[dpdk-users] Running DPDK as non-root
Vincent JARDIN
vincent.jardin at 6wind.com
Thu Aug 25 15:56:23 CEST 2016
John,
> EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
> EAL: Cannot open /proc/self/pagemap: Operation not permitted. virt2phys
> address translation will not work
> PANIC in rte_eal_init():
> Cannot init memory
>
> I tried to change the permissions on /proc/self/pagemap, but that is
> disallowed, even if I try it as root.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get around this problem?
assuming that you are using a Mellanox CX3 or CX4 PCI boards, you maybe
able to update the code to avoid access to pagemap. pagemap is used to
get and then cache the physaddr. However, since Verbs are used to
register memory by these 2 PMDs, the physical address is not needed.
A dirty hack could be to store any dummy values, and you should be good
almost to go.
best regards,
Vincent
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