[dpdk-dev] vfio bind failing

Gray, Mark D mark.d.gray at intel.com
Fri Dec 19 17:24:40 CET 2014


> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to enable vfio with a DPDK app. However, I cannot bind a NIC to
> the vfio-pci driver
> 
> * I have enabled it in the BIOS and in the kernel.
> [root at hostname tools]# cat /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.7-200.fc20.x86_64 <snip> rhgb quiet
> default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=16 iommu=on

It works now: config issue. Needed to set iommu=pt intel_iommu=on

Mark


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