[dpdk-users] testpmd + EAL: No probed ethernet devices + dpdk-17.11.1

[Rosen, Rami]

Hi,
You need to bind a device to DPDK before launching testpmd, with the 
usertools/dpdk-devbind.py script. Did you do it? What is the output 
of 
./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -s
on your host ? do you see any entries under "Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver" when running ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -s?

Please take a look in the "Linux Getting Started Guide", section 
4.4: "Binding and Unbinding Network Ports to/from the Kernel Modules"

http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.html#binding-and-unbinding-network-ports-to-from-the-kernel-modules

Regards,
Rami Rosen



-----Original Message-----
From: users [mailto:users-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of venkataprasad k
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 15:35
To: users at dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-users] testpmd + EAL: No probed ethernet devices + dpdk-17.11.1

Hello,

I am trying to run testpmd application and getting the following error
"EAL: No probed ethernet devices"

version: dpdk-stable-17.11.1
Log:
[root at localhost dpdk-stable-17.11.1]#  ./build/app/testpmd –l 12,13,14 –n 4
-- -i
EAL: Detected 80 lcore(s)
EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
EAL: VFIO support initialized
EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.2 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.3 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
*EAL: No probed ethernet devices*
Interactive-mode selected
USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=779456, size=2176,
socket=0
USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_1>: n=779456, size=2176,
socket=1
USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_2>: n=779456, size=2176,
socket=2
USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_3>: n=779456, size=2176,
socket=3
Done
testpmd> show config fwd
io packet forwarding - ports=0 - cores=0 - streams=0 - NUMA support enabled, MP over anonymous pages disabled

testpmd>


from the dpdk-setup script, i see there are devices supported by dpdk

Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver ============================================
0000:03:00.0 'Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter 155d' drv=vfio-pci unused=
0000:03:00.1 'Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter 155d' drv=vfio-pci unused=
0000:05:00.0 'Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter 155d' drv=vfio-pci unused=
0000:05:00.1 'Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter 155d' drv=vfio-pci unused=
0000:41:00.0 'Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter 155d' drv=vfio-pci unused=
0000:41:00.1 'Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter 155d' drv=vfio-pci unused=
0000:45:00.0 'Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter 155d' drv=vfio-pci unused=
0000:45:00.1 'Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter 155d' drv=vfio-pci unused=

Network devices using kernel driver
===================================
0000:01:00.0 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection 1521' if=enp1s0f0 drv=igb unused=vfio-pci *Active*
0000:01:00.1 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection 1521' if=enp1s0f1 drv=igb unused=vfio-pci
0000:01:00.2 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection 1521' if=enp1s0f2 drv=igb unused=vfio-pci
0000:01:00.3 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection 1521' if=enp1s0f3 drv=igb unused=vfio-pci

Other Network devices
=====================
<none>

My understanding is, it should consider the devices under "Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver", but it is not.
The nic that i am using Intel 82599, which is supported by dpdk.

can someone help me to understand what is wrong here?

Thanks,
Venkat