Hello, When I run testpmd on a system with 2 two-port Chelsio T6 NICs, the link status is down for all four ports. I use igb_uio as the kernel driver. Below is my testpmd commandline and the startup log.
sudo ./build/app/dpdk-testpmd -l 0,1,2,5 -b 81:00.0 -- -i EAL: Detected 20 lcore(s) EAL: Detected 4 NUMA nodes EAL: Detected static linkage of DPDK EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA' EAL: No available 1048576 kB hugepages reported EAL: Probing VFIO support... EAL: VFIO support initialized EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_cxgbe (1425:6408) device: 0000:05:00.4 (socket 0) rte_cxgbe_pmd: Maskless filter support disabled. Continuing EAL: Probe PCI driver: net_cxgbe (1425:6408) device: 0000:0b:00.4 (socket 0) rte_cxgbe_pmd: Maskless filter support disabled. Continuing Interactive-mode selected testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_0>: n=171456, size=2176, socket=0 testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_2>: n=171456, size=2176, socket=2 testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc Configuring Port 0 (socket 0) Port 0: 00:07:43:5D:4E:60 Configuring Port 1 (socket 0) Port 1: 00:07:43:5D:4E:68 Configuring Port 2 (socket 0) Port 2: 00:07:43:5D:51:00 Configuring Port 3 (socket 0) Port 3: 00:07:43:5D:51:08 Checking link statuses... Done testpmd> Your help is very much appreciated. Thanks, Danushka