[dpdk-dev] DPDK 1.6 and Cisco VIC-NIC pmd fails to initialize with VMWare ESX 5.5

2015-11-19 Thread Karmarkar Suyash
Of Karmarkar Suyash Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 8:34 PM To: dev at dpdk.org Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK 1.6 and Cisco VIC-NIC pmd fails to initialize with VMWare ESX 5.5 Hello All, I am trying some experiments with DPDK 1.6 and Cisco NIC - (:06:00.0 Network controller: Cisco Systems Inc

[dpdk-dev] DPDK 1.6 and Cisco VIC-NIC pmd fails to initialize with VMWare ESX 5.5

2015-11-19 Thread Patel, Rashmin N
dnesday, November 18, 2015 8:34 PM To: dev at dpdk.org Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK 1.6 and Cisco VIC-NIC pmd fails to initialize with VMWare ESX 5.5 Hello All, I am trying some experiments with DPDK 1.6 and Cisco NIC - (:06:00.0 Network controller: Cisco Systems Inc. Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC [vmnic

[dpdk-dev] DPDK 1.6 and Cisco VIC-NIC pmd fails to initialize with VMWare ESX 5.5

2015-11-19 Thread Karmarkar Suyash
I was looking at older thread here it mentions the kernel vmxnet3 pmd dependency with Vmware tsc map, Is this the reason why the CISCO NIC is coming up fine on ESX 6.0 which will have higher version/updated driver and ESX 5.5 has older version of the driver and because of incompatability the NIC

[dpdk-dev] DPDK 1.6 and Cisco VIC-NIC pmd fails to initialize with VMWare ESX 5.5

2015-11-19 Thread Karmarkar Suyash
Hello All, I am trying some experiments with DPDK 1.6 and Cisco NIC - (:06:00.0 Network controller: Cisco Systems Inc. Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC [vmnic0]), on the guest I am using VMXNET3 as interface/pmd and one weird behavior that is see is with VMWare ESX 5.5 DPDK is not able to initialize