[ovs-discuss] Intel DPDK testpmd application issues

[Traynor, Kevin]

The core mask is set for 1 core with -c 0x1, but --nb-cores=2 means that the app is to use 2 fwding cores. Try changing to -c 0xf

Thanks,
Kevin.

From: discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Hiteshi Kalra
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 11:38 AM
To: discuss at openvswitch.org
Subject: [ovs-discuss] Intel DPDK testpmd application issues

Hi Team,

We are running OVS with Intel DPDK Sample applications.
We have successfully run helloworld application as specified in Intel getting started guide.pdf

But We are getting some issues in running testpmd application as speified in (http://www.intel.in/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/guides/intel-dpdk-testpmd-application-user-guide.pdf).

We have used following command for it :

sudo ./testpmd -c 0x1 -n 4 -- -i --portmask=0x1 --nb-cores=2

EAL: Requesting 1238 pages of size 2MB from socket 0
EAL: TSC frequency is ~3178599 KHz
EAL: WARNING: cpu flags constant_tsc=yes nonstop_tsc=no -> using unreliable clock cycles !
EAL: Master core 0 is ready (tid=888ca800)
EAL: PCI device 0000:00:03.0 on NUMA socket -1
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:100e rte_em_pmd
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fde88874000
PANIC in main():
Empty set of forwarding logical cores - check the core mask supplied in the command parameters
5: [./testpmd() [0x4240a5]]
4: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7fde879fb76d]]
3: [./testpmd(main+0x4f2) [0x423df2]]
2: [./testpmd(__rte_panic+0xc1) [0x42379a]]
1: [./testpmd(rte_dump_stack+0x23) [0x486393]]


Can anyone please help me in resloving error?

Thanks
Hiteshi

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