[dpdk-dev] [PATCH dpdk 0/5] ppc64/spapr: Attempt to use on POWER8

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Sun Apr 23 15:35:17 CEST 2017


On 23/04/17 07:11, Olga Shern wrote:
> Alexey, 
> 
> Mellanox support DPDK only on Ethernet, no IB.
> And yes, you need to install Mellanox drivers , OFED, to support it.


ibv_get_device_list(&i) returns no devices, the name suggests "ib" ==
infiniband but it may be just naming issue :)


> What NIC do you have? 

Mellanox Technologies MT27520 Family [ConnectX-3 Pro]
Mellanox Technologies MT27700 Family [ConnectX-4]



> 
> Best Regards,
> Olga
> 
> ________________________________________________________________
> Olga Shern 
> SW Director DPDK 
> Mellanox Technologies, Raanana Israel
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Alexey
>> Kardashevskiy
>> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 10:24 AM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>; JPF at zurich.ibm.com;
>> Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m at in.ibm.com>
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH dpdk 0/5] ppc64/spapr: Attempt to use on
>> POWER8
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> This is my first attempt to use DPDK on POWER8 machine and yet
>> unsuccessful as it turned out DPDK only supports IB-Mellanox (I only got
>> ethernet-Mellanox, and requires OFED), rmmod on Intel 40Gb module
>> produces PCI errors (unrelated to DPDK) and Broadcom bnx2x has few issues
>> (below) and still crashes as I suspect I got DMA mapping wrong, here is a
>> backtrace:
>>
>> Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
>> PMD: bnx2x_issue_dmae_with_comp(): DMAE timeout!
>> PANIC in bnx2x_write_dmae():
>> DMAE failed (-1)22: [/lib/powerpc64le-linux-
>> gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xb8) [0x3fffb7c23298]]
>> 21: [/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x2309c) [0x3fffb7c2309c]]
>> 20: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(main+0x228) [0x100255d0]]
>> 19: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(start_port+0x5dc)
>> [0x1002341c]]
>> 18: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(rte_eth_dev_start+0xc4)
>> [0x1008b3c0]]
>> 17: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10117550]]
>> 16: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(bnx2x_init+0x204)
>> [0x100f7210]]
>> 15: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100f6888]]
>> 14: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100ee7f4]]
>> 13:
>> [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(ecore_func_state_change+0x
>> 250) [0x10127794]]
>> 12: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x1012734c]]
>> 11: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10126830]]
>> 10: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10126618]]
>> 9: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x10100a98]]
>> 8: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100ffe00]]
>> 7: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100de614]]
>> 6: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100de4cc]]
>> 5: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x101063c0]]
>> 4: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd() [0x100e1f6c]]
>> 3: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(bnx2x_write_dmae+0x11c)
>> [0x100e1e40]]
>> 2: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(__rte_panic+0x8c)
>> [0x100b3e58]]
>> 1: [/home/aik/pbuild/dpdk_build/app/testpmd(rte_dump_stack+0x40)
>> [0x100b3cc4]]
>>
>> Thread 1 "testpmd" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
>> 0x00003fffb7c3edb0 in __GI_raise (sig=<optimised out>) at
>> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:54
>> 54      ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory.
>>
>> Still, some fixes are quite obvious and straigtforward.
>>
>> This is based on sha1
>> 2fc8e0bf0 Olivier Matz "log: fix dump of registered logs when disabled".
>>
>> Please comment. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alexey Kardashevskiy (5):
>>   vfio/ppc64/spapr: Use correct structures for add/remove windows
>>   pci: Initialize common rte driver pointer
>>   RFC: bnx2x: Update firmware versions
>>   vfio: Do try setting IOMMU type if already set
>>   RFC: vfio/ppc64/spapr: Use correct bus addresses for DMA map
>>
>>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.h |  8 +++++
>>  drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.c              |  4 +--
>>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_pci.c |  1 +
>> lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_vfio.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++------------
>> ---
>>  4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.11.0
> 


-- 
Alexey


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