Early initialization
You can use the DPDK early initialization log to check that you have configured DPDK correctly. For example, you can confirm that the CPUs and interfaces are bound to DPDK usage.
diagnose dpdk log show early-init ----------------------------------------------------------------- DPDK early initialzation starts at 2020-11-26 09:53:14(UTC) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Content of early configuration file: status=1 multiqueue=1 sleep-on-idle=0 elasticbuffer=0 per-session-accounting=1 hugepage-percentage=25 nr_hugepages=10090 interfaces=port2 port3 port4 port5 cpus=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 rxcpus=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 vnpcpus=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ipscpus=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 txcpus=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Parse config file success! Check CPU definitions 'cpus' Check CPU definitions 'rxcpus' Check CPU definitions 'ipscpus' Check CPU definitions 'vnpcpus' Check CPU definitions 'txcpus' Check CPUs success! Huge page allocation done Ports enabled for DPDK: port2 port3 port4 port5 Port name to device name mapping: port1: eth0 port2: eth1 port3: eth2 port4: eth3 port5: eth4 port6: eth5 port7: eth6 port8: eth7 port9: eth8 port10: eth9 port11: eth10 port12: eth11 port13: eth12 port14: eth13 port15: eth14 port16: eth15 port17: eth16 port18: eth17 port19: eth18 port20: eth19 port21: eth20 port22: eth21 port23: eth22 port24: eth23 Start enabling DPDK kernel driver for port 'port2'... Getting PCI device info for eth1... reading pci dev /sys/class/net/eth1 link path: ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/net/eth1 Device info of eth1: dev_name: eth1 macaddr: 52:54:00:7c:08:31 pci_vendor: 0x15b3 pci_device: 0x1018 pci_id: 0000:00:08.0 pci_domain: 0 pci_bus: 0 pci_devid: 8 pci_function: 0 guid: n/a Device eth1 is mlx5_core name changed to slv1 Creating DPDK kernel driver for device eth1... Add VNP dev: eth1 PCI: 0000:00:08.0, Succeeded DPDK kernel driver for eth1 successfully created DPDK kernel driver enabled for port 'port2' (device name 'eth1') Start enabling DPDK kernel driver for port 'port3'... Getting PCI device info for eth2... reading pci dev /sys/class/net/eth2 link path: ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/net/eth2 Device info of eth2: dev_name: eth2 macaddr: 52:54:00:7c:08:32 pci_vendor: 0x15b3 pci_device: 0x1018 pci_id: 0000:00:09.0 pci_domain: 0 pci_bus: 0 pci_devid: 9 pci_function: 0 guid: n/a Device eth2 is mlx5_core name changed to slv2 Creating DPDK kernel driver for device eth2... Add VNP dev: eth2 PCI: 0000:00:09.0, Succeeded DPDK kernel driver for eth2 successfully created DPDK kernel driver enabled for port 'port3' (device name 'eth2') Start enabling DPDK kernel driver for port 'port4'... Getting PCI device info for eth3... reading pci dev /sys/class/net/eth3 link path: ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/net/eth3 Device info of eth3: dev_name: eth3 macaddr: 52:54:00:7c:08:33 pci_vendor: 0x15b3 pci_device: 0x1018 pci_id: 0000:00:0a.0 pci_domain: 0 pci_bus: 0 pci_devid: 10 pci_function: 0 guid: n/a Device eth3 is mlx5_core name changed to slv3 Creating DPDK kernel driver for device eth3... Add VNP dev: eth3 PCI: 0000:00:0a.0, Succeeded DPDK kernel driver for eth3 successfully created DPDK kernel driver enabled for port 'port4' (device name 'eth3') Start enabling DPDK kernel driver for port 'port5'... Getting PCI device info for eth4... reading pci dev /sys/class/net/eth4 link path: ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0/net/eth4 Device info of eth4: dev_name: eth4 macaddr: 52:54:00:7c:08:34 pci_vendor: 0x15b3 pci_device: 0x1018 pci_id: 0000:00:0b.0 pci_domain: 0 pci_bus: 0 pci_devid: 11 pci_function: 0 guid: n/a Device eth4 is mlx5_core name changed to slv4 Creating DPDK kernel driver for device eth4... Add VNP dev: eth4 PCI: 0000:00:0b.0, Succeeded DPDK kernel driver for eth4 successfully created DPDK kernel driver enabled for port 'port5' (device name 'eth4') Bind ports success! Make UIO nodes success! DPDK sanity test passed