[dpdk-dev] EAL: Error reading from file descriptor 17: Input/output error in DPDK 1.8.0

[Jim Kao]

I do have Intel 8250 Gigabit Ethernet but run into error in testpmd with DPDK 1.8.0. 

Is this a known issue or I might miss something

root at debian:/home/jkao/Media/dpdk-1.8.0# tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py --status

Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
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0000:06:04.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' drv=igb_uio unused=

Network devices using kernel driver
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0000:03:00.0 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller' if=eth0 drv=r8169 unused=igb_uio *Active*

Other network devices
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root at debian:/home/jkao/Media/dpdk-1.8.0# build/app/testpmd -c7 -n3 | more
EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 1 on socket 0
EAL: Detected lcore 2 as core 2 on socket 0
EAL: Detected lcore 3 as core 3 on socket 0
EAL: Detected lcore 4 as core 0 on socket 0
EAL: Detected lcore 5 as core 1 on socket 0
EAL: Detected lcore 6 as core 2 on socket 0
EAL: Detected lcore 7 as core 3 on socket 0
EAL: Support maximum 128 logical core(s) by configuration.
EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
EAL: Setting up memory...
EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x8000000 bytes
EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fa36ea00000 (size = 0x8000000)
EAL: Requesting 64 pages of size 2MB from socket 0
EAL: TSC frequency is ~2931250 KHz
EAL: Master core 0 is ready (tid=77909800)
PMD: ENICPMD trace: rte_enic_pmd_init
EAL: Core 2 is ready (tid=6d95d700)
EAL: Core 1 is ready (tid=6e1ae700)
EAL: PCI device 0000:06:04.0 on NUMA socket -1
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:100e rte_em_pmd
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fa376a00000
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fa376a20000
--More-- 
PMD: eth_em_dev_init(): port_id 0 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x100e
EAL: Error reading from file descriptor 17: Input/output error
EAL: Error reading from file descriptor 17: Input/output error

Jim