[dpdk-users] Problems running test-pipeline.

[Vijay S]

I was able to fix this issue in test-pipeline by adding a 1 sec sleep
before calling app_ports_check_link in the function app_init_ports().  The
eth ports require some time to come up after rte_eth_dev_start..

Thnx,
Vijay


On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Arto Sänkiaho <artosank at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> The port(s) are physically connected, that is not an issue here.
>
> I have 2 nics and they are connected to each other and when i run testpmd
> or l2fwd or l3fwd applications, they work flawlessly.
>
> Pktgen also works without issues and i can generate traffic between the
> ports.
>
> The problem appears when i try to run testpipeline, it always prints out
> that "Some NIC ports are DOWN" and exits.
>
> Here is an output when i try to run it with links 0 and 1.
>
> $ sudo ./testpipeline -l 1,2,3 -- -p 0x03
> EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 0 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 2 as core 1 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 3 as core 1 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 4 as core 2 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 5 as core 2 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 6 as core 3 on socket 0
> EAL: Detected lcore 7 as core 3 on socket 0
> EAL: Support maximum 128 logical core(s) by configuration.
> EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
> EAL: VFIO modules not all loaded, skip VFIO support...
> EAL: Setting up physically contiguous memory...
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcda6200000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0xc00000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcda5400000 (size = 0xc00000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x32800000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcd72a00000 (size = 0x32800000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x19400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcd59400000 (size = 0x19400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcd58e00000 (size = 0x400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x600000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcd58600000 (size = 0x600000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x69400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fccef000000 (size = 0x69400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1c00000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcced200000 (size = 0x1c00000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x6c00000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcce6400000 (size = 0x6c00000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x600000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcce5c00000 (size = 0x600000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcce5800000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcce5400000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x5400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fccdfe00000 (size = 0x5400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x70600000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcc6f600000 (size = 0x70600000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcc6f200000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcc6ec00000 (size = 0x400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x8e600000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbe0400000 (size = 0x8e600000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbe0000000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdfc00000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x800000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdf200000 (size = 0x800000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdee00000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbde800000 (size = 0x400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbde400000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdde00000 (size = 0x400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdda00000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdd600000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdd000000 (size = 0x400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdca00000 (size = 0x400000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdc600000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdc200000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdbe00000 (size = 0x200000)
> EAL: Requesting 3637 pages of size 2MB from socket 0
> EAL: TSC frequency is ~1795854 KHz
> EAL: Master lcore 1 is ready (tid=a8e13940;cpuset=[1])
> EAL: lcore 2 is ready (tid=a7715700;cpuset=[2])
> EAL: lcore 3 is ready (tid=a6f14700;cpuset=[3])
> EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
> EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcda6400000
> EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcda6500000
> PMD: eth_igb_dev_init(): port_id 0 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x1533
> EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
> EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcda6504000
> EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcda6604000
> PMD: eth_igb_dev_init(): port_id 1 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x1533
> USER1: Creating the mbuf pool ...
> USER1: Initializing NIC port 0 ...
> PMD: eth_igb_rx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7fcbdcaa7d40
> hw_ring=0x7fcbdcaa8180 dma_addr=0x2098a8180
> PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): To improve 1G driver performance, consider
> setting the TX WTHRESH value to 4, 8, or 16.
> PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7fcbdca95bc0
> hw_ring=0x7fcbdca97c00 dma_addr=0x209897c00
> PMD: eth_igb_start(): <<
> USER1: Initializing NIC port 1 ...
> PMD: eth_igb_rx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7fcbdca85540
> hw_ring=0x7fcbdca85980 dma_addr=0x209885980
> PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): To improve 1G driver performance, consider
> setting the TX WTHRESH value to 4, 8, or 16.
> PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7fcbdca733c0
> hw_ring=0x7fcbdca75400 dma_addr=0x209875400
> PMD: eth_igb_start(): <<
> Port: 0
> USER1: Port 0 (0 Gbps) DOWN
> Port: 1
> USER1: Port 1 (0 Gbps) DOWN
> PANIC in app_ports_check_link():
> Some NIC ports are DOWN
> 6: [./testpipeline() [0x42b7b3]]
> 5: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)
> [0x7fcda7f38ec5]]
> 4: [./testpipeline(main+0x34) [0x42a2f4]]
> 3: [./testpipeline(app_init+0x34e) [0x42c0be]]
> 2: [./testpipeline(__rte_panic+0xc9) [0x424d9e]]
> 1: [./testpipeline(rte_dump_stack+0x1a) [0x492baa]]
>
> Any ideas what's the problem here ? Is there some step i must do before
> running the testpipeline ?
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Zhang, Roy Fan <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you for using DPDK.
> >
> > testpipeline mainly passes the received packets to different tables
> inside
> > pipeline, and, if the pipeline works correctly, forwards the packets back
> > to output ports.
> >
> > To use testpipeline, you may have to have Ethernet packets sending to the
> > correct port(s) continuously.
> > And the only way to check if the pipeline correctly is to monitor the
> port
> > output seeing if the pipeline has forwarded the packets back. There is no
> > interactive commands for testpipeline.
> >
> > Please check if your port is physically connected. To avail the purpose
> of
> > testpipeline, please connect your server running the program with the
> with
> > device capable of generating and monitoring packet flows, like a packet
> > generator.
> > If the answer is yes, please bond different ports to dpdk and run the
> > program again.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Fan
> >
> > > Hello, i am new with DPDK and i am trying to run the test-pipeline
> > program.
> > >
> > > Here is the output when i run it:
> > >
> > > ./testpipeline -c 0x07 -- -p 0x01
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 0 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 2 as core 1 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 3 as core 1 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 4 as core 2 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 5 as core 2 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 6 as core 3 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 7 as core 3 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Support maximum 128 logical core(s) by configuration.
> > > EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
> > > EAL: VFIO modules not all loaded, skip VFIO support...
> > > EAL: Setting up physically contiguous memory...
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x7000000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6689400000 (size = 0x7000000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1c00000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6687600000 (size = 0x1c00000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x4000000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6683400000 (size = 0x4000000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1800000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6681a00000 (size = 0x1800000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6681600000 (size = 0x200000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x11800000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f666fc00000 (size = 0x11800000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f666f800000 (size = 0x200000)
> > > EAL: Requesting 256 pages of size 2MB from socket 0
> > > EAL: TSC frequency is ~1795851 KHz
> > > EAL: Master lcore 0 is ready (tid=91f13940;cpuset=[0])
> > > EAL: lcore 1 is ready (tid=6f7ff700;cpuset=[1])
> > > EAL: lcore 2 is ready (tid=6effe700;cpuset=[2])
> > > EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
> > > EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
> > > EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7f6690400000
> > > EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7f6690500000
> > > PMD: eth_igb_dev_init(): port_id 0 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x1533
> > > EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
> > > EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
> > > EAL:   Not managed by a supported kernel driver, skipped
> > > USER1: Creating the mbuf pool ...
> > > USER1: Initializing NIC port 0 ...
> > > PMD: eth_igb_rx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7f666f936dc0
> > > hw_ring=0x7f666f937200 dma_addr=0x208337200
> > > PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): To improve 1G driver performance,
> > consider setting the TX WTHRESH value to 4, 8, or 16.
> > > PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7f666f924c40
> > > hw_ring=0x7f666f926c80 dma_addr=0x208326c80
> > > PMD: eth_igb_start(): <<
> > > USER1: Port 0 (0 Gbps) DOWN
> > > PANIC in app_ports_check_link():
> > > Some NIC ports are DOWN
> > > 6: [./testpipeline() [0x42b7b3]]
> > > 5: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)
> > > [0x7f6691038ec5]]
> > > 4: [./testpipeline(main+0x34) [0x42a2f4]]
> > > 3: [./testpipeline(app_init+0x336) [0x42c0a6]]
> > > 2: [./testpipeline(__rte_panic+0xc9) [0x424d9e]]
> > > 1: [./testpipeline(rte_dump_stack+0x1a) [0x492b8a] $
> > >
> > > Here is the nic bind info
> > >
> > > $ dpdk_nic_bind -s
> > >
> > > Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
> > ============================================
> > > 0000:01:00.0 'I210 Gigabit Network Connection' drv=igb_uio unused=
> > >
> > > Network devices using kernel driver
> > > ===================================
> > > 0000:00:19.0 'Ethernet Connection I218-LM' if=eth2 drv=e1000e
> > unused=igb_uio *Active*
> > > 0000:02:00.0 'I210 Gigabit Network Connection' if=eth0 drv=igb
> > unused=igb_uio
> > >
> > > Other network devices
> > > =====================
> > > <none>
> > >
> > > Changing port mask to 0x04 or any other value gives following error:
> > >
> > > ./testpipeline -c 0x07 -- -p 0x04
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 0 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 2 as core 1 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 3 as core 1 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 4 as core 2 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 5 as core 2 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 6 as core 3 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Detected lcore 7 as core 3 on socket 0
> > > EAL: Support maximum 128 logical core(s) by configuration.
> > > EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
> > > EAL: VFIO modules not all loaded, skip VFIO support...
> > > EAL: Setting up physically contiguous memory...
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x7000000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fceeb000000 (size = 0x7000000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1c00000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcee9200000 (size = 0x1c00000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x4000000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcee5000000 (size = 0x4000000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1800000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcee3600000 (size = 0x1800000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcee3200000 (size = 0x200000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x11800000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fced1800000 (size = 0x11800000)
> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fced1400000 (size = 0x200000)
> > > EAL: Requesting 256 pages of size 2MB from socket 0
> > > EAL: TSC frequency is ~1795851 KHz
> > > EAL: Master lcore 0 is ready (tid=f3c37940;cpuset=[0])
> > > EAL: lcore 1 is ready (tid=d13ff700;cpuset=[1])
> > > EAL: lcore 2 is ready (tid=d0bfe700;cpuset=[2])
> > > EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
> > > EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
> > > EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcef2000000
> > > EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcef2100000
> > > PMD: eth_igb_dev_init(): port_id 0 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x1533
> > > EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
> > > EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
> > > EAL:   Not managed by a supported kernel driver, skipped
> > > USER1: Creating the mbuf pool ...
> > > USER1: Initializing NIC port 2 ...
> > > PANIC in app_init_ports():
> > > Cannot init NIC port 2 (-22)
> > > 6: [./testpipeline() [0x42b7b3]]
> > > 5: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)
> > > [0x7fcef2d5cec5]]
> > > 4: [./testpipeline(main+0x34) [0x42a2f4]]
> > > 3: [./testpipeline(app_init+0x3a2) [0x42c112]]
> > > 2: [./testpipeline(__rte_panic+0xc9) [0x424d9e]]
> > > 1: [./testpipeline(rte_dump_stack+0x1a) [0x492b8a]]
> > >
> > > What i'm doing wrong here ?
> > >
> > > There is probably some configuration step missing or misconfiguration
> > but i could not figure out what it is.
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance.
> >
>