[ovs-discuss] Regarding adding dpdk port on ovs

[Daniele Di Proietto]

Hi,

On 10/8/14, 4:50 PM, "Shivapriya Hiremath" <shivpri.b at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi ,
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>I am not able to add the dpdk port to a bridge. I get the following error.
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>./utilities/ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk0 -- set Interface dpdk0 type=dpdk
>ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up 'dpdk0'.  See ovs-vswitchd log
>for details.
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>​Could anyone please tell me where to find the ovs-switchd log ? I have a
>fedora set up. Am I missing something ? I followed the
>https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/INSTALL.DPDK
><https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=https://github.com/openvswitch
>/ovs/blob/master/INSTALL.DPDK&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=MV9BdL
>jtFIdhBDBaw5z%2BU6SSA2gAfY4L%2F1HCy3VjlKU%3D%0A&m=A7JzvVOZpspFzfMB7WeddcL1
>VbQ2bnRrxwTUKq2IUZM%3D%0A&s=6b39897ee3c1a44e44db7e5889ad1e4010570ab4e18bb4
>6d1c105f9d8822236e>
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You can ask ovs-vswitchd to write to a specific log file with the
—log-file option. Please, take a look at man ovs-vswitchd(8).

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>Please let me know if you need any more information from me.
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About the error: is your system using 1GB hugepages? Otherwise there might
not be enough memory to create the DPDK memory pools.

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>Thank you.​
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