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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Hui Ling <kelvin.brookletling@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK mlx4 PMD on Azure VM
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Hi,

19/12/2017 08:14, Hui Ling:
> I installed DPDK 17.11 on Ubuntu 16.04. And I downloaded MLNX OFED
> 4.2-1.2.0.0 and installed up-stream libs with
> ./mlnxofedinstall --guest --dpdk --upstream-libs
> 
> MLX4 PMD in DPDK doesn't seem to work with lib from ubuntu repository
> and install OFED allows me to compile DPDK mlx4 PMD without any
> compilation problem.

The recommended setup is using Linux 4.14 with rdma-core v15, not OFED.
Please check this doc:
	http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.html#current-rdma-core-package-and-linux-kernel-recommended