Thanks, Siva! Got it working.

From: Tummala, Sivaprasad <Sivaprasad.Tummala@amd.com>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 7:25 PM
To: Singh, Jasvinder <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>; users@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
Cc: Marjanovic, Nemanja <nemanja.marjanovic@intel.com>
Subject: RE: mlx5_common: failed to load mlx5_eth driver issue

[AMD Official Use Only - AMD Internal Distribution Only]

Hi Jasvinder,

I was facing similar issue with Cx-7 and it appears that the issue is related to the network namespace.

By configuring the Pod/container to use the "host's network namespace," the issue is effectively resolved.

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  spec:

      nodeSelector:

        "feature.node.kubernetes.io/test-node": "true"

hostNetwork: true

      containers:

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Thanks & Regards,

Sivaprasad

From: Singh, Jasvinder <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 4:45 PM
To: users@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
Cc: Marjanovic, Nemanja <nemanja.marjanovic@intel.com>
Subject: mlx5_common: failed to load mlx5_eth driver issue

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Hi Folks,

I am trying to run dpdk-testpmd in a container with NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NIC card on the system and facing issue described below. Details on the system setup are as follow-

Host Configuration for OFED and CX7:

Nvidia CX7 is configured to use Ethernet as opposed to InfiniBand with the following steps:

OFED driver installation:

./mlnxofedinstall --without-dkms --add-kernel-support --kernel 6.8.0-51-generic --without-fw-update --force

Configuration:

mlxconfig -d /dev/mst/mt4129_pciconf0  set LINK_TYPE_P1=2

mlxconfig -d /dev/mst/mt4129_pciconf1  set LINK_TYPE_P1=2

SRIOV has been also enabled on the NIC.

The above configuration resulted in successfully deploying dpdk-testpmd on virtual functions on the host.

Container Configuration for OFED:

Ubuntu 22.04 used within container.

# Install mlnx OFED Drivers

RUN wget https://www.mellanox.com/downloads/ofed/MLNX_OFED-24.07-0.6.1.0/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0-ubuntu24.04-x86_64.tgz \

       && tar -xvf MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0-ubuntu24.04-x86_64.tgz \

       && cd MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.07-0.6.1.0-ubuntu24.04-x86_64 \

       && ./mlnxofedinstall --force --without-fw-update --dpdk --upstream-libs

Dpdk-testpmd error log:

root@tpmd-0:/tmp/dpdk-build/app# ./dpdk-testpmd -n 4 -a 60:00.1 -a 60:00.2  -- -i

EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 128

EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1

EAL: Detected static linkage of DPDK

EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket

EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'VA'

EAL: Probe PCI driver: mlx5_pci (15b3:101e) device: 0000:60:00.1 (socket 0)

mlx5_net: Unable to recognize master/representors on the multiple IB devices.

mlx5_common: Failed to load driver mlx5_eth

EAL: Requested device 0000:60:00.1 cannot be used

EAL: Probe PCI driver: mlx5_pci (15b3:101e) device: 0000:60:00.2 (socket 0)

mlx5_net: Unable to recognize master/representors on the multiple IB devices.

mlx5_common: Failed to load driver mlx5_eth

EAL: Requested device 0000:60:00.2 cannot be used

EAL: Bus (pci) probe failed.

TELEMETRY: No legacy callbacks, legacy socket not created

testpmd: No probed ethernet devices

Interactive-mode selected

testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_0>: n=1163456, size=2176, socket=0

testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc

Done

testpmd> quit

Please provide help to resolve above.

Thanks,

Jasvinder