[ovs-discuss] Cannot add dpdkvhost user ports

[haris tanvir]

thanks
it solved the issue



> On 14-Oct-2015, at 10:20 pm, Puha, TimoX <timox.puha at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I think 2.4 still has also this problem (http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-September/060106.html) and your symptoms seem to match. So if you used a relative path to DPDK when running OVS configure, you should do configure and build again with an absolute path to DPDK.
>  
> -Timo
>  
> From: discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of haris tanvir
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:22 PM
> To: Loftus, Ciara
> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Cannot add dpdkvhost user ports
>  
> Hi Ciara,
> Yes i have made sure that 'CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_USER=y ' is also checked (It is checked by default)
> But the problem persists.
>  
> Regards
> Haris
>  
>  
> 
> > From: ciara.loftus at intel.com
> > To: haristanvir at hotmail.com
> > CC: discuss at openvswitch.org
> > Subject: RE: [ovs-discuss] Cannot add dpdkvhost user ports
> > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:23:38 +0000
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I am trying to add in dpdkvhostuser ports in openvswitch 2.4
> > > I have followed all the steps described in following documentation
> > > http://www.ran-lifshitz.com/2015/06/17/open-vswitch-netdev-dpdk-with-
> > > vhost-user-support/
> > > I have made sure that following checks are enabled when i build dpdk
> > > CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y
> > > CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST=y
> > > 
> > > After all the steps, i am able to add ports of type 'dpdk' but when i add port
> > > of type 'dpdkvhostuser', it throws out following error in the logs
> > > bridge|WARN|could not open network device dpdkvhost0 (Address family
> > > not supported by protocol)
> > > 
> > > And surprisingly, it adds ports of 'vhostcuse' just fine, even though i have
> > > made sure a thousand times that i have checked vhostuser flag rather than
> > > vhostcuse flag (CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST=y in
> > Make sure that CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_USER=y too.
> > 
> > > dpdk2.0.0/config/linux_common . Infact i have not even loaded 'cuse'
> > > module.
> > > 
> > > Can someone please point it some step im missing?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > Haris Tanvir
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >
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