06/06/2020 22:54, Vineeth Thapeta: > Hi Thomas, > > We want to use TAS which is built on top of DPDK,
Do you have a link to TAS? I don't know it. > I installed Mellanox OFED 5.0 and TAS and everything was good, > until we had to install Moogen. So your only issue is to install Moongen, given you already have DPDK working. > Please find my answer to your questions. > Thanks for the prompt reply. I appreciate it. > > We are using Ubuntu 18.04. I indeed had success in installing dpdk 19.11 > LTS with MLNX_OFED 5.0. To answer your questions about Moongen either > requires 1) Complete OFED drivers or 2) libibverbs, libmlx5, > mlnx-ofed-kernel packages, No, Moongen requires only DPDK. If I am wrong, please could you show where you found such info? > These packages are installed with MLNX_ofed > drivers if I am not mistaken. Installing the Ubuntu package rdma-core should be enough. > So I moved on to build Moongen, When building > moongen with OFED 5.0 I get the error fatal error: infiniband/mlx5_hw.h: No > such file or directory #include <infiniband/mlx5_hw.h>. I thought this > might be related to the libmlx5 and I installed libmlx5.deb from the > packages in the DEBS/ folder. testpmd stops working with this prompt > ./testpmd: /usr/lib/libmlx5.so.1: no version information available > (required by ./testpmd). So I tried rolling back the OFED version to 4.4, > which has caused problems with building dpdk with version 19.11 LTS,18.11 > LTS and 17.11 LTS as I shared in the previous mail. You are mixing different versions of drivers. Choose either rdma-core packaged in Ubuntu, or OFED from mellanox.com. > I hope this answers your questions. > > Vineeth > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 3:13 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > 06/06/2020 21:43, Vineeth Thapeta: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I had to roll back OFED version from 5.0 to 4.4 because another library > > > Moongen has trouble building with OFED 5.0. > > > > How Moongen is related to OFED? > > Why using OFED and not upstream packaging of rdma-core? > > Which distribution are you using? > > > > > I rolled back the version and > > > Moongen builds and when I try to build dpdk 18.11, 19.11,17.11. All the > > > three builds fail with the following error ( > > https://pastebin.com/fiw7iz1Z > > > Link of build error). Does anyone know why this happens. > > > > Any DPDK version should build with any version of OFED or rdma-core. > > Note: DPDK 17.11 is not supported anymore. > > > > > I am exhausted > > > with roll backs,if anyone can help me with this I would be grateful. , By > > > the looks of it, it might mean it had problems with the OFED driver? I > > > installed the MLNX ofed driver without any flags, i.e ./mlnxofedinstall. > > If > > > you want any further information,please let me know. Any suggestion would > > > be appreciated, even if you don't think it might work. I have been trying > > > to install these two for the past week, without much success. Are the > > above > > > mentioned DPDK version not compatible with said driver(4.4)? > > > > Let's focus on your goal and see what is the real issue you hit. > > Which version of DPDK do you need? > > Why not start with the latest LTS, which is 19.11?
