[dpdk-users] Using Mellanox ConnectX-3 for DPDK

[Thomas Monjalon]

Hi,

06/02/2018 00:01, Rohan Gandhi:
> Hello All,
> 
> 1) I am trying to use Mellanox ConnectX-3 to use DPDK on my server
> (Ubuntu 16.04 kernel 4.13.0-32-generic).
> 
> 2) Using dpdk/usertools/dpdk-setup.sh, I can see that the Mellanox
> interface is dpdk compatible.
> 
> Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
> ============================================
> 0000:01:00.0 'MT27520 Family [ConnectX-3 Pro] 1007' drv=vfio-pci unused=igb_uio

Mellanox drivers do not use neither UIO nor VFIO.


> 3) When I try to use Moongen to use this interface, it returned an
> error that it cannot detect the device.
> 
> [INFO]  Found 0 usable devices:
> [FATAL] Lua error in task master
> ...ace/dpdk/moongen/MoonGen/build/../libmoon/lua/device.lua:100: there
> are only 0 ports, tried to configure port id 1
> 
> 
> The same setup works with my other Intel NIC. I am not sure what I am
> doing wrong. Can you please help?

Please read the documentation:
	http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.html#usage-example