[dpdk-users] DPDK mlx4 PMD on Azure VM

[Ophir Munk]

Hi Hui,
Can you please let know if running testpmd with just one PCI device you are getting the same error?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 6:22 PM
> To: Hui Ling <kelvin.brookletling at gmail.com>
> Cc: users at dpdk.org; Ophir Munk <ophirmu at mellanox.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK mlx4 PMD on Azure VM
> 
> 19/12/2017 08:14, Hui Ling:
> > I installed DPDK 17.11 on Ubuntu 16.04. And I downloaded MLNX OFED
> > 4.2-1.2.0.0 and installed up-stream libs with ./mlnxofedinstall
> > --guest --dpdk --upstream-libs
> >
> > MLX4 PMD in DPDK doesn't seem to work with lib from ubuntu repository
> > and install OFED allows me to compile DPDK mlx4 PMD without any
> > compilation problem.
> >
> > Then I tried to see if the mlx4 PMD works or not by running:
> >
> > root at myVM:
> > ./build/app/testpmd -l 1-2 -n 4 -w 0003:00:02.0 -w 0004:00:02.0 --
> > --rxq=2 --txq=2 -i
> [...]
> > Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
> > PMD: mlx4_rxq.c:811: mlx4_rx_queue_setup(): 0xde0740: MR creation
> > failure: Operation not permitted
> 
> [...]
> > I also tried to run DPDK 17.11 on Ubuntu 17.10. It didn't work either.
> > the testpmd hangs during "configuring Port 0" forever.
> 
> So you see 2 different errors on Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.10.
> What are the Linux kernel versions?
> 
> > Can someone from MS or Mellanox help me figure out why? and how to
> > make mlx4 PMD work on Azure VM?
> 
> Mellanox will support you.