[dpdk-dev] Vmxnet3-pmd not receiving ANY packets

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed May 14 16:32:08 CEST 2014


Hi,

2014-05-14 09:57, HS:
> I'm having a problem with vmxnet-pmd.  When I bind vmxnet3 vNIC to
> vmxnet3-pmd, I cannot receive ANY packets from vmxnet-pmd.
> 
> I'm running dpdk-1.6.0r2 inside ESXi 5.5 VM.   The VM has kernel
> 3.11.0-12-generic.
[...]
> "0000:13:00.0" (Port 1) is bound to vmxnet3_pmd.  I cannot receive ANY
> packets from this port.

It's difficult to understand your issue without knowing your system 
configuration and the command line you used.

By the way, have you tested the vmxnet3 PMD which doesn't use UIO?
	http://dpdk.org/browse/vmxnet3-usermap
	http://dpdk.org/doc/vmxnet3-usermap

-- 
Thomas


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