[dpdk-dev] SR-IOV: dpdk16.07 on guest and ixgbe 3.19.1 on host - will that be a problem ? (requested invalid api version)

2016-08-21 Thread Lu, Wenzhuo 
HI Gopakumar,


> -Original Message-
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Gopakumar
> Choorakkot Edakkunni
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 10:57 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] SR-IOV: dpdk16.07 on guest and ixgbe 3.19.1 on host - will
> that be a problem ? (requested invalid api version)
> 
> I see the below message "requested invalid api version" on host ? Will that 
> be an
> issue or is it benign ? Should I upgrade the host ixgbe to a later version ?
> 
> On the host:
> 
> *[69576.199458] ixgbe :88:00.1 p4p2: VF 2 requested invalid api version
> 3*
It means ixgbe doesn't support ixgbe_mbox_api_12. I suggest using something 
newer.

[dpdk-dev] SR-IOV: dpdk16.07 on guest and ixgbe 3.19.1 on host - will that be a problem ? (requested invalid api version)

2016-08-20 Thread Gopakumar Choorakkot Edakkunni 
I see the below message "requested invalid api version" on host ? Will that
be an issue or is it benign ? Should I upgrade the host ixgbe to a later
version ?

On the host:

*[69576.199458] ixgbe :88:00.1 p4p2: VF 2 requested invalid api version
3*

root# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release:14.04
Codename:trusty
root at mtpnjrsv113:~#


root# ethtool -i p4p2
driver: ixgbe
version: 3.19.1
firmware-version: 0x8811, 1.1067.0
bus-info: :88:00.1
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no

On the guest:

root# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release:14.04
Codename:trusty

root# find / -name rte_kni.ko
/var/lib/dkms/dpdk/16.07/3.16.0-30-generic/x86_64/module/rte_kni.ko
/lib/modules/3.16.0-30-generic/updates/dkms/rte_kni.ko