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From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
To: Royce Niu <royceniu@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Cannot use MLX4 with igb_uio driver
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 16:13:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170109151353.GZ12822@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOwUCNvmQOv3ZUwOCq+kevPwyAxOAH+V=ucsxMKFkApusHWnYw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Royce,

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:53:37PM +0800, Royce Niu wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I cannot use my Mellanox 3 Pro, after I binded it with igb_uio driver.
> 
> It always shows when I use my DPDK application.
> 
> EAL: Detected 32 lcore(s)
> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
> PMD: bnxt_rte_pmd_init() called for (null)
> EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 rte_igb_pmd
> EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 rte_igb_pmd
> EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.2 on NUMA socket 0
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 rte_igb_pmd
> EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.3 on NUMA socket 0
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 rte_igb_pmd
> EAL: PCI device 0000:81:00.0 on NUMA socket 1
> EAL:   probe driver: 15b3:1007 librte_pmd_mlx4
> PMD: librte_pmd_mlx4: cannot access device, is mlx4_ib loaded?
> EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
>   Cause: Cannot create mbuf pool
> 
> ---------------
> I have added CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX4_PMD=y in .config, and
> install MLNX_OFED_LINUX-3.4-2.0.0.0.

The mlx4 PMD does not operate through igb_uio (see mlx4 documentation [1]),
PCI devices must remain bound to their original kernel module (mlx4_core),
however you have to additionally load mlx4_ib, mlx4_en and ib_uverbs [2].

[1] http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.html
[2] http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.html#prerequisites

-- 
Adrien Mazarguil
6WIND

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-09 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-09 14:53 Royce Niu
2017-01-09 15:13 ` Adrien Mazarguil [this message]
2017-01-09 15:23   ` Royce Niu
2017-01-09 16:13     ` Adrien Mazarguil
2017-01-09 16:57       ` Royce Niu

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