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From: "Ding, HengX" <hengx.ding@intel.com>
To: "yongwang@vmware.com" <yongwang@vmware.com>
Cc: "Xu, Qian Q" <qian.q.xu@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] vmxnet3 can't work now and found the patch which broke it.
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 03:30:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6EBE0505FB6FBE47AB600802285284524B853BAD@CDSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)


Testpmd will fail to start up with vmxnet3 port. You can reproduce this issue follow these steps:


1.       Right click your VM and click edit settings

2.       Click "Add..." button.

3.       Choose Ethernet Adapter and click next

4.       Choose vmxnet3 as the Adapter Type, and select a network connection. Click next and finish config.

5.       Add another vmxnet3 port to VM follow step 1-4.

6.       Compile dpdk, bind vmxnet3 port to igb_uio and run testpmd: ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c f -n 4 -- -i


Here is the  bisect result:
f598fd063bb17eba9310ff48164014d09f40c759 is the first bad commit
commit f598fd063bb17eba9310ff48164014d09f40c759
Author: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 12 18:08:35 2016 -0800

    vmxnet3: add Tx L4 checksum offload

    Support TCP/UDP checksum offload.

    Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
    Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

:040000 040000 4524306879c4c0093ac54b0c66b8a8f895af8337 8e1473e7cc9052003abe6caae8e8b232810972d4 M      doc
:040000 040000 ad9cd888717dd976a43cfe05aaf33f3b83a2f7bc 9fbd6fefb95f67bb407bb9a7efcf39e707ab21a7 M      drivers

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