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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">DPDK Version: 21.11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Firmware version : 22.32.1010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">MLNX_OFED version: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.5-1.0.3.2-ubuntu20.04-x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We are trying to use the DPDK tx scheduling feature on a ConnectX6 DX adapter. We experience some issues with the feature not working.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The test is using Test-pmd in txonly mode.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Here are the command used:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">sudo ./dpdk-testpmd -l 0-3 -n 4 -- -i --portmask=0x1 --nb-cores=1 --eth-peer=0,01:00:5e:00:00:08 --tx-ip=10.10.1.168,239.0.0.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">testpmd> set fwd txonly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">testpmd> set burst 64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">testpmd> set txtimes 1000000,10000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">By doing this I expect the feature working. Am i missing something ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">I also added a print in txonly.c and clearly sees that the feature is not enabled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">dynf = rte_mbuf_dynflag_lookup<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(RTE_MBUF_DYNFLAG_TX_TIMESTAMP_NAME, NULL);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">if (dynf >= 0)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">timestamp_mask = 1ULL << dynf;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">dynf = rte_mbuf_dynfield_lookup<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(RTE_MBUF_DYNFIELD_TIMESTAMP_NAME, NULL);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">if (dynf >= 0)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">timestamp_off = dynf;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">both function ( rte_mbuf_dynfield_lookup and rte_mbuf_dynflag_lookup) returns -1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">I also tried to enabled the feature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">testpmd> port config 0 tx_offload send_on_timestamp on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">but when doing this DPDK tells me that I don't have these offload capabilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Hope you will be able to help me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Antoine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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