Alexey, Mellanox support DPDK only on Ethernet, no IB. And yes, you need to install Mellanox drivers , OFED, to support it.
What NIC do you have? Best Regards, Olga ________________________________________________________________ Olga Shern SW Director DPDK Mellanox Technologies, Raanana Israel > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Alexey > Kardashevskiy > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 10:24 AM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru>; j...@zurich.ibm.com; > Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishanka...@in.ibm.com> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH dpdk 0/5] ppc64/spapr: Attempt to use on > POWER8 > > Hi! > > This is my first attempt to use DPDK on POWER8 machine and yet > unsuccessful as it turned out DPDK only supports IB-Mellanox (I only got > ethernet-Mellanox, and requires OFED), rmmod on Intel 40Gb module > produces PCI errors (unrelated to DPDK) and Broadcom bnx2x has few issues > (below) and still crashes as I suspect I got DMA mapping wrong, here is a > backtrace: > > Configuring Port 0 (socket 0) > PMD: bnx2x_issue_dmae_with_comp(): DMAE timeout! > PANIC in bnx2x_write_dmae(): > DMAE failed (-1)22: [/lib/powerpc64le-linux- > gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xb8) [0x3fffb7c23298]] > 21: [/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x2309c) [0x3fffb7c2309c]] > 20: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(main+0x228) [0x100255d0]] > 19: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(start_port+0x5dc) > [0x1002341c]] > 18: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(rte_eth_dev_start+0xc4) > [0x1008b3c0]] > 17: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10117550]] > 16: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(bnx2x_init+0x204) > [0x100f7210]] > 15: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100f6888]] > 14: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100ee7f4]] > 13: > [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(ecore_func_state_change+0x > 250) [0x10127794]] > 12: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x1012734c]] > 11: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10126830]] > 10: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10126618]] > 9: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10100a98]] > 8: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100ffe00]] > 7: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100de614]] > 6: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100de4cc]] > 5: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x101063c0]] > 4: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100e1f6c]] > 3: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(bnx2x_write_dmae+0x11c) > [0x100e1e40]] > 2: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(__rte_panic+0x8c) > [0x100b3e58]] > 1: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(rte_dump_stack+0x40) > [0x100b3cc4]] > > Thread 1 "testpmd" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. > 0x00003fffb7c3edb0 in __GI_raise (sig=<optimised out>) at > ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:54 > 54 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory. > > Still, some fixes are quite obvious and straigtforward. > > This is based on sha1 > 2fc8e0bf0 Olivier Matz "log: fix dump of registered logs when disabled". > > Please comment. Thanks. > > > > Alexey Kardashevskiy (5): > vfio/ppc64/spapr: Use correct structures for add/remove windows > pci: Initialize common rte driver pointer > RFC: bnx2x: Update firmware versions > vfio: Do try setting IOMMU type if already set > RFC: vfio/ppc64/spapr: Use correct bus addresses for DMA map > > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.h | 8 +++++ > drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.c | 4 +-- > lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_pci.c | 1 + > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++------------ > --- > 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.11.0
