[dpdk-dev] SR-IOV with vfio-pci

Deepak Gowda deepak.dt06 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 27 05:48:30 CEST 2019


Here it is.
OS : Debian 9.4

Card info:
driver: ixgbe
version: 4.4.0-k
firmware-version: 0x80000838
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:04:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no

-DG

On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 21:11, Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:57:04 +0530
> Deepak Gowda <deepak.dt06 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to run test-pmd application with virtual functions bound to
> > vfio-pci.
> > I'm able to bind and unbind the virtual functions from ixgbevf to
> vfio-pci
> > and vice-versa
> > And i'm seeing the below VF Initialization failure error, i can't seem to
> > figure out what's going wrong here,
> >
> > EAL:   using IOMMU type 1 (Type 1)
> > PMD: eth_ixgbevf_dev_init(): VF Initialization Failure: -15
> > EAL: Releasing pci mapped resource for 0000:04:10.0
> > EAL: Calling pci_unmap_resource for 0000:04:10.0 at 0x7f808ba00000
> > EAL: Calling pci_unmap_resource for 0000:04:10.0 at 0x7f808ba04000
> > EAL: Requested device 0000:04:10.0 cannot be used
> > EAL: PCI device 0000:04:10.2 on NUMA socket 0
> > EAL:   probe driver: 8086:10ed net_ixgbe_vf
> > EAL:   using IOMMU type 1 (Type 1)
> > PMD: eth_ixgbevf_dev_init(): VF Initialization Failure: -15
> > EAL: Releasing pci mapped resource for 0000:04:10.2
> > EAL: Calling pci_unmap_resource for 0000:04:10.2 at 0x7f808ba08000
> > EAL: Calling pci_unmap_resource for 0000:04:10.2 at 0x7f808ba0c000
> > EAL: Requested device 0000:04:10.2 cannot be used
> >
> > Here's some more information:
> > I'm using dpdk-17.11.
> > Created Virtual functions on Intel 82599ES 10G cards.
> > Bound these vfs to vfio-pci.
> > And tried to run the test-pmd.
>
> What is the host OS version that owns the PF driver?
>
> Also check the firmware version on the card.
>


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