[dpdk-dev] Unable to get the basic quick start working for dpdk

2013-05-22 Thread Pichon Julien
Ok, I have upgraded my distro to Debian Wheezy (3.2.0-4-amd64) and it works like a charm! It was due to, as you said, the buggy Huge Pages kernel support in 2.6.32. Thanks! 2013/5/21 Thomas Monjalon > Hello, > > 21/05/2013 17:19, Pichon Julien : > > Same problem here with a x540-T2 adapter on a

[dpdk-dev] Unable to get the basic quick start working for dpdk

2013-05-21 Thread Thomas Monjalon
Hello, 21/05/2013 17:19, Pichon Julien : > Same problem here with a x540-T2 adapter on a debian squeeze > (2.6.32-5-amd64). I think you should upgrade your kernel. Vanilla Linux versions < 2.6.34 are known to be buggy about huge pages. Huge pages support is important for DPDK and it could be the

[dpdk-dev] Unable to get the basic quick start working for dpdk

2013-05-21 Thread Pichon Julien
Hello, Same problem here with a x540-T2 adapter on a debian squeeze (2.6.32-5-amd64). After a quick debugging session I found that the following statement in ixgbe_recv_pkts (ixgbe_rxtx.c) is always true and break the loop in charge of receiving packets: if (! staterr & rte_cpu_to_le32(IXGBE_RXDA

[dpdk-dev] Unable to get the basic quick start working for dpdk

2013-05-15 Thread Patrick Mahan
Good Morning, I am doing a bit of work investigating the DPDK code for a prospective client. I have the following hardware setup: Dell PowerEdge T620 running Fedora 14 with the 2.6.35.14-106 kernel. I had to build a custom version to enable memmap for HPET. Uname -a output: pmahan at dpdk-eva