[dpdk-users] docker container, EAL: failed to initialize virtio_user0 device

[Tan, Jianfeng]

Hi,


On 5/21/2017 11:53 AM, Wu, Xiaoban wrote:
> Hi DPDK Users,
>
>
> I am trying to use docker container and ovs(2.6.0)-dpdk(16.07) to setup a test. I want to setup two docker containers, each of them will use a virtual device (socket) created by the ovs-dpdk. The final purpose would let the two containers talk to each other.
>
>
> Setup ovs-dpdk
>
>    1.  ovsdb-tool create $ovs-dir/etc/openvswitch/conf.db $ovs-dir/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema
>    2.  ovsdb-server --remote=punix:$ovs-dir/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,Open_vSwitch,manager_options --pidfile --detach
>    3.  ovs-vsctl --no-wait set Open_vSwitch . other_config:dpdk-init=true
>    4.  ovs-vsctl --no-wait set Open_vSwitch . other_config:dpdk-socket-mem="512,512"
>    5.  ovs-vswitchd  unix:$ovs-dir/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock --pidfile --detach  --log-file=$ovs-dir/temp.log
>
> Setup bridge and ports
>
>    1.  ovs-vsctl add-br br0 -- set bridge br0 datapath_type=netdev
>    2.  ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vhost-user1 -- set Interface vhost-user1 type=dpdkvhostuser ofport_request=1
>    3.  ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vhost-user2 -- set Interface vhost-user2 type=dpdkvhostuser ofport_request=2
>    4.  ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 priority=1000,in_port=1,actions=output:2
>    5.  ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 priority=1000,in_port=2,actions=output:1
>
> Run the docker container
>
>    1.  docker run -it --privileged -v $ovs-dir/var/run/openvswitch/vhost-user1:/var/run/usvhost -v /mnt/huge/:/dev/hugepages/ $docker-image bash
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> Run the dpdk application in the docker container
>
>    1.  $dpdk-app -c 0x01 --socket-mem=128,0 --vdev=virtio_user0,path=/var/run/usvhost --file-prefix="docker1"
>
> However, I encountered this error
> PMD: vhost_user_setup(): connect error, Connection refused

Seems that OVS is not listening on this unix socket. Could you check OVS 
log to see if the vhost-user ports are created successfully?

Thanks,
Jianfeng

> PMD: virtio_user_dev_init(): backend set up fails
> PMD: virtio_user_pmd_devinit(): virtio_user_dev_init fails
> EAL: failed to initialize virtio_user0 device
>
> It seems like the application in the docker container cannot connect the socket created by the ovs-dpdk.
>
> Can anybody please help me and point out some possible solutions? Looking forward to your reply. Thanks very much for your help.
>
> Best wishes,
> Xiaoban
>