[dpdk-users] Enable MLX5 driver v20.11

[Gerry Wan]

I've found that linking with static libraries will fix this problem, but
using shared libraries continues to successfully build but at runtime will
not find any ports despite having devices bound to DPDK compatible drivers.
Perhaps I am linking against library executables from the old DPDK version?
If this is likely the case, how can I fix this to work with shared
libraries?

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 1:04 PM Gerry Wan <gerryw at stanford.edu> wrote:

> OK, I was able to build it this way.
> However, it seems that it still does not solve my problem where the
> application detects no ports available. I am building it outside the
> development kit using Make. It appears the same issue happens with the
> provided sample applications. If I compile the "skeleton" sample
> application with make, running it will error saying no ports available. If
> I compile it using meson (meson configure -Dexamples=skeleton) and then run
> it through ./<build_dir>/examples/dpdk-skeleton it works fine. How can I
> compile the applications outside of the development kit? The current
> documentation says this should still be possible using make as before.
>
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:31 AM Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Starting OFED 5.1 it stopped the support for MLX4 pmd
>>
>> And seems that you have some libmlx4 under your local lib dir,
>>
>> In the meanwhile what you can do when doing ninja is to disable mxl4
>> compilation:
>>
>>
>>
>> meson build -D disable_driver=net/mlx4; ninja -C build
>>
>>
>>
>> Kindest regards,
>>
>> Raslan Darawsheh
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Gerry Wan <gerryw at stanford.edu>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, December 13, 2020 1:25 PM
>> *To:* Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>
>> *Cc:* users at dpdk.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [dpdk-users] Enable MLX5 driver v20.11
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> I updated my MLNX_OFED to 5.1-2.5.8.0, which was tested against for this
>> DPDK release.
>>
>> To install, I ran ./mlnxofedinstall --dpdk --upstream-libs --with-mft
>> --with-kernel-mft
>>
>> then /etc/init.d/openibd restart
>> Now, ninja install gives me ../drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_glue.h:16:10: fatal
>> error: infiniband/mlx4dv.h: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>>
>> What other steps am I missing?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:35 AM Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gerry,
>>
>> Starting V20.11 the build system was switched to use meson only,
>> And if you have necessary packages for MLX5 (a.k. rdma-core) it will be
>> built automatically.
>>
>> As for your question if you still don't need to bind mlx5 driver that's
>> true, its still valid.
>>
>> Kindest regards,
>> Raslan Darawsheh
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: users <users-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Gerry Wan
>> > Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2020 1:22 AM
>> > To: users at dpdk.org
>> > Subject: [dpdk-users] Enable MLX5 driver v20.11
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> > I am trying to update my DPDK version from 20.08 to 20.11. I am using
>> the
>> > mlx5 driver, and previously to enable it I had to set
>> > CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_PMD=y in config/common_base. In 20.11, I see
>> > no
>> > option to do so. I was able to build my application (and the sample
>> > applications), but running rte_eth_dev_count_avail() returns 0 and
>> cannot
>> > find any ports.
>> >
>> > The steps I did to build DPDK from source were:
>> >
>> > $ meson build
>> >
>> > $ cd build
>> >
>> > $ sudo ninja install
>> >
>> > $ sudo ldconfig
>> >
>> >
>> > Normally I would edit dpdk-20.xx/config/common_base before meson build,
>> > but
>> > that file is gone.
>> >
>> > What are the steps I need to take to enable mlx5 driver? I also recall
>> that
>> > I don't need to bind the mlx5 driver, is that still the case?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>
>>