[dpdk-users] pktgen - !PANIC!: *** Did not find any ports to use ***

[Sara Gittlin]

Hello
According the dpdk release notes - my NIC   - Onboard NIC: *Intel(R)
X552*/X557-AT
(2x10G) was tested

Tested Platforms

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#. SuperMicro 1U


   - BIOS: 1.0c

   - Processor: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz


#. SuperMicro 1U


   - BIOS: 1.0a

   - Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1540 @ 2.00GHz

   *- Onboard NIC: Intel(R) X552/X557-AT (2x10G)*

Thank you

-Sara

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 5:56 PM Sara Gittlin <sara.gittlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Stephen
> i can run pktgen on the host  with same 2 VF's
> Regards
> -Sara
>
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 5:52 PM Stephen Hemminger <
> stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 May 2019 17:44:17 +0300
>> Sara Gittlin <sara.gittlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello ,
>> > I'm running pktgen on a ubuntu-16.0p4 VM w 3 CPU's,
>> > I added  2 SRIOV VFs  devices to the VM - and i can see them w lspci or
>> > dpdk-devbind --status
>> > 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X552
>> > Virtual Function
>> > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X552
>> > Virtual Function
>>
>> Most likely these devices are missing/not supported by DPDK driver.
>> Look at the numeric id's (lspci -n) and compare them with the list
>> of pci ids in the driver source.
>>
>> In the past with Intel devices it also helped to look at the Linux
>> kernel driver. Sometimes the missing id's were there and some small
>> changes to the MAC code was necessary to get them to work.
>>
>