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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Henry,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you very much for your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have a I350 chipset based NIC, can you tell me why I will not be able to run l2fwd or l3fwd successfully with SR-IOV enabled in ESXi?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Rui<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Henry Wang [mailto:wang_hr@neusoft.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 09, 2013 6:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rui Vaz (ruvaz)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> dev@dpdk.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_eth_dev_count() returns 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#3333FF">As far as I known, DPDK(1.2.3) only supports the following NICs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#3333FF">(1) Intel 82576, 82580, I350 chipset based NICs;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#3333FF">(2) Intel 82599, X540T, X520T chipset based NICs;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#3333FF">(3) virtual NICs generated by SR-IOV from (2).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#3333FF">If the NICs on your C220 M3 is one of (2), you can run l2fwdvf OR l3fwdvf successfully with SR-IOV enabled in ESXi.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#3333FF">And I do not know wheather ESXi 5.0 VMM has SR-IOV function or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#3333FF">Further more, please reference to DPDK release notes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#3333FF"><a href="http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/release-notes/intel-dpdk-release-notes.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/release-notes/intel-dpdk-release-notes.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Rui Vaz (ruvaz) <<a href="mailto:ruvaz@cisco.com" target="_blank">ruvaz@cisco.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi dev-dpdk,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I am following a Intel DPDK Step by Step Instruction found here:
<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/hisaki/intel-dpdk-step-by-step-instructions" target="_blank">
http://www.slideshare.net/hisaki/intel-dpdk-step-by-step-instructions</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">My Hello app from the DPDK examples runs fine, but I get the following error when running the l2fwd app:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">“EAL: Error – exiting with code: 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Cause: no Ethernet ports – bye”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The rte_eth_dev_count() call returns 0, I am using a CentOS 6.3 Virtual Machine on VMWare esxi 5.0 on a Cisco UCS C220 M3 which comes with
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Xeon E5-2600.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I would really appreciate If you could provide some help to solve this issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Rui<o:p></o:p></p>
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