DevX UAR allocation failure on ConnectX-5 (MT27800) with DPDK 22.11.7

[Prashant Gupta <prashant.gupta_3@nxp.com>]

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Hi DPDK Community,

I'm currently working with dpdk-22.11 ( also tried current 24.07) and facing an issue when initializing 2×25G Mellanox NICs (MT27800 Family [ConnectX-5]) on ARM based system.

During device probing, I see the following errors:

EAL: Probe PCI driver: mlx5_pci (15b3:1017) device: 0001:01:00.0 (socket -1)
mlx5_common: Failed to allocate DevX UAR (BF/NC)
mlx5_common: Failed to allocate UAR.
mlx5_net: Failed to prepare Tx DevX UAR.
mlx5_net: probe of PCI device 0001:01:00.0 aborted after encountering an error: Operation not permitted

Interestingly, the same setup works fine with 2×100G MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex] NICs.
Also this 2x25G cards work well with Linux kernel.  The issue is only with DPDK binding.

When I enable kernel prints, UAR allocation appears successful, suggesting the issue may be DevX-specific on MT27800.

I'd appreciate any guidance on:

  *   Known limitations or configuration differences between MT27800 and MT28800
  *   Whether DevX should be disabled explicitly for MT27800 (e.g., MLX5_DEVX=0)
  *   Any firmware or kernel dependencies that might affect DevX support

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best Regards,
Prashant Gupta


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