[dpdk-users] Facing an issue in running DPDK in a container along with SR-IOV.

[Prashanth Fernando]

Hi,

I am trying to run DPDK in a container and listen on a VF, I am unable to run DPDK. It fails with the following error.
Not sure what I am missing.

EAL: Detected 72 lcore(s)
EAL: Detected 2 NUMA nodes
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'VA'
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
EAL: VFIO support initialized
EAL: PCI device 0000:19:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:19:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:19:00.2 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:19:00.3 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:5e:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1572 net_i40e
EAL: PCI device 0000:5e:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1572 net_i40e
EAL: PCI device 0000:5e:00.2 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1572 net_i40e
EAL: PCI device 0000:5e:00.3 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1572 net_i40e
EAL: PCI device 0000:5e:02.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:154c net_i40e_vf
EAL:  0000:5e:02.0 not managed by VFIO driver, skipping
EAL: PCI device 0000:5e:02.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:154c net_i40e_vf
EAL: PCI device 0000:5e:02.2 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:154c net_i40e_vf
EAL: PCI device 0000:5e:02.3 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:154c net_i40e_vf
EAL: PCI device 0000:5e:02.4 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:154c net_i40e_vf
EAL: PCI device 0000:5e:02.5 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:154c net_i40e_vf
EAL: PCI device 0000:60:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
EAL: PCI device 0000:60:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
EAL: PCI device 0000:86:00.0 on NUMA socket 1
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
EAL: PCI device 0000:86:00.1 on NUMA socket 1
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
  Cause: No physical ports!


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Before Binding Interface:
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/usr/src/dpdk/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -s

Network devices using kernel driver
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0000:5e:02.0 'Ethernet Virtual Function 700 Series 154c' if=veth0 drv=iavf unused=vfio-pci *Active*

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Binding an interface:
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#/usr/src/dpdk/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --bind=vfio-pci 0000:5e:02.0

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After Binding Interface:
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# /usr/src/dpdk/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -s

Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
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0000:5e:02.0 'Ethernet Virtual Function 700 Series 154c' drv=vfio-pci unused=iavf