[dpdk-dev] Fwd: Re: traffic no longer readable...

Jeff Weeks jweeks at neuraldk.org
Wed May 20 17:59:58 CEST 2015


forgot to include the list...

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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] traffic no longer readable...
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 11:56:47 AM
From: Jeff Weeks <jweeks at neuraldk.org>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>

On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 05:33:20 PM you wrote:
> 2015-05-20 11:11, Jeff Weeks:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I've been developing with dpdk, using virtio, and I'm noticing that I can
> > often get into a state whereby I no longer receive any packets.
> > 
> > The call to rte_eth_rx_burst always returns 0, indicating the rx queue is
> > empty.
> > 
> > How is this queue filled?  I see there is a dpdk thread, which waits on an
> > epoll fd for interrupts.  I set a breakpoint here, and it appeared as
> > though we were waiting forever on the epoll fd.  This, to me, seemed to
> > be the source of the issue I'm seeing (presumably interrupts cause us to
> > read off the nic and fill the queue?)... but, oddly enough, I see the
> > same behaviour even when I'm receiving packets.
> > 
> > Have I misinterpreted how this is supposed to work?  Or is gdb behaving
> > poorly for me (wouldn't be surprising...).
> > 
> > What/how else can I further investigate this?
> 
> Are you using the latest version (git HEAD)?
> Are you using DPDK vhost?

I am using vhost, yes.
I'm currently using 1.8.  Is this a known issue fixed in HEAD, or 2.0?

--Jeff
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