[dpdk-dev] [PATCH dpdk 0/5] ppc64/spapr: Attempt to use on POWER8

[Olga Shern]

Alexey, 

Mellanox support DPDK only on Ethernet, no IB.
And yes, you need to install Mellanox drivers , OFED, to support it.

What NIC do you have? 

Best Regards,
Olga

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Olga Shern 
SW Director DPDK 
Mellanox Technologies, Raanana Israel




> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Alexey
> Kardashevskiy
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 10:24 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>; JPF at zurich.ibm.com;
> Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m at in.ibm.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH dpdk 0/5] ppc64/spapr: Attempt to use on
> POWER8
> 
> Hi!
> 
> This is my first attempt to use DPDK on POWER8 machine and yet
> unsuccessful as it turned out DPDK only supports IB-Mellanox (I only got
> ethernet-Mellanox, and requires OFED), rmmod on Intel 40Gb module
> produces PCI errors (unrelated to DPDK) and Broadcom bnx2x has few issues
> (below) and still crashes as I suspect I got DMA mapping wrong, here is a
> backtrace:
> 
> Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
> PMD: bnx2x_issue_dmae_with_comp(): DMAE timeout!
> PANIC in bnx2x_write_dmae():
> DMAE failed (-1)22: [/lib/powerpc64le-linux-
> gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xb8) [0x3fffb7c23298]]
> 21: [/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x2309c) [0x3fffb7c2309c]]
> 20: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(main+0x228) [0x100255d0]]
> 19: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(start_port+0x5dc)
> [0x1002341c]]
> 18: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(rte_eth_dev_start+0xc4)
> [0x1008b3c0]]
> 17: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10117550]]
> 16: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(bnx2x_init+0x204)
> [0x100f7210]]
> 15: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100f6888]]
> 14: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100ee7f4]]
> 13:
> [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(ecore_func_state_change+0x
> 250) [0x10127794]]
> 12: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x1012734c]]
> 11: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10126830]]
> 10: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10126618]]
> 9: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10100a98]]
> 8: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100ffe00]]
> 7: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100de614]]
> 6: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100de4cc]]
> 5: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x101063c0]]
> 4: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100e1f6c]]
> 3: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(bnx2x_write_dmae+0x11c)
> [0x100e1e40]]
> 2: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(__rte_panic+0x8c)
> [0x100b3e58]]
> 1: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(rte_dump_stack+0x40)
> [0x100b3cc4]]
> 
> Thread 1 "testpmd" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0x00003fffb7c3edb0 in __GI_raise (sig=<optimised out>) at
> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:54
> 54      ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory.
> 
> Still, some fixes are quite obvious and straigtforward.
> 
> This is based on sha1
> 2fc8e0bf0 Olivier Matz "log: fix dump of registered logs when disabled".
> 
> Please comment. Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> Alexey Kardashevskiy (5):
>   vfio/ppc64/spapr: Use correct structures for add/remove windows
>   pci: Initialize common rte driver pointer
>   RFC: bnx2x: Update firmware versions
>   vfio: Do try setting IOMMU type if already set
>   RFC: vfio/ppc64/spapr: Use correct bus addresses for DMA map
> 
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.h |  8 +++++
>  drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.c              |  4 +--
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_pci.c |  1 +
> lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++------------
> ---
>  4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 
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