[dpdk-users] Pktgen Cannot configure device panic

[Philip Lee]

Hello all,

I had a "working" install of pktgen that would transfer data but not
provide statistics. The setup are two Netronome NICs connected
together. It was suggested there was a problem with the Netronome PMD,
so I reinstalled both the Netronome BSP and DPDK. Now I'm getting the
following error with trying to start up pktgen with: ./pktgen -c 0x1f
-n 1 -- -m [1:2].0

>>> Packet Burst 32, RX Desc 512, TX Desc 1024, mbufs/port 8192, mbuf cache 1024
=== port to lcore mapping table (# lcores 5) ===
   lcore:     0     1     2     3     4
port   0:  D: T  1: 0  0: 1  0: 0  0: 0 =  1: 1
Total   :  0: 0  1: 0  0: 1  0: 0  0: 0
    Display and Timer on lcore 0, rx:tx counts per port/lcore

Configuring 4 ports, MBUF Size 1920, MBUF Cache Size 1024
Lcore:
    1, RX-Only
                RX( 1): ( 0: 0)
    2, TX-Only
                TX( 1): ( 0: 0)
Port :
    0, nb_lcores  2, private 0x8cca90, lcores:  1  2

** Default Info (5:8.0, if_index:0) **
   max_vfs        :   0, min_rx_bufsize    :  68, max_rx_pktlen :     0
   max_rx_queues  :   0, max_tx_queues     :   0
   max_mac_addrs  :   1, max_hash_mac_addrs:   0, max_vmdq_pools:     0
   rx_offload_capa:   0, tx_offload_capa   :   0, reta_size     :
128, flow_type_rss_offloads:0000000000000000
   vmdq_queue_base:   0, vmdq_queue_num    :   0, vmdq_pool_base:     0
** RX Conf **
   pthresh        :   8, hthresh          :   8, wthresh        :     0
   Free Thresh    :  32, Drop Enable      :   0, Deferred Start :     0
** TX Conf **
   pthresh        :  32, hthresh          :   0, wthresh        :     0
   Free Thresh    :  32, RS Thresh        :  32, Deferred Start :
0, TXQ Flags:00000f01

!PANIC!: Cannot configure device: port=0, Num queues 1,1 (2)Invalid argument
PANIC in pktgen_config_ports():
Cannot configure device: port=0, Num queues 1,1 (2)Invalid argument6:
[./pktgen() [0x43394e]]
5: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f89dd0f7f45]]
4: [./pktgen(main+0x4d4) [0x432f54]]
3: [./pktgen(pktgen_config_ports+0x3108) [0x45f418]]
2: [./pktgen(__rte_panic+0xbe) [0x42f288]]
1: [./pktgen(rte_dump_stack+0x1a) [0x49af3a]]
Aborted

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I tried unbinding the nics and rebinding. I read in an older mailling
post that setup.sh needs to be run every reboot. I executed it, and it
looks like a list of things to install pktgen that I had done manually
again after the most recent reboot. The output of the status check
script is below:
./dpdk-devbind.py --status

Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
============================================
0000:05:08.0 'Device 6003' drv=igb_uio unused=
0000:05:08.1 'Device 6003' drv=igb_uio unused=
0000:05:08.2 'Device 6003' drv=igb_uio unused=
0000:05:08.3 'Device 6003' drv=igb_uio unused=

Network devices using kernel driver
===================================
0000:01:00.0 'NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe' if=eth0 drv=tg3
unused=igb_uio *Active*
0000:01:00.1 'NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe' if=eth1 drv=tg3
unused=igb_uio
0000:02:00.0 'NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe' if=eth2 drv=tg3
unused=igb_uio
0000:02:00.1 'NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe' if=eth3 drv=tg3
unused=igb_uio
0000:05:00.0 'Device 4000' if= drv=nfp unused=igb_uio
0000:43:00.0 'Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2' if=eth4
drv=ixgbe unused=igb_uio
0000:43:00.1 'Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2' if=eth7
drv=ixgbe unused=igb_uio
0000:44:00.0 'MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]' if=eth5,eth6 drv=mlx4_core
unused=igb_uio

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Philip Lee