 10G card, that interface was down actually. but i proceeded anyway because i could see mac on these vfs from "ifconfig -a". After a bit of looking around, i found that eth_ixgbevf_dev_init() expects these VFs to have some mac. Then i looked again with "ip link show dev parent_if_name", these vfs had no mac. So i administratively up'ed(ifconfig up) the parent interface and then created VFs on top it and bound them to vfio-pci. Now the test-pmd app works fine. Sorry for the false alarm. Thanks so much, -DG On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 14:06, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:57:04AM +0530, Deepak Gowda wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to run test-pmd application with virtual functions bound to > > vfio-pci. > > I'm able to bind and unbind the virtual functions from ixgbevf to > vfio-pci > > and vice-versa > > And i'm seeing the below VF Initialization failure error, i can't seem to > > figure out what's going wrong here, > > > > EAL: using IOMMU type 1 (Type 1) > > PMD: eth_ixgbevf_dev_init(): VF Initialization Failure: -15 > > EAL: Releasing pci mapped resource for 0000:04:10.0 > > EAL: Calling pci_unmap_resource for 0000:04:10.0 at 0x7f808ba00000 > > EAL: Calling pci_unmap_resource for 0000:04:10.0 at 0x7f808ba04000 > > EAL: Requested device 0000:04:10.0 cannot be used > > EAL: PCI device 0000:04:10.2 on NUMA socket 0 > > EAL: probe driver: 8086:10ed net_ixgbe_vf > > EAL: using IOMMU type 1 (Type 1) > > PMD: eth_ixgbevf_dev_init(): VF Initialization Failure: -15 > > EAL: Releasing pci mapped resource for 0000:04:10.2 > > EAL: Calling pci_unmap_resource for 0000:04:10.2 at 0x7f808ba08000 > > EAL: Calling pci_unmap_resource for 0000:04:10.2 at 0x7f808ba0c000 > > EAL: Requested device 0000:04:10.2 cannot be used > > > > Here's some more information: > > I'm using dpdk-17.11. > > Created Virtual functions on Intel 82599ES 10G cards. > > Bound these vfs to vfio-pci. > > And tried to run the test-pmd. > > > > > Is this a vfio specific problem? Does the app work with those ports if they > are bound to igb_uio, for instance? > > /Bruce >
