Hi,


I'm trying to bring up dpdk-testpmd application using Mellanox connectX-5 ports. With a custom built dpdk, testpmd is not able to detect the ports.


OS & Kernel:

Linux debian-10 4.19.0-17-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.194-2 (2021-06-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux

The steps followed:

  *   Installed MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.9-4.0.8.0-debian10.0-x86_64 (./mlnxofedinstall --skip-distro-check --upstream-libs --dpdk)
  *   Downloaded dpdk-18.11 source, and built it after making following changes in config

           CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_PMD=y
           CONFIG_RTE_TEST_PMD_RECORD_CORE_CYCLES=y
           CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=y

  *   When I run testpmd, it is not recognizing any Mellanox ports


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root@debian-10:~/dpdk-18.11/myinstall# ./bin/testpmd -l 1-3  -w 82:00.0 --no-pci -- --total-num-mbufs 1025
EAL: Detected 24 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...
testpmd: No probed ethernet devices
testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=1025, size=2176, socket=0
testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc
testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_1>: n=1025, size=2176, socket=1
testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc
Done
No commandline core given, start packet forwarding
io packet forwarding - ports=0 - cores=0 - streams=0 - NUMA support enabled, MP allocation mode: native

  io packet forwarding packets/burst=32
  nb forwarding cores=1 - nb forwarding ports=0
Press enter to exit
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root@debian-10:~# lspci | grep Mellanox
82:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
82:00.1 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
root@debian-10:~# ibv_devinfo
hca_id:    mlx5_0
    transport:            InfiniBand (0)
    fw_ver:                16.28.4512
    node_guid:            b8ce:f603:00f2:7952
    sys_image_guid:            b8ce:f603:00f2:7952
    vendor_id:            0x02c9
    vendor_part_id:            4121
    hw_ver:                0x0
    board_id:            DEL0000000004
    phys_port_cnt:            1
        port:    1
            state:            PORT_ACTIVE (4)
            max_mtu:        4096 (5)
            active_mtu:        1024 (3)
            sm_lid:            0
            port_lid:        0
            port_lmc:        0x00
            link_layer:        Ethernet

hca_id:    mlx5_1
    transport:            InfiniBand (0)
    fw_ver:                16.28.4512
    node_guid:            b8ce:f603:00f2:7953
    sys_image_guid:            b8ce:f603:00f2:7952
    vendor_id:            0x02c9
    vendor_part_id:            4121
    hw_ver:                0x0
    board_id:            DEL0000000004
    phys_port_cnt:            1
        port:    1
            state:            PORT_ACTIVE (4)
            max_mtu:        4096 (5)
            active_mtu:        1024 (3)
            sm_lid:            0
            port_lid:        0
            port_lmc:        0x00
            link_layer:        Ethernet


I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. Any hints will be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Sindhu