[dpdk-dev] New to DPDK

[Ravi Rao]

Hi,
    Thanks for the inputs. I did download dpdk-1.8 and used your latest 
packet-gen-2.8.0 but I am getting this crash.
Looks like I am missing or not specifying the correct arguments. Can you 
please help ?
./app/pktgen -c 03 -n 1 --proc-type auto --socket-mem 128 --file-prefix 
pg -- -T -P -m "1.0, 2.1" -f themes/black-yellow.theme

!PANIC!: Cannot configure device: port=0, Num queues 2,2 (2)Invalid argument
PANIC in pktgen_config_ports():
Cannot configure device: port=0, Num queues 2,2 (2)Invalid argument6: 
[./app/pktgen() [0x4268c3]]
5: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) 
[0x7f6959e0dec5]]
4: [./app/pktgen(main+0x47c) [0x4262ac]]
3: [./app/pktgen(pktgen_config_ports+0x16ab) [0x43e09b]]
2: [./app/pktgen(__rte_panic+0xc1) [0x425d20]]
1: [./app/pktgen(rte_dump_stack+0x18) [0x4bce48]]
./doit.sh: line 53: 21912 Aborted                 (core dumped) 
./app/pktgen -c 0f -n 3 --proc-type auto --socket-mem 128 --file-prefix 
pg -- -T -P -m "1.0, 2.1" -f themes/black-yellow.theme
labadmin at Openstack:~/dpdk-1.8.0/pktgen-2.8.0$ sudo gdb ./app/pktgen 
-core core
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Reading symbols from ./app/pktgen...done.
[New LWP 21912]
[New LWP 21924]
[New LWP 21925]
[New LWP 21923]
[New LWP 21922]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `./app/pktgen -c 0f -n 3 --proc-type auto 
--socket-mem 128 --file-prefix pg -- -'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
#0  0x00007f6959e22cc9 in __GI_raise (sig=sig at entry=6) at 
../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56
56    ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007f6959e22cc9 in __GI_raise (sig=sig at entry=6) at 
../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56
#1  0x00007f6959e260d8 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:89
#2  0x0000000000425d25 in __rte_panic ()
#3  0x000000000043e09b in pktgen_config_ports () at pktgen-port-cfg.c:275
#4  0x00000000004262ac in main (argc=7, argv=0x7fff12510090) at 
pktgen-main.c:420
(gdb) info shared
>From                To                  Syms Read   Shared Object Library
0x00007f695aae6c20  0x00007f695ab050fa  Yes (*) 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so.0.8
0x00007f695a7e1610  0x00007f695a8501b6  Yes /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6
0x00007f695a5d6350  0x00007f695a5d933c  Yes /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1
0x00007f695a3d0ed0  0x00007f695a3d19ce  Yes /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
0x00007f695a1b79f0  0x00007f695a1c44a1  Yes 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
0x00007f6959e0b4a0  0x00007f6959f51113  Yes /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
0x00007f695ad20ae0  0x00007f695ad3b4e0  Yes /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
0x00007f6959bd8ab0  0x00007f6959be8995  Yes (*) 
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
(*): Shared library is missing debugging information.
(gdb)

Regards,
Ravi
On 01/14/2015 02:26 PM, Wiles, Keith wrote:
> BTW, you may want to check out the Pktgen-DPDK (I wrote) to give you a
> simple starting point or at least a traffic generator like system.
>
> http://dpdk.org/browse/apps/pktgen-dpdk/refs/
>
>
> On 1/14/15, 1:54 PM, "Ravi Rao" <Ravi.Rao at us.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks a lot for the quick response.
>> On 01/14/2015 01:27 PM, Wiles, Keith wrote:
>>> Most people I guess use a Xeon CPU class MB with one or two sockets
>>> running Linux with a supported NICs. I use a motherboard like the one
>>> below running Ubuntu 12.04 with 12G RAM and the 82599 NICs. You can find
>>> more supported NICs in the documentation and you need find the rest of
>>> the
>>> parts :-) You do not need much disk space I have a 500G disk and you can
>>> use less memory, but that is something you need to decide on.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/server-motherboards/s
>>> er
>>> ver-board-w2600cr.html
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/14/15, 12:33 PM, "Ravi Rao" <Ravi.Rao at us.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>      I am a newbee to DPDK. Can one of you please let me know if there
>>>> is
>>>> any reference board that is available which I can use to build and
>>>> tryout the dpdk stuff on.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ravi