[dpdk-dev] Intel X710 and DPDK...

Iremonger, Bernard bernard.iremonger at intel.com
Wed Sep 11 18:30:38 CEST 2019


Hi Jeff,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Weeks
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 8:49 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Intel X710 and DPDK...
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I have some questions regarding the i40e driver in reference to Intel X710
> NICs.
> 
> 
> I have several 10G X710 cards on a host, mapped into a kvm-based guest via
> PCI-passthrough.
> 
> 
> DPDK sees these cards (the 6 in "Other Network Devices"):
> 
> # dpdk-devbind --status
> 
> Network devices using kernel driver
> ===================================
> 0000:00:03.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller 100e' if=eth0 drv=e1000
> unused=uio_pci_generic
> 0000:00:04.0 'Virtio network device 1000' if=eth1 drv=virtio-pci
> unused=uio_pci_generic
> 
> Other Network devices
> =====================
> 0000:00:09.0 'Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ 1572'
> unused=uio_pci_generic
> 0000:00:0a.0 'Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ 1572'
> unused=uio_pci_generic
> 0000:00:0b.0 'Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ 1572'
> unused=uio_pci_generic
> 0000:00:0c.0 'Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ 1572'
> unused=uio_pci_generic
> 0000:00:0d.0 'Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ 1572'
> unused=uio_pci_generic
> 0000:00:0e.0 'Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ 1572'
> unused=uio_pci_generic
> 
> No 'Crypto' devices detected
> ============================
> 
> No 'Eventdev' devices detected
> ==============================
> 
> No 'Mempool' devices detected
> =============================
> 
> No 'Compress' devices detected
> ==============================
> 
> But it wont bind them to the i40e driver:
> 
> root at 10.129.182.229:~# dpdk-devbind -b i40e "0000:00:09.0"
> Error: bind failed for 0000:00:09.0 - Cannot bind to driver i40e
> 
> I'm wondering what I can do to debug this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
<snip>

You cannot bind DPDK to the i40e kernel driver.
Try the following:
./dpdk/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b igb_uio 0000:00:09.0
or
./dpdk/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b uio_pci_generic 0000:00:09.0

Regards,




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