Hi, 19/12/2017 08:14, Hui Ling: > I installed DPDK 17.11 on Ubuntu 16.04. And I downloaded MLNX OFED > 4.2-1.2.0.0 and installed up-stream libs with > ./mlnxofedinstall --guest --dpdk --upstream-libs > > MLX4 PMD in DPDK doesn't seem to work with lib from ubuntu repository > and install OFED allows me to compile DPDK mlx4 PMD without any > compilation problem.
The recommended setup is using Linux 4.14 with rdma-core v15, not OFED. Please check this doc: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.html#current-rdma-core-package-and-linux-kernel-recommended