[ovs-discuss] dpdk installation failed with OVS

[Ian Stokes]

On 7/12/2018 8:28 PM, Sandeep Adapala wrote:
> Yes that would be great help. Ben.
> 

I've posted a patch to address this, comments are welcome.

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2018-July/349611.html

> Ian, Flavio- Now I have moved little bit further. now I am in start 
> switched step. I got this error when I do ovs-vswitchd unix:$DB_SOCK 
> --pidfile --detach
> 
> Device is ineligible for IOMMU domain attach due to platform RMRR requirement
> 

I haven't come across this error before myself, what type of platform 
are you using?

Ian
> 
> but my NIC is Intel05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit 
> SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)
> 
> 
> So am I missing anything here?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sandeep
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:55 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org 
> <mailto:blp at ovn.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 03:42:08PM +0100, Ian Stokes wrote:
>     > On 7/12/2018 3:26 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote:
>     > >On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 09:41:24AM -0400, Sandeep Adapala wrote:
>     > >>Hello Ian,
>     > >>
>     > >>Currently I am using Ubuntu 16.04 OS
>     > >>OVS version is v2.6.1 and DPDK is v16.11.1
>     > 
>     > I'd echo what Flavio has said below, also OVS 2.6.1 uses DPDK 16.07.1, I'm
>     > not sure if it will work as is with DPDK 16.11. The OVS to DPDK version
>     > mappings are available in the OVS release FAQ.
>     > 
>     > http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/faq/releases/
>     <http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/faq/releases/>
> 
>     Should we move that mapping in the DPDK installation instructions?  Then
>     we'd get fewer questions because users would have the right answer to
>     that particular question whenever they read the instructions, even if
>     they happened to read the instructions for the wrong version.
> 
>