[mlx5 driver] Usage of mlx5 with unpriviledged LXC container

[David Marchand]

On Wed, 3 Sept 2025 at 16:54, Julien <julien.marcin.tech at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thank you for the response.
> Yes, these capabilities are necessary in order to run dpdk-testpmd inside a container. However, they are not sufficient.
> I tried again with a 6.8 kernel and the Nvidia tools/libraries suite: "doca-host_3.1.0-091000-25.07-ubuntu2404_amd64.deb".
> The log is more informative this time: "mlx5_common: DevX create TIS failed errno=121 status=0x3 syndrome=0x6a6678".
> Do you have any idea how to investigate this issue, especially regarding "status" and "syndrome"?

Sorry, I can't help about such low level details for the mlx5 driver.
I copied the DPDK mlx5 maintainers, maybe they can help.

However, I am a bit concerned as you are mixing in some DOCA
proprietary libraries.
If you need DOCA, you should probably contact the NVIDIA DOCA support team.


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David Marchand