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ubuntu-20.04dpdknicmellanoxdpdk-pmd
Raghavendrach006
Raghavendrach006

Reputation: 1

how to enable mellanox drivers (network interface card) for vector packet processing (vpp) in Ubuntu 20.04 version?

https://github.com/FD.io/vpp

we are unable to add the mellanox drivers in vpp so how to enable the drivers for vpp

  1. #apt update

2.#apt upgrade

then, install the following packages

3.#apt install make git cpp gcc libssl-dev libmnl-dev libnuma-dev net-tools rdma-core nasm

4.#git clone -b 20.09 https://github.com/FDio/vpp

5.#cd ~/vpp

6.#make install-dep

7.#make dpdk-install-dev DPDK_MLX5_PMD=y DPDK_MLX5_PMD_DLOPEN_DEPS=y

Next copy the Mellanox library to the /usr/lib directory

8.#cp /opt/vpp/external/x86_64/lib/librte_pmd_mlx5_glue.so* /usr/lib/

Then,make the deb packages that will later be installed

9.#make pkg-deb vpp_uses_dpdk_mlx5_pmd=y DPDK_MLX5_PMD_DLOPEN_DEPS=y

this steps i follwed but im still unable to see the inerfaces in vpp.

so how to enable mellanox drivers for vpp?

Upvotes: -1

Views: 1308

Answers (1)

Siva Tummala
Siva Tummala

Reputation: 36

By default, MLX4/MLX5 DPDK PMD is not enabled in dpdk makefile in VPP. In order to enable MLX PMDs, follow the steps below:

  1. Edit the dpdk.mk (external/packages/dpdk.mk) for enabling MLX4/MLX5 PMD enter image description here
  2. Execute "make install-ext-deps; make build-release"

Upvotes: 1

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