From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from na01-by2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-by2on0074.outbound.protection.outlook.com [207.46.100.74]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DEE22E8D for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 04:33:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from BY1PR03MB1338.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (10.162.109.20) by BY1PR03MB1338.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (10.162.109.20) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.1.331.20; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:33:33 +0000 Received: from BY1PR03MB1338.namprd03.prod.outlook.com ([10.162.109.20]) by BY1PR03MB1338.namprd03.prod.outlook.com ([10.162.109.20]) with mapi id 15.01.0331.019; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:33:33 +0000 From: Karmarkar Suyash To: "dev@dpdk.org" Thread-Topic: DPDK 1.6 and Cisco VIC-NIC pmd fails to initialize with VMWare ESX 5.5 Thread-Index: AdEieuvDguC6M3DMR6qHixKwN05lKA== Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:33:33 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: authentication-results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=skarmarkar@sonusnet.com; x-originating-ip: [106.51.139.66] x-microsoft-exchange-diagnostics: 1; BY1PR03MB1338; 5:CcECq0DC+lExCkAUeUlpzs1k2SWMAN7sfqc32P3zqqPh6Xik422f4eeMCIxuKFG73oOCTEgbh8aWHgJjKSXb/ynHZUeyxBS+XdqWoNzX+1dcHE6dvFJeK3SqqsdGpe2V6t1ZKWDi0XhjNGX9qW6WJQ==; 24:qK4jm63URElZnDAYXmJf/tbievLl6siP2/UE6qukSaTPReYdVARVvAUec2BFm6uRihn3VE7kacj26rkaSChCuDjaskyLktkZI56yJv5WK+k= x-microsoft-antispam: UriScan:;BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:;SRVR:BY1PR03MB1338; x-microsoft-antispam-prvs: x-exchange-antispam-report-test: UriScan:(108003899814671); x-exchange-antispam-report-cfa-test: BCL:0; PCL:0; RULEID:(601004)(2401047)(8121501046)(520078)(5005006)(10201501046)(3002001); SRVR:BY1PR03MB1338; BCL:0; PCL:0; RULEID:; SRVR:BY1PR03MB1338; x-forefront-prvs: 07658B8EA3 x-forefront-antispam-report: SFV:NSPM; SFS:(10009020)(6009001)(189002)(53754006)(199003)(450100001)(105586002)(2501003)(122556002)(99286002)(11100500001)(2351001)(229853001)(50986999)(5003600100002)(54356999)(5002640100001)(66066001)(110136002)(19580395003)(19300405004)(107886002)(2900100001)(5001960100002)(86362001)(16236675004)(19625215002)(33656002)(189998001)(5008740100001)(101416001)(40100003)(586003)(92566002)(81156007)(74316001)(87936001)(5004730100002)(77096005)(106356001)(15975445007)(3846002)(97736004)(10400500002)(102836003)(76576001)(790700001)(5007970100001)(6116002); DIR:OUT; SFP:1101; SCL:1; SRVR:BY1PR03MB1338; H:BY1PR03MB1338.namprd03.prod.outlook.com; FPR:; SPF:None; PTR:InfoNoRecords; MX:1; A:1; LANG:en; received-spf: None (protection.outlook.com: sonusnet.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) spamdiagnosticoutput: 1:23 spamdiagnosticmetadata: NSPM MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: sonusnet.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 19 Nov 2015 03:33:33.4606 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: 29a671dc-ed7e-4a54-b1e5-8da1eb495dc3 X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: BY1PR03MB1338 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK 1.6 and Cisco VIC-NIC pmd fails to initialize with VMWare ESX 5.5 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:33:37 -0000 Hello All, I am trying some experiments with DPDK 1.6 and Cisco NIC - (0000:06:00.0 Ne= twork controller: Cisco Systems Inc. Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC [vmnic0]), on t= he guest I am using VMXNET3 as interface/pmd and one weird behavior that is= see is with VMWare ESX 5.5 DPDK is not able to initialize the NIC and I ge= t the error rte_eth_dev_start failed with error code as, but same NIC and w= ith DPDK 1.6 version works fine with VMWare ESX 6.0 and with VMXNET3 PMD. Two questions: 1. Is there any dependency with VMWare version ESX (5.0/5.1/6.0) with D= PDK Release version (1.6/1.7/2.x)? If yes can you please let me know? 2. If we are not using the NIC in pass-through mode and we are using it= via Hypervisor - vmxnet3 or virtio pmd is there still a dependency for the= list of NIC's supported by DPDK? Regards Suyash