[dpdk-dev] DPDK on IBM Power9

Daniel Waddington Daniel.Waddington at ibm.com
Wed Jan 9 23:25:42 CET 2019


Hi,
I'm trying to run DPDK 18.11 on IBM Power9.  Should it run?  (I'n new to DPDK on Power). 
Thx,
Daniel
Below is what I get:
 
$ sudo ./examples/ethtool/ethtool-app/ppc_64-power8-linuxapp-gcc/app/ethtool --iova-mode=pa -c7 -w 0000:01:00.0
EAL: Detected 128 lcore(s)
EAL: Detected 2 NUMA nodes
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
EAL: VFIO support initialized
EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
EAL:   using IOMMU type 7 (sPAPR)
EAL:   cannot create new DMA window, error 22 (Invalid argument)
EAL: Could not create new DMA window
EAL:   0000:01:00.0 DMA remapping failed, error 22 (Invalid argument)
EAL: Requested device 0000:01:00.0 cannot be used
Number of NICs: 0
EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
  Cause: No available NIC ports!





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