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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Jim Vaigl" <jimv@rockbridgesoftware.com>
Cc: <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK on Mellanox BlueField Ref Platform
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:18:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190924101802.273c25d9@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004101d572f5$92d479d0$b87d6d70$@com>

On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 12:31:51 -0400
"Jim Vaigl" <jimv@rockbridgesoftware.com> wrote:

> Since no one has chimed in with any build/install/configure suggestion for
> the
> BlueField, I've spent some time debugging and thought I'd share the results.
> Building the l3fwd example application and running it as the docs suggest,
> when
> I try to send it UDP packets from another machine, it dumps core.
> 
> Debugging a bit with gdb and printf, I can see that from inside
> process_packet()
> and processx4_step1() the calls to rte_pktmbuf_mtod() return Nil or
> suspicious
> pointer values (i.e. 0x80).  The sample apps don't guard against NULL
> pointers
> being returned from this rte call, so that's why it's dumping core.
> 
> I still think the problem is related to the driver config, but thought this
> might ring a bell for anyone who's had problems like this.
> 
> The thing that still bothers me is that rather than seeing what I was
> expecting
> at init based on what the documentation shows:
>     [...]
>     EAL: probe driver: 15b3:1013 librte_pmd_mlx5
> 
> ... when rte_eal_init() runs, I'm seeing:
>     [...]
>     EAL:  Selected IOVA mode 'PA'
>     EAL:  Probing VFIO support...
> 
> This still seems wrong, and I've verified that specifying the BlueField
> target ID
> string in the make is causing "CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_PMD=y" to appear in
> the .config.
> 
> Regards,
> --Jim Vaigl
> 614 886 5999
> 
> 

make sure you have latest version of rdma-core installed (v25).
The right version is not in most distros

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-24 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-24 16:31 Jim Vaigl
2019-09-24 17:18 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-09-24 19:10   ` Jim Vaigl
2019-09-26 10:59     ` Asaf Penso
2019-09-26 19:46       ` Jim Vaigl
2019-10-04 17:35       ` Jim Vaigl
2019-10-04 18:28         ` Kiran Vedere
2019-10-07 16:52           ` Jim Vaigl
2019-10-07 17:00             ` Kiran Vedere
2019-10-07 17:02               ` Kiran Vedere
2019-10-07 18:10               ` Jim Vaigl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-09-20 19:34 Jim Vaigl

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