virtual functions are not shown!

[soroush aalibagi]

I have a Netronome Agilio CX Dual-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet SmartNIC hosted on a Linux server which is connected to a Windows server running Programmer Studio. Everything works. When I run my debugger in programmer studio, I can see four virtual ports (vf0_0, vf0_1, vf0_2, vf0_3) are added to my Linux server, which are shown using 'ip a' command.
Now, I am trying to install the one of the same smart nics on another Linux server and I connect it to the Windows server. When I run the debugger in Programmer Studio, the debugger starts working without any error; however, I do not see any virtual interface in my Linux server! I winder what is the problem?

[Octavio Herrera-Ruiz]

Hello,

   The issue was long addressed by our team, but since it was not documented here I'll paste the relevant info for the benefit of the rest of the community:

   From the logs from your system we have:

# sudo cat /var/log/nfp-sdk6-rte.log 

 RTE: 2022-09-06 15:32:19:976 - pif_log.c:162 log level set to INFO (4) 

RTE: 2022-09-06 15:32:19:976 - nfp_pif.c:45 Attaching new client to device 0 

...skipping...

RTE: 2022-09-06 15:36:37:231 - nfp_pif_design.c:90 No ARI Support found. VFs not supported. 

RTE: 2022-09-06 15:36:38:508 - nfp_pif_design.c:90 Detected lithium platform, using li-2x10GE-prepend.json for MAC init
...skipping...

   Netronome' SmartNICs require that your host system supports both: SR-IOV and ARI. Both need to be enabled (@BIOS and @Kernel, if applicable) for the system to work properly.