DPDK on Mellanox Bluefield-2 SmartNIC

Hi cs.lev,

You’ve mentioned that you compiled your own DPDK and there is NVIDIA included DPDK at the same time.

Here are my 2 cents:

  • I would replace your own DPDK installation with NVIDIA’s primary installation and try again.
  • When I compile DPDK from scratch it happens that MLX5 drivers are missing so I need to install those as well. However, that seems to not be the case here because otherwise, testpmd wouldn’t even find the devices. But possibly it might not contain the correct drivers?
  • Your DPDK version also seems a little odd, I would move to LTS version, at least 20.11 but rather to 22.11 or even 23.11. I always go with the .11 versions.

If this doesn’t solve your issue then I would contact NVIDIA support or reach out to DPDK users mailing list: mails.dpdk.org Mailing Lists