Thank you for your reply! On 29.03.2022 15:43, Дмитрий Степанов wrote: > Hey! > Realtek NICs are not supported by DPDK. > You can check the list of supported HW here - > https://core.dpdk.org/supported/ > As a workaround you can setup virtual machine (e.g. using KVM) with > virtual NIC which is supported by DPDK (e.g. vmxnet3) > > BTW: here is an article where someone tried to write his own PMD for > Realtek NIC - > https://medium.com/powerof2/writing-a-pmd-for-dpdk-56e6388467a8 > > > > вт, 29 мар. 2022 г. в 11:21, Danil Onishchenko > : > > Hello, > > I'm studying DPDK and trying to create a simple application, > however it > can't see a NIC bound to DPDK. > > 1. Here is a list of network devices I have on my machine > > $ dpdk-devbind.py --status-dev net > > Network devices using kernel driver > =================================== > 0000:01:00.0 'RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet > Controller > 8168' if=enp1s0 drv=r8169 unused=vfio-pci *Active* > 0000:02:00.0 'RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter b822' if=wlp2s0 > drv=rtw_8822be unused=rtw88_8822be,vfio-pci *Active* > > 2. I disable my ethernet NIC (it can't be bound to DPDK while it is > active) and bind it to vfio-pci driver successfully > > $ ip link set enp1s0 down > $ dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci enp1s0 > > 3. Now dpdk-devbind.py shows that the NIC is using DPDK-compatible > driver > > $ dpdk-devbind.py --status-dev net > > Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver > ============================================ > 0000:01:00.0 'RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet > Controller > 8168' drv=vfio-pci unused=r8169 > > Network devices using kernel driver > =================================== > 0000:02:00.0 'RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter b822' if=wlp2s0 > drv=rtw_8822be unused=rtw88_8822be,vfio-pci *Active* > > 4. However when I run any example DPDK application it says that there > are no available NIC ports. For instance I wrote a simple application > > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) > { >      int ret; >      int total_ports, avail_ports; > >      ret = rte_eal_init(argc, argv); >      if( ret < 0 ) >          rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "EAL initialization failed\n"); > >      total_ports = rte_eth_dev_count_total(); >      avail_ports = rte_eth_dev_count_avail(); >      printf("ETH PORTS %d %d\n", total_ports, avail_ports); > >      rte_eal_cleanup(); > >      return 0; > } > > and both rte_eth_dev_count_total() and rte_eth_dev_count_avail() > return 0. > > What am I doing wrong? >