[dpdk-users] Compile DPDK 17.11 with Mellanox NIC support

[george.dit at gmail.com]

Great, this is the OFED version I just got.
Your help is much appreciated, thanks!

Best regards,
Georgios

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com
> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 09:02:54AM +0100, george.dit at gmail.com wrote:
> >    Hi Nelio,
> >    Thanks for the prompt reply and guidance!
> >    My OFED version was 4.1, that's why I was unable to build DPDK 17.11.
> >    With OFED 4.2 everything works on my kernel (v4.4)!
> >    I have one more question: What is the suggested OFED version in order
> to
> >    have a fully featured NIC with all the DPDK classification/offloading
> >    capabilities?
> >    My NICs are 100G ConnectX-4 (dual and single port).
> <snip/>
>
> The one referenced in the documentation, you can still download and
> install the latest GA from Mellanox website [1] (the link is also in the
> documentation).
> You can also take a look at features documentation page [2] on DPDK
> documentation, those set to 'Y' are supported by the MLNX_OFED version
> and (almost) by RDMA-Core.
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=
> 26&mtag=linux_sw_drivers&ssn=l6arvsaqjfc9t768ll2nqa9dh3
> [2] https://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/overview.html
>
> --
> Nélio Laranjeiro
> 6WIND
>



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