From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from na01-bn1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-bn1on0089.outbound.protection.outlook.com [157.56.110.89]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755F15A68 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 06:46:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from BY1PR03MB1338.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (10.162.109.20) by BY1PR03MB1467.namprd03.prod.outlook.com (10.162.210.13) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.1.325.17; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 05:46:37 +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 05:46:37 +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: AdEieuvDguC6M3DMR6qHixKwN05lKAAEnO/Q Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 05:46:37 +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; BY1PR03MB1467; 5:WjPnRLbiMTW9MVA4FweFkYPa2QD+3LX/LUjp9E/OiCKT0FlczCVrUqWDYONafe9bR1M5C9SIhbrYYHXi/22LXJOWnKnLuIme0pYgjFIdGVQjjkc4P43/adlAW2enk8RMxyqLYN0JS9VbfdAlvmseeg==; 24:deHUbzdICdMDBGsneH6y4AeTS59ahABLKm8B5d67abSqVj4o8Qy9tH7ea7iAOzCymy3zp/I+nB+CGBZUwB0qnJPUoJvrKJG3Jwzpbh9ddoM=; 20:ogod7jKaKpK8n67weig5cPSfbLC9XJhrDMCgz7Xv9bGt3iJ+oacCz9Wg4uBS77I0qSEAlk6cwj15xqVoP84p9Q== x-microsoft-antispam: UriScan:;BCL:0;PCL:0;RULEID:;SRVR:BY1PR03MB1467; x-microsoft-antispam-prvs: x-exchange-antispam-report-test: UriScan:(108003899814671); x-exchange-antispam-report-cfa-test: BCL:0; PCL:0; RULEID:(601004)(2401047)(520078)(5005006)(8121501046)(10201501046)(3002001); SRVR:BY1PR03MB1467; BCL:0; PCL:0; RULEID:; SRVR:BY1PR03MB1467; x-forefront-prvs: 07658B8EA3 x-forefront-antispam-report: SFV:NSPM; SFS:(10009020)(199003)(377454003)(189002)(53754006)(5002640100001)(15395725005)(790700001)(54356999)(122556002)(50986999)(19625215002)(5008740100001)(189998001)(92566002)(4001430100002)(6116002)(11100500001)(86362001)(3846002)(5003600100002)(102836003)(40100003)(76576001)(33656002)(16236675004)(5004730100002)(2501003)(105586002)(450100001)(77096005)(19300405004)(66066001)(586003)(2351001)(101416001)(19580405001)(107886002)(19580395003)(10400500002)(5001920100001)(19617315012)(5001960100002)(15975445007)(87936001)(97736004)(5007970100001)(99286002)(81156007)(110136002)(74316001)(2900100001)(106356001); DIR:OUT; SFP:1101; SCL:1; SRVR:BY1PR03MB1467; H:BY1PR03MB1338.namprd03.prod.outlook.com; FPR:; SPF:None; PTR:InfoNoRecords; A:1; MX: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 05:46:37.0578 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: 29a671dc-ed7e-4a54-b1e5-8da1eb495dc3 X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: BY1PR03MB1467 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Cc: "Garrepally, Anil" Subject: Re: [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 05:46:40 -0000 I was looking at older thread here it mentions the kernel vmxnet3 pmd depen= dency with Vmware tsc map, Is this the reason why the CISCO NIC is coming u= p fine on ESX 6.0 which will have higher version/updated driver and ESX 5.5= has older version of the driver and because of incompatability the NIC is = not coming up and initialization fails? Thanks. http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-July/000302.html From: Karmarkar Suyash Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 9:03 AM To: 'dev@dpdk.org' Subject: DPDK 1.6 and Cisco VIC-NIC pmd fails to initialize with VMWare ESX= 5.5 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