[dpdk-dev] traffic no longer readable...

[Thomas Monjalon]

2015-05-20 11:11, Jeff Weeks:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been developing with dpdk, using virtio, and I'm noticing that I can 
> often get into a state whereby I no longer receive any packets.
> 
> The call to rte_eth_rx_burst always returns 0, indicating the rx queue is 
> empty.
> 
> How is this queue filled?  I see there is a dpdk thread, which waits on an 
> epoll fd for interrupts.  I set a breakpoint here, and it appeared as though 
> we were waiting forever on the epoll fd.  This, to me, seemed to be the source 
> of the issue I'm seeing (presumably interrupts cause us to read off the nic and 
> fill the queue?)... but, oddly enough, I see the same behaviour even when I'm 
> receiving packets.
> 
> Have I misinterpreted how this is supposed to work?  Or is gdb behaving poorly 
> for me (wouldn't be surprising...).
> 
> What/how else can I further investigate this?

Are you using the latest version (git HEAD)?
Are you using DPDK vhost?