Re: [dpdk-users] pktgen - !PANIC!: *** Did not find any ports to use ***

[Sara Gittlin <sara.gittlin@gmail.com>]

Thank you Stephen and Keith
trying your suggestions ..
Stephen - regarding your PS - I'm really sorry - I did not mean to
prioritise  myself - just pasted the error msg. I'll remember your
recommendation ..
Regards
-Sara


On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 5:02 PM Stephen Hemminger <
stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 May 2019 08:33:35 +0300
> Sara Gittlin <sara.gittlin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello
> > According the dpdk release notes - my NIC   - Onboard NIC: *Intel(R)
> > X552*/X557-AT
> > (2x10G) was tested
> >
> > Tested Platforms
> >
> > ----------------
> >
> >
> > #. SuperMicro 1U
> >
> >
> >    - BIOS: 1.0c
> >
> >    - Processor: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz
> >
> >
> > #. SuperMicro 1U
> >
> >
> >    - BIOS: 1.0a
> >
> >    - Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1540 @ 2.00GHz
> >
> >    *- Onboard NIC: Intel(R) X552/X557-AT (2x10G)*
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > -Sara
> >
> > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 5:56 PM Sara Gittlin <sara.gittlin@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you Stephen
> > > i can run pktgen on the host  with same 2 VF's
> > > Regards
> > > -Sara
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 5:52 PM Stephen Hemminger <
> > > stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Mon, 27 May 2019 17:44:17 +0300
> > >> Sara Gittlin <sara.gittlin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Hello ,
> > >> > I'm running pktgen on a ubuntu-16.0p4 VM w 3 CPU's,
> > >> > I added  2 SRIOV VFs  devices to the VM - and i can see them w
> lspci or
> > >> > dpdk-devbind --status
> > >> > 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection
> X552
> > >> > Virtual Function
> > >> > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection
> X552
> > >> > Virtual Function
> > >>
> > >> Most likely these devices are missing/not supported by DPDK driver.
> > >> Look at the numeric id's (lspci -n) and compare them with the list
> > >> of pci ids in the driver source.
> > >>
> > >> In the past with Intel devices it also helped to look at the Linux
> > >> kernel driver. Sometimes the missing id's were there and some small
> > >> changes to the MAC code was necessary to get them to work.
>
> Walking backwards from PCI to device.
>
> 1. The PCI id table for lspci is in /usr/share/misc/pci.ids
>    The entry for X552 is:
>         15a9  X552 Virtual Function
>    Therefore the PCI vendor:device is 8086:15a9
>
> 4. On Linux this device is under ixgbevf as
>
> #define IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_X_VF_HV        0x15A9
>
> static const struct pci_device_id ixgbevf_pci_tbl[] = {
>         {PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, IXGBE_DEV_ID_82599_VF), board_82599_vf },
>         {PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, IXGBE_DEV_ID_82599_VF_HV), board_82599_vf_hv },
>         {PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X540_VF), board_X540_vf },
>         {PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X540_VF_HV), board_X540_vf_hv },
>         {PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550_VF), board_X550_vf },
>         {PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550_VF_HV), board_X550_vf_hv },
>         {PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_X_VF), board_X550EM_x_vf }
>         {PCI_VDEVICE(INTEL, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_VF), board_x550em_a_vf },
>         /* required last entry */
>         {0, }
> };
>
>    Conclusion: you are using X552 on Hyper-V.
>
> 5. In DPDK, similar table is ixgbe_ethdev.
>
> /*
>  * The set of PCI devices this driver supports (for 82599 VF)
>  */
> static const struct rte_pci_id pci_id_ixgbevf_map[] = {
>         { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IXGBE_INTEL_VENDOR_ID, IXGBE_DEV_ID_82599_VF) },
>         { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IXGBE_INTEL_VENDOR_ID, IXGBE_DEV_ID_82599_VF_HV)
> },
>         { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IXGBE_INTEL_VENDOR_ID, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X540_VF) },
>         { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IXGBE_INTEL_VENDOR_ID, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X540_VF_HV) },
>         { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IXGBE_INTEL_VENDOR_ID, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550_VF_HV) },
>         { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IXGBE_INTEL_VENDOR_ID, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550_VF) },
>         { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IXGBE_INTEL_VENDOR_ID, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_VF)
> },
>         { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IXGBE_INTEL_VENDOR_ID,
> IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_A_VF_HV) },
>         { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IXGBE_INTEL_VENDOR_ID, IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_X_VF)
> },
>         { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IXGBE_INTEL_VENDOR_ID,
> IXGBE_DEV_ID_X550EM_X_VF_HV) },
>         { .vendor_id = 0, /* sentinel */ },
> };
>
> So the device is supported...
>
>
> A different possibility is that since you are running on Hyper-V (at least
> according to the device ids) is that vdev_netvsc device is trying to setup
> tap
> failsafe and messing the port numbers around.
> Try disabling it by setting this in the config.
>
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VDEV_NETVSC_PMD=n
>
>
>
>
> PS: Top posting is not preferred on open source mailing lists.
>