[dpdk-users] [pktgen] pktgen Tx/Rx rates are not the same in loopback testing case

Paul Tsvika mozloverinweb at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 03:49:29 CEST 2017


Thanks Keith.

Let me post my questions again and inline the text.

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Hi developers,

Below is my hardware configuration:

Memory: 32G ( 16 G on two channels )
CPU: Xeon-D 1557
NIC: Intel X552/X557 10GBASE-T

CPU layout: ( Graph generated from cpu_layout.py )

Core and Socket Information (as reported by '/proc/cpuinfo')
============================================================

















*cores =  [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]sockets =  [0]
Socket 0               --------       Core 0  [0, 12]        Core 1  [1,
13]        Core 2  [2, 14]        Core 3  [3, 15]        Core 4  [4,
16]        Core 5  [5, 17]        Core 8  [6, 18]        Core 9  [7,
19]        Core 10 [8, 20]        Core 11 [9, 21]        Core 12 [10,
22]       Core 13 [11, 23]*
=============================================================

My motherboard has 2 10G ports so that I set up the testing experiment in
loopback.

I have compiled DPDK successfully and below is the steps how I configured
pktgen

$ sudo modprobe uio
$ sudo insmod ./build/kmod/igb_uio.ko
$ sudo ./usertools/dpdkdevbind.py -b igb_uio xxx:xx.0 xxx:xx.1
$ sudo ./app/pktgen -c 0x1f -n 2 -- -P -m "[1:3].0, [2:4].1"
<pktgen> start 0

I use core 1 and core 3 work for port 0 tx/rx respectively. Core 2 and core
4 work for port 1 tx/rx respectively.

I have some questions listed below:

1.

I checked other developers who run pktgen successfully should get the TX/RX
rate almost the same and the value should hit 10000 or 99xx.
I have not figured out yet why the rate went down when I run pktgen.






























* Flags:Port      :   P--------------:0   P--------------:1
10318718/0Link State        :       <UP-10000-FD>       <UP-10000-FD>
----TotalRate----Pkts/s Max/Rx     :                 0/0
10318848/8096382      10318848/8096382       Max/Tx     :
14880683/11528400                 0/0     14880683/11528400MBits/s
Rx/Tx     :              0/7747              5440/0
5440/7747Broadcast         :                   0
0Multicast         :                   0                   0  64
Bytes        :                   0          4603033247  65-127
:                   0                   0  128-255
:                   0                   0  256-511
:                   0                   0  512-1023
:                   0                   0  1024-1518
:                   0                   0Runts/Jumbos
:                 0/0                 0/0Errors Rx/Tx
:                 0/0                 0/0Total Rx Pkts
:                   0          4596736394      Tx Pkts     :
6588970508                   0      Rx MBs      :
0             3089006      Tx MBs      :
4427788                   0ARP/ICMP Pkts     :
0/0                 0/0Tx Count/% Rate   :       Forever /100%
Forever /100%Pattern Type      :             abcd...             abcd...Tx
Count/% Rate   :       Forever /100%       Forever /100%PktSize/Tx Burst
:           64 /   32           64 /   32 -------------------Src/Dest
Port     :         1234 / 5678         1234 / 5678sPkt Type:VLAN ID  :
IPv4 / TCP:0001     IPv4 / TCP:0001Dst  IP Address   :
192.168.1.1         192.168.0.1Src  IP Address   :      192.168.0.1/24
<http://192.168.0.1/24>      192.168.1.1/24 <http://192.168.1.1/24>
-------------------Dst MAC Address   :   0c:c4:7a:c5:43:7b
0c:c4:7a:c5:43:7a-- Pktgen Ver: 3.3:   8086:15ad/03:00.0
8086:15ad/03:00.1 -------------------*


2.1

My start_log below:

Copyright (c) <2010-2017>, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
   Pktgen created by: Keith Wiles -- >>> Powered by Intel® DPDK <<<

>>> Packet Burst 32, RX Desc 512, TX Desc 1024, mbufs/port 8192, mbuf cache
1024

*[PT]: looks like packet size is 32, should it suppose to be 64? Can I
configure it?*
*Also, why RX Desc and TX Desc is not the same ?*

=== port to lcore mapping table (# lcores 5) ===
   lcore:    0       1       2       3       4      Total
port   0: ( D: T) ( 1: 0) ( 0: 0) ( 0: 1) ( 0: 0) = ( 1: 1)
port   1: ( D: T) ( 0: 0) ( 1: 0) ( 0: 0) ( 0: 1) = ( 1: 1)
Total   : ( 0: 0) ( 1: 0) ( 1: 0) ( 0: 1) ( 0: 1)
  Display and Timer on lcore 0, rx:tx counts per port/lcore

Configuring 2 ports, MBUF Size 2176, MBUF Cache Size 1024
Lcore:
    1, RX-Only
                RX_cnt( 1): (pid= 0:qid= 0)
    2, RX-Only
                RX_cnt( 1): (pid= 1:qid= 0)
    3, TX-Only
                TX_cnt( 1): (pid= 0:qid= 0)
    4, TX-Only
                TX_cnt( 1): (pid= 1:qid= 0)

Port :
    0, nb_lcores  2, private 0x986ec0, lcores:  1  3
    1, nb_lcores  2, private 0x989220, lcores:  2  4



** Default Info (0000:03:00.0, if_index:0) **
   max_vfs        :   0, min_rx_bufsize    :1024, max_rx_pktlen : 15872
   max_rx_queues  : 128, max_tx_queues     :  64
   max_mac_addrs  : 128, max_hash_mac_addrs:4096, max_vmdq_pools:    64
   rx_offload_capa:  79, tx_offload_capa   : 191, reta_size     :   512,
flow_type_rss_offloads:0000000000038d34
   vmdq_queue_base:   0, vmdq_queue_num    : 128, vmdq_pool_base:     0
** RX Conf **
   pthresh        :   8, hthresh          :   8, wthresh        :     0
   Free Thresh    :  32, Drop Enable      :   0, Deferred Start :     0
** TX Conf **
   pthresh        :  32, hthresh          :   0, wthresh        :     0
   Free Thresh    :  32, RS Thresh        :  32, Deferred Start :     0,
TXQ Flags:00000f01

    Create: Default RX  0:0  - Memory used (MBUFs 8192 x (size 2176 + Hdr
128)) + 192 =  18433 KB headroom 128 2176
      Set RX queue stats mapping pid 0, q 0, lcore 1


    Create: Default TX  0:0  - Memory used (MBUFs 8192 x (size 2176 + Hdr
128)) + 192 =  18433 KB headroom 128 2176
    Create: Range TX    0:0  - Memory used (MBUFs 8192 x (size 2176 + Hdr
128)) + 192 =  18433 KB headroom 128 2176
    Create: Sequence TX 0:0  - Memory used (MBUFs 8192 x (size 2176 + Hdr
128)) + 192 =  18433 KB headroom 128 2176
    Create: Special TX  0:0  - Memory used (MBUFs   64 x (size 2176 + Hdr
128)) + 192 =    145 KB headroom 128 2176

                                                                       Port
memory used =  73873 KB
Initialize Port 0 -- TxQ 1, RxQ 1,  Src MAC 0c:c4:7a:c5:43:7a

** Default Info (0000:03:00.1, if_index:0) **
   max_vfs        :   0, min_rx_bufsize    :1024, max_rx_pktlen : 15872
   max_rx_queues  : 128, max_tx_queues     :  64
   max_mac_addrs  : 128, max_hash_mac_addrs:4096, max_vmdq_pools:    64
   rx_offload_capa:  79, tx_offload_capa   : 191, reta_size     :   512,
flow_type_rss_offloads:0000000000038d34
   vmdq_queue_base:   0, vmdq_queue_num    : 128, vmdq_pool_base:     0
** RX Conf **
   pthresh        :   8, hthresh          :   8, wthresh        :     0
   Free Thresh    :  32, Drop Enable      :   0, Deferred Start :     0
** TX Conf **
   pthresh        :  32, hthresh          :   0, wthresh        :     0
   Free Thresh    :  32, RS Thresh        :  32, Deferred Start :     0,
TXQ Flags:00000f01

    Create: Default RX  1:0  - Memory used (MBUFs 8192 x (size 2176 + Hdr
128)) + 192 =  18433 KB headroom 128 2176
      Set RX queue stats mapping pid 1, q 0, lcore 2


    Create: Default TX  1:0  - Memory used (MBUFs 8192 x (size 2176 + Hdr
128)) + 192 =  18433 KB headroom 128 2176
    Create: Range TX    1:0  - Memory used (MBUFs 8192 x (size 2176 + Hdr
128)) + 192 =  18433 KB headroom 128 2176
    Create: Sequence TX 1:0  - Memory used (MBUFs 8192 x (size 2176 + Hdr
128)) + 192 =  18433 KB headroom 128 2176
    Create: Special TX  1:0  - Memory used (MBUFs   64 x (size 2176 + Hdr
128)) + 192 =    145 KB headroom 128 2176

                                                                       Port
memory used =  73873 KB
Initialize Port 1 -- TxQ 1, RxQ 1,  Src MAC 0c:c4:7a:c5:43:7b
                                                                      Total
memory used = 147746 KB
Port  0: Link Down <Enable promiscuous mode>
*[PT]: I don't know why the Port ) went down at this point. Is there any
other thing I should check ?*

Port  1: Link Up - speed 10000 Mbps - full-duplex <Enable promiscuous mode>

pktgen_packet_capture_init: mz->len 4194304

=== Display processing on lcore 0
  RX processing lcore:   1 rx:  1 tx:  0
For RX found 1 port(s) for lcore 1
  RX processing lcore:   2 rx:  1 tx:  0
For RX found 1 port(s) for lcore 2
  TX processing lcore:   3 rx:  0 tx:  1
For TX found 1 port(s) for lcore 3
  TX processing lcore:   4 rx:  0 tx:  1
For TX found 1 port(s) for lcore 4





Thanks for any feedback.


-- 
P.T


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