Re: [dpdk-dev] seeing a problem dpdk startup

[Venumadhav Josyula <vjosyula@gmail.com>]

Hi Roberts,

Thanks for your reply. Basically, our BIOS is old we do not have that
feature in our BIOS , we need to upgrade it.

But after enabling will it work, can you confirm that based on your
experience or somebody informing you success story.

Thanks,
Regards,
Venu

On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 19:45, Roberts, Lee A. <lee.roberts@hpe.com> wrote:

> Please see the HPE customer advisory at
> https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=7271241&docId=emr_na-c04781229&docLocale=en_US
> .
> You will need to disable the shared memory features for the NIC card.
>
>                                  - Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Hui Wei
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2019 1:01 AM
> To: Venumadhav Josyula <vjosyula@gmail.com>
> Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; users <users@dpdk.org>; Venumadhav Josyula <
> vjosyula@parallelwireless.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] seeing a problem dpdk startup
>
> I think  BIOS turn off vt-d, use igb_uio can work around.
>
> >Hi Hui,
> >
> >I understand that and we are exploring that.
> >
> >But is there no work around there where in it defaults to igb_uio driver
> >something like that..... Basic idea is we should not be situation of no
> >port detected at all under this situation ?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Regards,
> >Venu
> >
> >On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 13:15, Hui Wei <huiweics@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> >We are seeing following error, no device is detected....
> >> >==========
> >> >EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
> >> >EAL: Detected 2 NUMA nodes
> >> >EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
> >> >EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
> >> >EAL: Probing VFIO support...
> >> >EAL: VFIO support initialized
> >> >EAL: PCI device 0000:04:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
> >> >EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1528 net_ixgbe
> >> >EAL:   0000:04:00.0 failed to select IOMMU type
> >> >EAL: Requested device 0000:04:00.0 cannot be used
> >> >EAL: PCI device 0000:04:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
> >> >EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1528 net_ixgbe
> >> >EAL:   0000:04:00.1 failed to select IOMMU type
> >> >EAL: Requested device 0000:04:00.1 cannot be used
> >> >
> >> >==================
> >> >dmesg
> >> >
> >> >[55455.259493] vfio-pci 0000:04:00.0: Device is ineligible for IOMMU
> >> domain
> >> >attach due to platform RMRR requirement.  Contact your platform vendor.
> >> >[55455.260947] vfio-pci 0000:04:00.1: Device is ineligible for IOMMU
> >> domain
> >> >attach due to platform RMRR requirement.  Contact your platform vendor.
> >>
> >> Intel Vt-d document addresses RMRR, but not that clearly. Check BIOS
> >> setup,
> >> no link share, for example, a nic detect by linux kernel, it was shared
> by
> >> BIOS for
> >> IPMI. If change BIOS setup don't solve your problem, contact platform
> >> vendor update
> >> nic firmware, a server made by HP, check HP's website for firmware.
> >>
> >> >
> >> >======
> >> >BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-957.el7.pw.1.x86_64 root=/dev/sda3
> >> >intel_iommu=on
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Can anybody suggest how to work around the issue ?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >Regards,
> >> >Venu
>