Re: [dpdk-dev] Not able to start IAVF PMD with dpdk 20.11.3

["Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>]

Could you have a try to switch from  uio_pci_generic to vfio_pci?

From: Dey, Souvik <sodey@rbbn.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 11:29 PM
To: dev@dpdk.org; Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Not able to start IAVF PMD with dpdk 20.11.3

Hi All,
     Trying to test E810 Sr-IOV based nic card with 20.11.3 dpdk. I am running the host kernel driver and only the VF is attached to the VM where I am running dpdk. But when I attaching the VF to the testpmd it is throwing the below error. Is there are way to move forward here ?

[root@connexip linuxadmin]# ./dpdk-testpmd -c 0xf -n 4 -a 08:00.0 -- -i --rxq=16 --txq=16
EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
EAL: Detected static linkage of DPDK
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA'
EAL: No available hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_iavf (8086:1889) device: 0000:08:00.0 (socket 0)
EAL: Error reading from file descriptor 27: Input/output error
EAL: No legacy callbacks, legacy socket not created
Interactive-mode selected
testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_0>: n=171456, size=2176, socket=0
testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc

Warning! port-topology=paired and odd forward ports number, the last port will pair with itself.

Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
EAL: Error reading from file descriptor 27: Input/output error
iavf_execute_vf_cmd(): No response for cmd 28
iavf_disable_vlan_strip(): Failed to execute command of OP_DISABLE_VLAN_STRIPPING
iavf_execute_vf_cmd(): No response for cmd 24
iavf_configure_rss_lut(): Failed to execute command of OP_CONFIG_RSS_LUT
iavf_dev_configure(): configure rss failed
Port0 dev_configure = -1
Fail to configure port 0
EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
  Cause: Start ports failed
[root@connexip linuxadmin]#


I do see the matching list for driver but is this required even if I use kernel driver on the host and only IAVF PMD on the guest ?

DPDK
Kernel Driver
OS Default DDP
COMMS DDP
Wireless DDP
Firmware
20.11
1.3.2
1.3.20
1.3.24
N/A
2.3
21.02
1.4.11
1.3.24
1.3.28
1.3.4
2.4



Host details:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.2 (Ootpa)
[root@localhost ~]# modinfo ice
filename:       /lib/modules/4.18.0-193.19.1.el8_2.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice.ko.xz
firmware:       intel/ice/ddp/ice.pkg (ice-1.3.4.0.pkg)
version:        0.8.1-k
license:        GPL v2
description:    Intel(R) Ethernet Connection E800 Series Linux Driver
author:         Intel Corporation, linux.nics@intel.com<mailto:linux.nics@intel.com>
rhelversion:    8.2
Using vfio-pci to connect the VF to the VM.

Guest Details:
OS : debian buster
Dpdk : 20.11.3
Interface bound to uio_pci_generic
[root@connexip linuxadmin]# /opt/sonus/bin/np/swe/dpdk-devbind.py --status

Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
============================================
0000:01:00.0 'Virtio network device 1041' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=virtio_pci
0000:08:00.0 'Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function 1889' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=i40evf
0000:09:00.0 'Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function 1889' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=i40evf

Network devices using kernel driver
===================================
0000:02:00.0 'Virtio network device 1041' if=ha0 drv=virtio-pci unused=virtio_pci,uio_pci_generic *Active*


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