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From: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Permissions Required to Run DPDK/MLX5 as Non-Root User?
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:38:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f84f815-61c4-a826-9850-7ca56946d3e8@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e44afa0-951c-9161-75d9-a1f679a1995e@linux.vnet.ibm.com>



On 2/20/20 11:24 AM, David Christensen wrote:
> Running DPDK 20.02-rc3 and attempting to use the MLX5 PMD as a non-root 
> user.  When starting testpmd I'm receiving the following error on both 
> Power and x86_64 platforms (full output further down):
> 
>    net_mlx5: probe of PCI device 0000:01:00.0 aborted after encountering 
> an error: Operation not supported

Ended up with two answers:

1) Manually clean out /dev/hugepages.  Often encountered root owned 
files left over from previous test runs, causing memory allocation 
failures when DPDK couldn't use the name it wanted (rtemap_*).

2) Needed to manually add special permissions to dpdk-testpmd (thanks 
Shahaf):
# setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin,cap_ipc_lock+eip 
~/src/dpdk/build/app/dpdk-testpmd

Dave

      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-24 22:38 UTC|newest]

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2020-02-20 19:24 David Christensen
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