[dpdk-users] PMD: eth_ixgbevf_dev_init(): VF Initialization Failure: -15

[Ori Zakin]

Can you run “ip link” on host?
Check if the physical device is up.

Ori
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 14:09:04 -0400
> From: Sandeep Rayapudi <rayapudisandeep at gmail.com>
> To: users at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-users] PMD: eth_ixgbevf_dev_init(): VF Initialization
> 	Failure: -15
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> 	<CAJU=zSW2A3u36H2O2Nhizc2ME1E-EHE9KvBPDHzqT3kXSY5TxQ at mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> Hi all, when i tried to run pktgen/testpmd on the container with SR-IOV VF,
> VF Init fails with error code -15. Any inputs please?
> 
> Steps I followed are:
> 
> 1.       Create a Virtual Function on NIC
> 
> a.       Add boot option for the host: *iommu=pt intel_iommu=on*
> 
> b.      Without this option, we're unable to edit the file:
> /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:05:00.0/sriov_numvfs
> 
> c.       After reboot, echo *1* > sriov_numvfs
> 
> d.      Now, we're able to see *1 *Virtual Function in *lspci | grep -i
> ethernet* output
> 
> e.      Now dpdk-devbind tool displays that the virtual function bound to
> *ixgbevf*
> 
> 2.       Bind the VF NIC to vfio-pci
> 
> 3.       Create the mountpoint
> 
> 4.       Start the container with:
> 
> a.       docker run --privileged -itd -v */dev/vfio/vfio0:/dev/vfio/vfio0*
> -v /mnt/huge_c0/:/dev/hugepages/ -v
> /sys/bus/pci/drivers:/sys/bus/pci/drivers -v
> /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages:/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages -v
> /sys/devices/system/node:/sys/devices/system/node -v /dev:/dev -v /usr:/usr
> -v /lib:/lib
> 
> 5.       Start DPDK application
> 
> ./app/app/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/pktgen -c 0x1f -n 3 -- -P -m "2.0"
> 
> 
> Copyright (c) <2010-2016>, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Powered
> by Intel? DPDK
> 
> EAL: Detected 28 lcore(s)
> 
> EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
> 
> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
> 
> EAL: VFIO support initialized
> 
> PMD: bnxt_rte_pmd_init() called for (null)
> 
> EAL: PCI device 0000:04:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
> 
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:10fb rte_ixgbe_pmd
> 
> EAL: PCI device 0000:04:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
> 
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:10fb rte_ixgbe_pmd
> 
> EAL: PCI device 0000:05:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
> 
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:10fb rte_ixgbe_pmd
> 
> EAL: PCI device 0000:05:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
> 
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:10fb rte_ixgbe_pmd
> 
> EAL: PCI device 0000:05:10.0 on NUMA socket 0
> 
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:10ed rte_ixgbevf_pmd
> 
> EAL:   using IOMMU type 1 (Type 1)
> 
> PMD: eth_ixgbevf_dev_init(): VF Initialization Failure: -15
> 
> EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
> 
>  Cause: Requested device 0000:05:10.0 cannot be used
> 
> Thanks,
> Sandeep