[dpdk-dev] [Q] l2fwd in examples directory

[Moon-Sang Lee]

thanks bruce.

I didn't know that PCI slots have direct socket affinity.
is it static or configurable through PCI configuration space?
well, my NUT, two node NUMA, seems always returns -1 on calling
rte_eth_dev_socket_id(portid) whenever portid is 0, 1, or other values.
I appreciate if you explain more about getting the affinity.

p.s.
I'm using intel Xeon processor and 1G NIC(82576).




On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Bruce Richardson <
bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:08:57AM +0900, Moon-Sang Lee wrote:
> > There is codes as below in examples/l2fwd/main.c and I think
> > rte_eth_dev_socket_id(portid)
> > always returns -1(SOCKET_ID_ANY) since there is no association code
> between
> > port and
> > lcore in the example codes.
>
> Can you perhaps clarify what you mean here. On modern NUMA systems, such
> as those
> from Intel :-), the PCI slots are directly connected to the CPU sockets,
> so the
> ethernet ports do indeed have a direct NUMA affinity. It's not something
> that
> the app needs to specify.
>
> /Bruce
>
> > (i.e. I need to find a matching lcore from
> > lcore_queue_conf[] with portid
> > and call rte_lcore_to_socket_id(lcore_id).)
> >
> >         /* init one RX queue */
> >         fflush(stdout);
> >         ret = rte_eth_rx_queue_setup(portid, 0, nb_rxd,
> >                          rte_eth_dev_socket_id(portid),
> >                          NULL,
> >                          l2fwd_pktmbuf_pool);
> >         if (ret < 0)
> >             rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "rte_eth_rx_queue_setup:err=%d,
> > port=%u\n",
> >                   ret, (unsigned) portid);
> >
> > It works fine even though memory is allocated in different NUMA node.
> But I
> > wonder there is
> > a DPDK API that associates inlcore to port internally thus
> > rte_eth_devices[portid].pci_dev->numa_node
> > contains proper node.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Moon-Sang Lee, SW Engineer
> > Email: sang0627 at gmail.com
> > Wisdom begins in wonder. *Socrates*
>



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