[dpdk-dev] unable to receive packets less than 4 with rte_eth_rx_burst Api -regarding.

[Perugu Hemasai Chandra Prasad]

Hi Haiyue,
                 It is working ,thanks for your response. can you please
tell what kind of performance limitation we have if RTE_I40E_DESCS_PER_LOOP
value is less than 4 ?

Thanks & Regards,
Hemasai


On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 2:53 PM Perugu Hemasai Chandra Prasad <
hemasaiperugu at 5g.iith.ac.in> wrote:

> Hi,
> I tried changing "RTE_I40E_DESCS_PER_LOOP" located in i40e_rxtx.h to 1 and
> recompiling DPDK but it didn't work. Is there any procedure to make it work
> for rx_burst of 1 packet?
>
> On Tue, 3 Sep, 2019, 12:32 Wang, Haiyue, <haiyue.wang at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Some PMD Vector Rx for performance has an hidden limitation like :
>>
>>         /* nb_pkts shall be less equal than RTE_I40E_MAX_RX_BURST */
>>         nb_pkts = RTE_MIN(nb_pkts, RTE_I40E_MAX_RX_BURST);
>>
>>         /* nb_pkts has to be floor-aligned to RTE_I40E_DESCS_PER_LOOP */
>>         nb_pkts = RTE_ALIGN_FLOOR(nb_pkts, RTE_I40E_DESCS_PER_LOOP);
>> <------ ;-)
>>
>> #define RTE_I40E_DESCS_PER_LOOP    4
>>
>> BR,
>> Haiyue
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Perugu Hemasai
>> Chandra Prasad
>> > Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 13:00
>> > To: users at dpdk.org; dev at dpdk.org
>> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] unable to receive packets less than 4 with
>> rte_eth_rx_burst Api -regarding.
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> >          I am trying to receive packets transmitted by another DPDK
>> > application running on different system. I am able to transmit packets
>> with
>> > a burst value of 1 using rte_eth_tx_burst Api, but unable to receive
>> > packets with a burst value less than 4 using rte_eth_rx_burst Api. can
>> > anyone please tell me the reason behind that? Is that because of any
>> EthDev
>> > configuration?. How to receive packets with a burst value of 1?
>> >
>> > Thanks & Regards,
>> > Hemasai
>>
>