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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Hi Team,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">I’m currently working with the dpdk-burst-replay tool and encountered an issue during execution. Below are the details:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Observation:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
During replay, we received the following informational message:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">port 0 is not on the good numa id (-1)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">As per the DPDK mailing list discussions, this warning is typically benign—often seen on NICs like Intel I225/I210, which do not report NUMA affinity. Hence, we proceeded with execution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Command Used:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">sudo numactl --cpunodebind=0 --membind=0 ./src/dpdk-replay Original_MAC.pcap 0000:01:00.1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Execution Output:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">preloading Original_MAC.pcap file (of size: 143959 bytes)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">file read at 100.00%<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">read 675 pkts (for a total of 143959 bytes). max packet length = 1518 bytes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">-> Needed MBUF size: 1648<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">-> Needed number of MBUFs: 675<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">-> Needed Memory = 1.061 MB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">-> Needed Hugepages of 1 GB = 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">-> Needed CPUs: 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">-> Create mempool of 675 mbufs of 1648 octets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">-> Will cache 675 pkts on 1 caches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Issue:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
Despite successful parsing of the pcap file and proper initialization, <b>no frames were transmitted or received</b> on either the sender or receiver sides.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Environment Details:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">NIC used: Intel I225/I210<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Hugepages configured: 1 GB<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">NUMA binding: --cpunodebind=0 --membind=0<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">OS: [Your Linux distribution, e.g., Ubuntu 20.04]<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">DPDK version: [Mention if known]<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Could you please advise if any additional setup, configuration, or known limitations may be impacting the packet transmission?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Thank you in advance for your support!<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Best regards,<br>
<b>Gokul K R</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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