[dpdk-dev] Port stats zero when using MLX5 DPDK driver
Shahaf Shuler
shahafs at mellanox.com
Tue Jan 10 09:43:37 CET 2017
supporting this functionality is not on the plans. If you wish to read statistics of a running process you can use ethtool –S <device_name>.
It will provide you the statistics of the port.
Note that those statistics count the number of bytes/packet which were received/sent by the port. This number may not be equal to the number of packet/bytes which were send/received on the PMD.
--Shahaf
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Hi Shahaf,
Thanks for the clarification!
Is there a plan for this functionality to be provided (soon)? (or any technical limitation that stands in this way)
Thanks and best regards,
Georgios
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com<mailto:shahafs at mellanox.com>> wrote:
Hi Georgios,
It is not support on Mellanox PMD to read the primary process counters from a secondary process.
--Shahaf
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Subject: [dpdk-dev] Port stats zero when using MLX5 DPDK driver
Hi,
I have a simple setup with a machine that contains a dual port 10 GbE Intel 82599ES NIC and another dual port 100 GbE Mellanox ConnectX-4 NIC. The Intel ports are 0 and 1, while the Mellanox ones are 2 and 3.
I properly compiled DPDK 16.11 and test-pmd works just fine for all 4 ports.
Then, I ran a simple primary application that forwards packets from 0 <-->
1 and 2 <--> 3 and started dpdk-procinfo -- --stats (or --xstats) as a secondary monitoring process, while sending some traffic to all 4 ports.
The problem I see is that the statistics reported by the Mellanox NICs are always zero (Intel ports report just fine).
What is the reason behind this behavior? Is there a bug in the driver (maybe recently fixed by DPDK 17.02 rc?) or is it simply a lack of this functionality?
Thanks and best regards,
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Georgios Katsikas
Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant
Network Systems Lab (NSL)
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Network Systems Lab (NSL)
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