DPDK Window 10: Hello World example Error: Failed to initialize DDP parser

[Dmitry Kozlyuk]

+ net/ice and Windows maintainers from Intel.

2023-11-15 17:16 (UTC+0500), Im Groot:
> Hi
> 
> I recently started building a DPDK for window 10 22H2. I was able to build
> the virt2phy and netuio driver successfully. I am using DPDK  DPDK 22.11.3
> (LTS).
> 
>    - I used visual studio 2019 community edition with WDK and SDK
>    10.0.22000 as recommended by you. And both drivers were built and
>    installed successfully. Device manager looks like this:
>    [image: image.png]
> 
> 
> 
>    - I have granted lock pages in memory on window 10. I guess this is
>    supported.
>     [image: image.png]
> 
> 
> 
>    - Now I am running the hello world example and I am getting the
>    following message on cmd. I want to know how I can debug this issue:
>    [image: image.png]
> 
> 
> C:\dpdk\build\examples>dpdk-helloworld.exe -l 0-3  
> EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 4
> EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1
> EAL: Multi-process support is requested, but not available.
> EAL: Requested device 0000:00:1f.6 cannot be used
> EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_ice (8086:159b) device: 0000:01:00.0 (socket -1)
> ice_flow_init(): Failed to initialize DDP parser, raw packet filter will
> not be supported
> EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_ice (8086:159b) device: 0000:01:00.1 (socket -1)
> ice_flow_init(): Failed to initialize DDP parser, raw packet filter will
> not be supported
> hello from core 1
> hello from core 2
> hello from core 3
> hello from core 0
> 
> 
> 
> *Questions:*
> I have the following queries:
> 
>    1. What does this error say (hello world example). Is there some issue
>    with the installation? How can I resolve this issue?
>       - *EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_ice (8086:159b) device: 0000:01:00.0
>       (socket -1)*
>       *ice_flow_init(): Failed to initialize DDP parser, raw packet filter
>       will not be supported*
>       2. Does the driver in the device manager look alright?
>    3. I am using DPDK  DPDK 22.11.3 (LTS). Is this the correct version to
>    use?
> 
> 
> Thanks