[dpdk-dev] Testpmd not recognising device/port even after binding it using the python script

[Aniraj Kesavan <anirajkesavan@gmail.com>]

DPDK version:16.07
OS: Ubuntu 15:04
dual-port Intel X710 10GbE PCI-Express NICs

I have installed the modules, ran the tool to bind them to the NICs,
running gdb over skeleton/basicfwd example shows that rte_eal_init
completes, but it fails at the even number of ports check since
rte_eth_dev_count returns 0. I have tried the examples with and without -w
flags.

Any help is appreciated.

python ./dpdk-devbind.py --status

Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
============================================
0000:04:00.0 'Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+' drv=igb_uio unused=
0000:04:00.1 'Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+' drv=igb_uio unused=

Network devices using kernel driver
===================================
0000:02:00.0 'NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe' if=eth0 drv=tg3
unused=igb_uio *Active*
0000:02:00.1 'NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe' if=eth1 drv=tg3
unused=igb_uio
0000:06:00.0 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection' if=eth2 drv=igb
unused=igb_uio
0000:06:00.1 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection' if=eth4 drv=igb
unused=igb_uio
0000:06:00.2 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection' if=eth5 drv=igb
unused=igb_uio
0000:06:00.3 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection' if=eth6 drv=igb
unused=igb_uio


LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../lib ./testpmd -c 0xF -n 4 -w 0000:04:00.0 0000:04:00.1
-- -i --portmask=0x1 --nb-cores=2
EAL: Detected 32 lcore(s)
EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-2048kB
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
EAL: No probed ethernet devices
Interactive-mode selected
Invalid port 0
USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=171456, size=2176,
socket=0
Done

Thanks,
Aniraj

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Aniraj Kesavan

MS CS '15-'17,
University Of Utah
CS '08-'12,
Govt. Model Engineering College
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http://www.cs.utah.edu/~aniraj/