On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:19:25 -0800 Stephen Hemminger <shemming at brocade.com> wrote:
> On my machine, i40e will not startup if using VFIO. > > PMD: rte_i40evf_pmd_init(): >> > PMD: rte_i40e_pmd_init(): >> > PMD: eth_i40e_dev_init(): >> > PMD: i40e_set_symmetric_hash_enable_per_port(): Symmetric hash has already > been disabled > PMD: eth_i40e_dev_init(): Failed to init adminq: -54 > > The normal Linux driver works correctly. Firmware has been updated to the > latest version. > > Like my earlier experience with fm10k, I suspect that Intel never tests i40e > with IOMMU, > and only tested with igb_uio. I found the issue. It was a problem with older version of Xen DOM0 patches which were still outstanding in the internal development package.
