Hi Andrew,
> PCI devices of Solarflare NIC should be bound to vfio, uio-pci-generic or > igb_uio (part of DPDK) module. In the case of Solarflare NICs, Linux > driver is > not required and not used in DPDK. > > So, you should load one of above modules (depending on your server > IOMMU configuration), push already created interfaces down and rebind > Solarflare PCI functions to the driver, something like: > > modprobe vfio-pci > ip link set enp101s0f0 down > ip link set enp101s0f1 down > dpdk-devbind.py --bind=vfio-pci 0000:65:00.0 0000:65:00.1 > > The above assumes that dpdk-devbind.py script is in PATH. > And start DPDK as you do before. > For some reason vfio-pci is refusing to bind the device: . root usertools : ./dpdk-devbind.py --bind=vfio_pci 0000:65:00.0 0000:65:00.1 Error: bind failed for 0000:65:00.0 - Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio_pci/bind Error: bind failed for 0000:65:00.1 - Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio_pci/bind . also: . root usertools : echo 0000:65:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/bind bash: echo: write error: No such device . In the kernel command line I've included 'iommu=pt intel_iommu=on', but still not working. Well I guess this is not a DPDK issue anymore. Thanks! > Regards, > Andrew. -- BR, Filip +48 666 369 823
