[dpdk-users] Do dpdk support infiniband ConnectX-3 Pro cards?

[Cheng Li]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks a lot for your instant answer. We will check this by following your advice.

Regards,
     Cheng

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen at networkplumber.org] 
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2018 3:19 AM
To: Quan Zhou <zzqq2199 at mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: users at dpdk.org; chengli7 at ustc.edu.cn; byh0912 at mail.ustc.edu.cn; xugb at mail.ustc.edu.cn; rcy at mail.ustc.edu.cn; junyi at nevada.unr.edu
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Do dpdk support infiniband ConnectX-3 Pro cards?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:27:46 +0800
Quan Zhou <zzqq2199 at mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:

> Hello，
> 	I’ve worked on making dpdk running on our infiniband card Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro MT27520 but encountered some problems. I find in dpdk official hardware support list, it only list one ConnectX-3 Pro card which is an Ethernet card. Here is the hardware support list link: http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/mlx4.html#supported-nics
> 　　Now I want to ask you whether dpdk supports our card ConnectX-3 Pro MT27520, or whether dpdk supports infiniband ConnectX-3 Pro cards. 
> 　　Thanks in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> Quan

The simplest way to answer that question on your own is to find the pci information with lspci.
Then lookup card in the tables in the source code.  That gives you the definitive answer.

Since Mellanox uses bifurcated mode you also have to have the matching Linux kernel driver.