[dpdk-users] Problems compiling DPDK for MLX4

[Anthony Hart]

Having problems compiling DPDK for the Mellanox PMD.

For dpdk-18-08 I get...

  CC efx_phy.o
In file included from /root/th/dpdk-18.08/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_txq.c:35:0:
/root/th/dpdk-18.08/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_glue.h:16:31: fatal error: infiniband/mlx4dv.h: No such file or directory
 #include <infiniband/mlx4dv.h>
                               ^
compilation terminated.
In file included from /root/th/dpdk-18.08/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_intr.c:32:0:
/root/th/dpdk-18.08/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_glue.h:16:31: fatal error: infiniband/mlx4dv.h: No such file or directory
 #include <infiniband/mlx4dv.h>


For dpdk-1711.3

  CC mlx5.o
/root/th/dpdk-stable-17.11.3/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c: In function ‘mlx5_pci_probe’:
/root/th/dpdk-stable-17.11.3/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c:921:21: error: ‘struct ibv_device_attr_ex’ has no member named ‘device_cap_flags_ex’
    !!(device_attr_ex.device_cap_flags_ex &
                     ^
/root/th/dpdk-stable-17.11.3/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c:922:7: error: ‘IBV_DEVICE_RAW_IP_CSUM’ undeclared (first use in this function)
       IBV_DEVICE_RAW_IP_CSUM);
       ^
/root/th/dpdk-stable-17.11.3/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c:922:7: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/root/th/dpdk-stable-17.11.3/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c:942:18: error: ‘struct ibv_device_attr_ex’ has no member named ‘rss_caps’
    device_attr_ex.rss_caps.max_rwq_indirection_table_size;
                  ^


This is on Lentos 7.5 (3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64)

With mlnx-en-4.4-1.0.1.0-rhel7.5-x86_64.iso installed


Any thoughts?

thanks
—
tony