[dpdk-users] [dpdk-dev] Ask help for mlx5 pmd driver

[benli ye]

Hi Rami,

Thanks for your reply.

Bests,
Daniel

> On Mar 20, 2019, at 12:33 AM, Rami Rosen <ramirose at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Benli,
> 
> Next time please send questions like this to dpdk-users mailing list, which suits more these type of question. 
Daniel: Sure and thanks.
> Can you please share more info: 
> which dpdk app do you run ? Is it something you developed by yourself ?;
Daniel: It’s an app called dpvs. https://github.com/iqiyi/dpvs
> With Mellanox PMDs, you do not need to bind them to DPDK, as opposed to other PMDs, because of the bifurcated model. 
> 
> When you launch the application, do you pass two pci ids (with 2 "-w" EAL argument), or only one , or none ?
Daniel: I will try these two arguments.

> See:
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-19.02/nics/mlx5.html <https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-19.02/nics/mlx5.html>
> 
> Regards,
> Rami Rosen
> 
> 
> בתאריך יום ג׳, 19 במרץ 2019, 15:07, מאת benli ye ‏<danielbenliye at gmail.com <mailto:danielbenliye at gmail.com>>:
> Hi,
> 
> Could you please help me on mlx5 pmd driver? I have two mlx5 driver powered NICs (eth0 and eth1) and one is conneted to internet and the other is connected to intranet.
> I want to use linux kernel net stack tool like bird app to send ospf packets and use ssh to login. But when I run the dpdk app and mlx5 pdm driver is working, the host is unreachable.
> Do I need to use rte_kni to create another two interface maybe called eth2 and eth3 to connect kernel stack? Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks very much!
> 
> Bests,
> Daniel Benli Ye