[dpdk-dev] URGENT please help. Issue on ixgbe_tx_free_bufs version 2.0.0

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 07:58:27PM -0300, Ariel Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi Bruce, im going to list the results after the test´s.
> 
> I will start with the second hint you proposed:
> 
> 2) I upgrade our custom dpdk application with the latest dpdk code (2.1.0)
> and the issue still there.
> 
> 1) I test the load balancer app with the latest dpdk code (2.1.0) with the nic
> 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ with tapped traffic and the results are:
> 
>    a) Work fine after 6 hours of running. (For timing issues i cant wait
> longer but the issue always happend before 5 hours of running so i supposed
> we are fine in this test).
> 
>    b) I made a change to load balancer code to behave as our dpdk
> application in the workers code. This change is just for giving  the
> workers code enough load (load in terms of core frecuency) that made the rx
> core drop several packet because ring between workers and rx core is full.
> (Our application drop several packets because the workers code are not fast
> enough).
> 
>        In the last test, the segmentation fault arise , just in the same
> line that i previously report.
> 
What is the workload you are putting into the worker core? Can you provide a
diff for the load balancer app that reproduces this issue, since from your
description the problem may be in the extra code added in.

/Bruce