Re: [vpp-dev] vpp crashing on latest master branch with mlx5 enabled

Hi Ashish, Building DPDK with mlx support in the VPP build system is experimental and not well tested (especially with CentOS), as I explained in my previous email. Don’t hesitate to contribute patches if you want to improve that support, I’ll happily take a look and help. About your issue,

Re: [vpp-dev] vpp crashing on latest master branch with mlx5 enabled

Hi Mohammed, I am still not able to compile latest master with mlx5 support. Can you please give me some pointers on the compilation ? I have send the compilation error logs in the earlier mail. Thanks and Regards, Ashish -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this

Re: [vpp-dev] vpp crashing on latest master branch with mlx5 enabled

Hi Mohammed, I tried to compile vpp from the latest master branch on Cento8.2 machine , but the compilation is failing now when I am trying to build the external dependencies using the following command: make install-ext-deps Following are the error logs: [1056/1917] Linking target

Re: [vpp-dev] vpp crashing on latest master branch with mlx5 enabled

Hi Ashish, Support for the DPDK plugin with Mellanox cards has been restored on master since https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/30051 . However, I can’t stress enough that you should get better performance (and more stability) with the rdma plugin. Due to the

Re: [vpp-dev] vpp crashing on latest master branch with mlx5 enabled

Hi Mohammed, Thanks for the reply. I will try with rdma plugin, But I wants to know why support for DPDK plugin with Mellanox cards has been discontinued ? It was working perfectly till release 20.05 . Thanks and Regards, Ashish -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to

Re: [vpp-dev] vpp crashing on latest master branch with mlx5 enabled

We actually had to revert the DPDK 20.08 use to continue to have this work in 20.09. Isn't it a bit unexpected to have a DPDK supported NIC not work though? I'd think we'd want this fixed, is there any idea why it's broken? Thanks, Chris. > On Nov 20, 2020, at 2:47 PM, Mohammed Hawari wrote:

Re: [vpp-dev] vpp crashing on latest master branch with mlx5 enabled

Hi Ashish, The DPDK plugin for mlx5 NICs is not supported by the current code on master. We strongly encourage you to try the rdma plugin, which offers a native VPP driver for mlx5 NICs without relying on DPDK. The use of this driver is documented in src/plugins/rdma/rdma_doc.md. Best

[vpp-dev] vpp crashing on latest master branch with mlx5 enabled

Hi vpp devs, I have been trying to run vpp on latest master branch with mlx 5 enables on centos 8.2 machine . I have downloaded and installed the mellanox driver from url:https://www.mellanox.com/products/infiniband-drivers/linux/mlnx_ofed and installed the following dependencies: #yum install