[ovs-discuss] adding dpdk ports sharing same pci address to ovs-dpdk bridge

[devendra rawat]

Hi,

I have compiled and built ovs-dpdk using DPDK v17.08 and OVS v2.8.0. The
NIC that I am using is Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro, which is a dual port 10G
NIC. The problem with this NIC is that it provides only one PCI address for
both the 10G ports.

So when I am trying to add the two DPDK ports to my br0 bridge

# ovs-vsctl --no-wait add-port br0 dpdk0 -- set Interface dpdk0 type=dpdk
options:dpdk-devargs=0002:01:00.0

# ovs-vsctl --no-wait add-port br0 dpdk1 -- set Interface dpdk1 type=dpdk
options:dpdk-devargs=0002:01:00.0

The port dpdk1 is added successfully and able to transfer data, but adding
dpdk0 to br0 fails:

2017-09-06T14:19:20Z|00045|netdev_dpdk|INFO|Port 0: e4:1d:2d:4f:78:60
2017-09-06T14:19:20Z|00046|bridge|INFO|bridge br0: added interface dpdk1 on
port 1
2017-09-06T14:19:20Z|00047|bridge|INFO|bridge br0: added interface br0 on
port 65534
2017-09-06T14:19:20Z|00048|dpif_netlink|WARN|Generic Netlink family
'ovs_datapath' does not exist. The Open vSwitch kernel module is probably
not loaded.
2017-09-06T14:19:20Z|00049|netdev_dpdk|WARN|'dpdk0' is trying to use device
'0002:01:00.0' which is already in use by 'dpdk1'
2017-09-06T14:19:20Z|00050|netdev|WARN|dpdk0: could not set configuration
(Address already in use)
2017-09-06T14:19:20Z|00051|bridge|INFO|bridge br0: using datapath ID
0000e41d2d4f7860


With OVS v2.6.1 I never had this problem as dpdk-devargs was not mandatory
and just specifying port name was enough to add that port to bridge.

Is there a way to add port both ports to bridge ?

Thanks,
Devendra
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