[dpdk-users] TestPMD testing with VMX3NET Devices...

[Jamie Fargen]

Rami-

Attached is the results of running testpmd with loglevel=8.

The setting CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VMXNET3_PMD=y seems to be set.
# grep 'CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VMXNET3_PMD=y' build/.config
CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VMXNET3_PMD=y

Should a library be build like
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_vmxnet3.so.1?  If so I don't see it.
# find /usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_bnxt.so.2
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_e1000.so.1
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_enic.so.1
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_failsafe.so.1
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_i40e.so.2
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_mlx4.so.1
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_mlx5.so.1
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_nfp.so.1
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_qede.so.1
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_ring.so.2
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
/usr/lib64/dpdk-pmds/librte_pmd_virtio.so.1

Regards,
-Jamie

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Rami Rosen <roszenrami at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jamie,
> Can you run this with --log-level=8 -w 0000:0b:00.0 -w 0000:13:00.0
> and post the results here?
>
> (I mean like the following:
> testpmd -l 1,2,3 -n 1 --log-level=8 -w 0000:0b:00.0 -w 0000:13:00.0 --
> --disable-hw-vlan --forward-mode=mac
> --eth-peer=0,00:00:00:00:33:33 --eth-peer=1,00:00:00:00:44:44 -i
> --nb-cores=2 --rxq=8 --txq=8 --rxd=8192 --txd=8192)
>
>  and also to be on the safe side, make sure that
> in build/.config you have
> CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VMXNET3_PMD=y
> (It should be so by default for dpdk-stable-17.11.4)
>
> Regards,
> Rami Rosen
>
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 19:39, Jamie Fargen <jfargen at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello-
> >
> > Would like to do some performance analysis using testpmd on a RHEL7
> VMWare
> > guest using a VMX3NET network devices. Similar tests have been performed
> > using RHEL7 KVM guests using VirtIO network devices, but the same process
> > does not work with VMX3NET network interfaces.
> >
> > The dpdk-stable-17.11 has been compiled and it looks like the devices are
> > properly bound to the uio driver, but when testpmd is started it is
> unable
> > to locate the devices.
> >
> > This is the basic process of how the uio module is loaded, the devices
> our
> > bound to the driver, and testpmd is started.
> >
> > [root at redacted ~]# cat startTestPmd17.sh
> > #!/bin/bash -x
> > modprobe uio
> > insmod /root/dpdk-stable-17.11.4/build/kmod/igb_uio.ko
> > /root/dpdk-stable-17.11.4/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b igb_uio 0b:00.0
> > /root/dpdk-stable-17.11.4/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b igb_uio 13:00.0
> > mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge
> > echo 1024 > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-
> > 2048kB/nr_hugepages
> > testpmd -l 1,2,3 -n 1 -- --disable-hw-vlan --forward-mode=mac
> > --eth-peer=0,00:00:00:00:33:33 --eth-peer=1,00:00:00:00:44:44 -i
> > --nb-cores=2 --rxq=8 --txq=8 --rxd=8192 --txd=8192
> >
> > EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
> > EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
> > EAL: Probing VFIO support...
> > EAL: No probed ethernet devices
> > Set mac packet forwarding mode
> > Interactive-mode selected
> > USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=163456, size=2176,
> > socket=0
> > Done
> > testpmd>
> >
> >
> > There are network devices bound to DPDK-compatible uio driver.
> > [root at redacted ~]# dpdk-stable-17.11.4/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -s
> >
> > Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
> > ============================================
> > 0000:0b:00.0 'VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller 07b0' drv=igb_uio
> unused=vmxnet3
> > 0000:13:00.0 'VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller 07b0' drv=igb_uio
> unused=vmxnet3
> >
> > Network devices using kernel driver
> > ===================================
> > 0000:1b:00.0 'VMXNET3 Ethernet Controller 07b0' if=ens256 drv=vmxnet3
> > unused=igb_uio *Active*
> >
> >
> > If anyone has any spare cycles to help me solve this issue it would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jamie Fargen
> > Senior Consultant
> > jfargen at redhat.com
> > 813-817-4430
>



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Jamie Fargen
Senior Consultant
jfargen at redhat.com
813-817-4430