[dpdk-dev] Intel fortville not working with multi-segment

Zhang, Helin helin.zhang at intel.com
Wed May 27 05:54:23 CEST 2015


Hi Nissim

Sorry for late reply!
Today I got a ready environment, and tried the latest DPDK code (on master branch) on my environment, it works well.
So could you help to try the latest code (R2.0 +) on your environment again, to see if the issue is still there or not?

Regards,
Helin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhang, Helin
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 4:51 PM
> To: Nissim Nisimov
> Cc: 'dev at dpdk.org'
> Subject: RE: Intel fortville not working with multi-segment
> 
> Hi Nissim
> 
> It seems that our validation guys here can reproduce it in our lab. I will
> check that soon later, and update you later.
> Thank you very much for the good finding!
> 
> Regards,
> Helin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nissim Nisimov [mailto:NissimN at Radware.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 11:44 AM
> > To: Zhang, Helin
> > Cc: 'dev at dpdk.org'
> > Subject: RE: Intel fortville not working with multi-segment
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using PF pass-through and it doesn't work even with 2000 bytes of
> > server response page size.
> > Looks like the first segment of each session is not received.
> >
> > When i am changing the server response size to 1000 bytes, all works
> > as expected.
> >
> > I am working with dpdk 1.8 version.
> >
> > Any idea why ? Is it related to i40e multi segment support?
> >
> > Thx
> > Nissim
> >
> > On May 11, 2015 5:03 AM, "Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang at intel.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Nissim
> > >
> > > Are you using PF pass-through or VF pass-through?
> > > For PF pass-through, you might have already gotten the fix.
> > > For VF pass-through, there is
> >
> > Hi Nissim
> >
> > Are you using PF pass-through or VF pass-through?
> > For PF pass-through, you might have already gotten the fix.
> > For VF pass-through, there is a bug fix which is needed for supporting
> > jumbo frame and multiple mbuf.
> > http://www.dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/4641/
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Helin
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Nissim
> Nisimov
> > > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 3:48 AM
> > > To: Nissim Nisimov; 'dev at dpdk.org'
> > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Intel fortville not working with
> > > multi-segment
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > can someone assist regarding this issue?
> > >
> > > Is it a known limitation in i40e/dpdk (no support for multi-segment)?
> > >
> > > Thx
> > > Nissim
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Nissim
> Nisimov
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 5:44 PM
> > > To: 'dev at dpdk.org'
> > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] Intel fortville not working with multi-segment
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I am trying to work with Intel Fortville (XL710) NICs in Passthrough
> > > mode from a VM running dpdk app.
> > >
> > >
> > > First I didn't have any TX traffic from the VM, I got dpdk patch for
> > > this issue and it fixed it.
> > > (http://www.dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/4588/)
> > >
> > > But now I see that when trying to run multi-segment traffic not all
> > > the packets reaching the VM (I tested it on bare metal as well and
> > > saw the same issue)
> > >
> > > Is it a known issue? any workaround for it?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Nissim



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