I can start testpmd of dpdk 17.11 with root user，after install MLNX_OFED driver。But can not start testpmd with non-root user。Why can not start testpmd with non-root?
EAL: Detected 128 lcore(s)
EAL: Probing VFIO support…
EAL: VFIO support initialized
EAL: PCI device 0000:41:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL: probe driver: 15b3:1015 net_mlx5
Interactive-mode selected
USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=203456, size=2304, socket=0
Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
net_mlx5: mlx5_txq.c:395: mlx5_txq_ibv_new(): port 0 Tx queue 0 QP creation failure
net_mlx5: mlx5_trigger.c:185: mlx5_dev_start(): port 0 Tx queue allocation failed: Cannot allocate memory
Fail to start port 0
Please stop the ports first
Done
Welcome to the NVIDIA Developer forums! This is the VGPU category, your issue looks to be related to Mellanox drivers. I am moving this to the appropriate category so the support team has visibility.
Hugepages must be reserved as root before running the application as non-root.
If the driver requires using physical addresses ¶, the executable file must be granted additional capabilities:
SYS_ADMIN to read /proc/self/pagemaps
IPC_LOCK to lock hugepages in memory
EAL: Detected 128 lcore(s)
EAL: Probing VFIO support…
EAL: VFIO support initialized
EAL: PCI device 0000:41:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL: probe driver: 15b3:1015 net_mlx5
Interactive-mode selected
USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=203456, size=2304, socket=0
Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
net_mlx5: mlx5_flow.c:2211: mlx5_flow_create_drop_queue(): port 0 cannot allocate QP for drop queue
net_mlx5: mlx5_trigger.c:179: mlx5_dev_start(): port 0 drop queue allocation failed: Operation not permitted
Fail to start port 0
Please stop the ports first
Done
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