Re: [dpdk-users] Running DPDK on Google Cloud Compute Engine (GCE)

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Hello Rex,

Could you please provide steps u used to configure the interfaces and
how u r starting test_pmd?
I am having somewhat similar issues on Centos7.

Thanks a lot!

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Tan, Jianfeng <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Rex,
>
>
> On 9/14/2017 6:53 AM, Rex Shang wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone has successfully have DPDK running on VM inside
>> Google Cloud.  I’ve tried similar set up on my Mac Book Pro with Virtual Box
>> and had success.  Using similar recipe, I can’t have testpmd pass the
>> initialization.  Before I spend too much time, just wondering if I am
>> working on mission impossible.  ;)  Your input is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Here is my setup:
>> Google Cloud Compute Engine
>> 4 vCore with 8 GB of memory
>> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>> 3 NIC with 2 used for DPDK (driver: net_virtio); I am a bit doubtful about
>> this NIC but so far the NIC is up with “igb_uio"
>>
>> Rex
>>
>> ------------
>>
>> EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
>> EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
>> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
>> EAL: VFIO support initialized
>> EAL: PCI device 0000:00:04.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> EAL:   Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0
>> EAL:   probe driver: 1af4:1000 net_virtio
>> EAL: PCI device 0000:00:05.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> EAL:   Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0
>> EAL:   probe driver: 1af4:1000 net_virtio
>> EAL: PCI device 0000:00:06.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> EAL:   Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0
>> EAL:   probe driver: 1af4:1000 net_virtio
>> Interactive-mode selected
>> USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=163456, size=2176,
>> socket=0
>> Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
>> Fail to configure port 0
>> EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
>>    Cause: Start ports failed
>
>
> When you start testpmd, please make sure the option, --disable-hw-vlan, is
> added.
>
> Besides, you can apply the below patch to enable the debug mode of virtio to
> see what's wrong:
>
> diff --git a/config/common_base b/config/common_base
> index 5e97a08..5863203 100644
> --- a/config/common_base
> +++ b/config/common_base
> @@ -328,10 +328,10 @@ CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_DPAA2_DEBUG_TX_FREE=n
>  # Compile burst-oriented VIRTIO PMD driver
>  #
>  CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_PMD=y
> -CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_INIT=n
> -CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_RX=n
> -CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_TX=n
> -CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_DRIVER=n
> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_INIT=y
> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_RX=y
> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_TX=y
> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_DRIVER=y
>  CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VIRTIO_DEBUG_DUMP=n
>
>  #
>