Re: [dpdk-dev] Fedora 28 fails DPDK 18.11 on Azure/Hyper-V

[Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>]

Hi Stephen,

On 11/26/18 10:30 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Started testing DPDK support of Hyper-V in Fedora and discovered that it doesn't work.
> Looks like the multiq qdisc is not in the default Fedora kernel configuration.
> Hopefully CentOS/RHEL don't have the same problem.
> 
> Not sure why SCH_MULTIQ is in the shipped kernel config files but not present.
> Looks like a Fedora build or packaging issue.
> 
> # grep MULTIQ /boot/config*
> /boot/config-4.18.13-200.fc28.x86_64:CONFIG_NET_SCH_MULTIQ=m
> /boot/config-4.18.18-200.fc28.x86_64:CONFIG_NET_SCH_MULTIQ=m
> /boot/config-4.19.2-200.fc28.x86_64:CONFIG_NET_SCH_MULTIQ=m
> 
> # modinfo sch_multiq
> modinfo: ERROR: Module sch_multiq not found.


Seems to be present on RHEL 7.6:
# grep MULTIQ /boot/config*
/boot/config-3.10.0-927.el7.x86_64:CONFIG_NET_SCH_MULTIQ=m
/boot/config-3.10.0-933.el7.x86_64:CONFIG_NET_SCH_MULTIQ=m

# modinfo sch_multiq
filename: 
/lib/modules/3.10.0-933.el7.x86_64/kernel/net/sched/sch_multiq.ko.xz
license:        GPL
retpoline:      Y
rhelversion:    7.6
srcversion:     E65D76B5C459DE4C471B696
depends:
intree:         Y
vermagic:       3.10.0-933.el7.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
signer:         Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel signing key
sig_key:        51:AD:1E:39:2F:4C:2C:3D:D9:21:F2:2D:5E:F4:44:CF:93:BA:28:8C
sig_hashalgo:   sha256


I also tried on Fedora 28, and confirm the module isn't installed.


> 
> Testpmd log is:
> # dpdk-testpmd --log-level 8 --log-level 'pmd.net.failsafe:debug' -l 1,2 -n 4 -- -i
> EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
> EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
> EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
> EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
> EAL: WARNING: cpu flags constant_tsc=yes nonstop_tsc=no -> using unreliable clock cycles !
> EAL: PCI device a1e0:00:02.0 on NUMA socket 0
> EAL:   probe driver: 15b3:1014 net_mlx5
> net_mlx5: MPLS over GRE/UDP tunnel offloading disabled due to old OFED/rdma-core version or firmware configuration
> net_failsafe: Initializing Fail-safe PMD for net_failsafe_vsc0
> net_failsafe: Creating fail-safe device on NUMA socket 0
> net_failsafe: a1e0:00:02.0
> net_failsafe: net_tap_vsc0,remote=eth1
> net_failsafe: Failsafe port 1 owner info: Fail-safe_0000000000000001
> net_failsafe: Taking control of a probed sub device 0 named a1e0:00:02.0
> rte_pmd_tap_probe(): Initializing pmd_tap for net_tap_vsc0 as dtap0
> qdisc_create_multiq(): Could not add multiq qdisc (2): No such file or directory
> eth_dev_tap_create(): dtap0: failed to create multiq qdisc.
> eth_dev_tap_create():  Disabling rte flow support: No such file or directory(2)
> eth_dev_tap_create(): Remote feature requires flow support.
> eth_dev_tap_create(): TAP Unable to initialize net_tap_vsc0
> EAL: Driver cannot attach the device (net_tap_vsc0)
> EAL: Failed to attach device on primary process
>