[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-users] Traffic doesn't forward on virtual devices

[Bala Sankaran]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ciara Loftus" <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
> To: "Aaron Conole" <aconole at redhat.com>, "Bala Sankaran" <bsankara at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Keith Wiles" <keith.wiles at intel.com>, users at dpdk.org, dev at dpdk.org, "Maxime Coquelin"
> <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>, "Ian Stokes" <ian.stokes at intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 4:20:31 AM
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-users] Traffic doesn't forward on virtual devices
> 
> > 
> > Bala Sankaran <bsankara at redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Perfect!
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: "Keith Wiles" <keith.wiles at intel.com>
> > >> To: "Bala Sankaran" <bsankara at redhat.com>
> > >> Cc: users at dpdk.org, "Aaron Conole" <aconole at redhat.com>
> > >> Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 11:41:46 AM
> > >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Traffic doesn't forward on virtual devices
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > On Jul 5, 2018, at 9:53 AM, Bala Sankaran <bsankara at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Greetings,
> > >> >
> > >> > I am currently using dpdk version 17.11.2. I see that there are a few
> > other
> > >> > revisions in 17.11.3, followed by the latest stable version of
> > >> > 18.02.2.
> > >> >
> > >> > Based on the issues I have faced so far (see Original
> > >> > Message below), would you suggest that  I go for
> > >> > another version? If yes, which one? In essence, my question is, would
> > >> > resorting to a different version of dpdk solve my current issue of
> > >> > virtqueue id being invalid?
> > >> >
> > >> > Any help is much appreciated.
> > >>
> > >> From a support perspective using the latest version 18.05 or the long
> > >> term
> > >> supported version 17.11.3 is easier for most to help. I would pick the
> > >> latest release 18.05 myself. As for fixing this problem I do not know.
> > >> You
> > >> can look into the MAINTAINERS file and find the maintainers of area(s)
> > and
> > >> include them in the CC line on your questions as sometimes they miss the
> > >> emails as the volume can be high at times.
> > 
> > Thanks Keith.
> > 
> > I took a quick look and it seems like the queues are not setting up
> > correctly between OvS and testpmd?  Probably there's a step missing
> > somewhere, although nothing in either the netdev-dpdk.c from OvS nor the
> > rte_ethdev was obvious to stand out to me.
> > 
> > I've CC'd Maxime, Ian, and Ciara - maybe they have a better idea to try?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think the appropriate driver to use in this test on the test-pmd side might
> be virtio-user.
> Follow the same steps just change your vdev test-pmd arguments to:
> --vdev='net_virtio_user0,path=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/vhu0'
> 
> Thanks,
> Ciara
> 

Thank you for your response.

I tried using virtio-user, but I face an error that says: Failed to prepare memory for vhost-user.
The command I ran is as below: 

[root at localhost openvswitch]# testpmd --socket-mem=1024 --vdev='net_virtio_user1,path=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/vhu1,server=1'  --vdev='net_tap1,iface=tap1' --file-prefix page1 -- -i
EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/page1/mp_socket
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
EAL: WARNING: cpu flags constant_tsc=yes nonstop_tsc=no -> using unreliable clock cycles !
rte_pmd_tap_probe(): Initializing pmd_tap for net_tap1 as tap1
Interactive-mode selected
Warning: NUMA should be configured manually by using --port-numa-config and --ring-numa-config parameters along with --numa.
testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=171456, size=2176, socket=0
testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc
Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
virtio_user_server_reconnect(): WARNING: Some features 0x1801 are not supported by vhost-user!
get_hugepage_file_info(): Exceed maximum of 8
prepare_vhost_memory_user(): Failed to prepare memory for vhost-user
Port 0: DA:60:01:0C:4B:29
Configuring Port 1 (socket 0)
Port 1: D2:5A:94:68:AF:B3
Checking link statuses...

Port 0: LSC event
Done

I tried increasing the socket-memory, I checked /proc/meminfo and found there were over 
1280 free hugepages. 
So my understanding is that this is not an issue where I don't have enough hugepages.

Can you provide leads on what's wrong here?

> > 
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks
> > >> >
> > >> > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> >> From: "Bala Sankaran" <bsankara at redhat.com>
> > >> >> To: users at dpdk.org
> > >> >> Cc: "Aaron Conole" <aconole at redhat.com>
> > >> >> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:18:13 PM
> > >> >> Subject: Traffic doesn't forward on virtual devices
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Hello team,
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I am working on a project to do PVP tests on dpdk. As a first step, I
> > >> >> would
> > >> >> like to get traffic flow between tap devices. I'm in process of
> > >> >> setting up
> > >> >> the architecture, in which I've used testpmd to forward traffic
> > between
> > >> >> two
> > >> >> virtual devices(tap and vhost users) over a bridge.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> While I'm at it, I've identified that the internal dev_attached flag
> > >> >> never
> > >> >> gets set to 1 from the rte_eth_vhost.c file. I've tried to manually
> > >> >> set it
> > >> >> to 1 in the start routine, but I just see that the queue index being
> > >> >> referenced is out of range.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I'm not sure how to proceed.  Has anyone had luck using testpmd to
> > >> >> communicate with vhost-user devices?  If yes, any hints on a
> > workaround?
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Here's how I configured my setup after installing dpdk and
> > openvswitch:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> 1. To start ovs-ctl:
> > >> >> /usr/local/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl start
> > >> >>
> > >> >> 2. Setup hugepages:
> > >> >> echo '2048' > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
> > >> >>
> > >> >> 3. Add a new network namespace:
> > >> >> ip netns add ns1
> > >> >>
> > >> >> 4. Add and set a bridge:
> > >> >> ovs-vsctl add-br dpdkbr0 -- set Bridge dpdkbr0 datapath_type=netdev
> > >> >> options:vhost-server-path=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/vhu0
> > >> >> ovs-vsctl show
> > >> >>
> > >> >> 5. Add a vhost user to the bridge created:
> > >> >> ovs-vsctl add-port dpdkbr0 vhu0 -- set Interface vhu0
> > >> >> type=dpdkvhostuserclient
> > >> >>
> > >> >> 6. Execute bash on the network namespace:
> > >> >> ip netns exec ns1 bash
> > >> >>
> > >> >> 7. Use testpmd and connect the namespaces:
> > >> >> testpmd --socket-mem=512
> > >> >> --
> > vdev='eth_vhost0,iface=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/vhu0,queues=1'
> > >> >> --vdev='net_tap0,iface=tap0' --file-prefix page0 -- -i
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I repeated steps 3 - 7 for another network namespace on the same
> > bridge.
> > >> >> Following this, in fresh terminals, I assigned IP addresses to the
> > >> >> tap
> > >> >> devices created and tried pinging them. From port statistics,
> > >> >> I identified the above mentioned issue with the dev_attached and
> > queue
> > >> >> statistics.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I would greatly appreciate any help from your end.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Thanks.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> -------------------------------------------------
> > >> >> Bala Sankaran
> > >> >> Networking Services Intern
> > >> >> Red Hat Inc .,
> > >> >>
> > >> > -------------------------------------------------
> > >> > Bala Sankaran
> > >> > Networking Services Intern
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Keith
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------
> > > Bala Sankaran
> > > Networking Services Intern
> > > Red Hat Inc .,
> 

Thanks.
Bala.