[dpdk-users] Running DPDK on Google Cloud Compute Engine (GCE)

[Rex Shang]

Hi all

Just wondering if anyone has successfully have DPDK running on VM inside Google Cloud.  I’ve tried similar set up on my Mac Book Pro with Virtual Box and had success.  Using similar recipe, I can’t have testpmd pass the initialization.  Before I spend too much time, just wondering if I am working on mission impossible.  ;)  Your input is greatly appreciated.

Here is my setup:
Google Cloud Compute Engine
4 vCore with 8 GB of memory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
3 NIC with 2 used for DPDK (driver: net_virtio); I am a bit doubtful about this NIC but so far the NIC is up with “igb_uio"

Rex

------------

EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
EAL: VFIO support initialized
EAL: PCI device 0000:00:04.0 on NUMA socket -1
EAL:   Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0
EAL:   probe driver: 1af4:1000 net_virtio
EAL: PCI device 0000:00:05.0 on NUMA socket -1
EAL:   Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0
EAL:   probe driver: 1af4:1000 net_virtio
EAL: PCI device 0000:00:06.0 on NUMA socket -1
EAL:   Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0
EAL:   probe driver: 1af4:1000 net_virtio
Interactive-mode selected
USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=163456, size=2176, socket=0
Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
Fail to configure port 0
EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
  Cause: Start ports failed