I would upgrade the NIC firmware and i40e driver. I use HP X710 so am not sure what verion of driver/firmware to recommend but get the latest for your card. Also, make sure that SRIOV is on in the BIOS.
Best Regards, Don On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Raju-dev grishma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi I have a host and XL710 nic cards and created few VFs on these NIC. I > created two VMs on that host and assign one VF to each VM. > > VM#1: It has RHEL 7.2 installed and I use DPDK version 2.2.0 > > SRIOV ports on this VM works OK. testmpd works. > > The SRIOV interfaces comes up with below logs when I invoke testpmd. > > EAL: PCI device 0000:0b:00.0 on NUMA socket -1 > EAL: probe driver: 8086:154c rte_i40evf_pmd > EAL: PCI memory mapped at 0x7fefdce00000 > EAL: PCI memory mapped at 0x7fefdce10000 > > > VM#2: It has Ubuntu 16.04.2 and I use DPDK 17.05 > SRIOV ports don't show up when I invoke testpmd. > > EAL: PCI device 0000:03:00.0 on NUMA socket -1 > EAL: probe driver: 8086:154c net_i40e_vf > i40evf_init_vf(): init_adminq failed > i40evf_dev_init(): Init vf failed > EAL: Requested device 0000:03:00.0 cannot be used > > I see one difference here. For the same NIC beneath, the DPDK picks > different driver on this VM. (net_i40e_vf as compared to rte_i40evf_pmd). > As I understand the dpdk.h file has this switching based on RTE version. > > Question is why it fails on this VM that has different (later version) of > dpdk ? > Is there any settings I need to do on the guest OS (Ubuntu ) on VM#2? > could it be the NIC firmware that might be incompatible with driver used by > dpdk on VM#2? > > Any pointers to move on ? > > Thanks >
