pktgen-dpdk

[idata]

Hi everyone,

I have a questions about pktgen-dpdk.

That is,

why the Total Tx is not equal to Rx, and had no errors at the same time?

Like this:

The relevant environment is:

OS type: CentOS 6.6 x64

pktgen-dpdk version: 2.8.1

DPDK version: 2.0.0

NIC: 82599ES

Thanks !

Best regards,

Leo

[Gabriel_T_Intel]

Hello Leo,

Welcome back to the Intel Embedded Community.

We have notice that you are using these addresses: 192.168.0.1/24 and 192.168.1.1/24, according to these IPs you are using different subnets.

Is there any device in between? any router?

Please send a network diagram.

Regards,

Gabriel Thomas

[idata]

Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for reply.

Isn't it just a default settings ?

I just run the command:

./app/pktgen -c 0x1f -n 3 -- -P -m "2.0, 3.1" -l pktgen.log

My diagram is like below

Best regards,

Leo

[idata]

Hello Leo_Yeh,

Thanks for the update!

We have consulted this with our DPDK engineers and as soon as we have more information we'll get back with you.

Best regards,

Jimmy.

[Josue_C_Intel]

Hello Leo_Yeh

The Supported Operating Systems for the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) are the following:

 Fedora release 18 Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 6.3

 Wind River* Linux* 5 Ubuntu* 12.04 LTS

 SUSE Enterprise Linux* 11 SP2 FreeBSD 9.2

Please refer to http://www.dpdk.org/doc/nics Supported NICs and the following http://www.dpdk.org/doc/guides/index.html DPDK documentation.

Best Regards.

Josue.

[idata]

Hi Josue,

Thanks for reply.

Best regards,

Leo.

[idata]

Hi all,

I have a question again.

why does the performance seems not good?

I mean, port 0/1 are fine.

However, port 2/3 and 4/5, their performance seems bad, maybe 50~60 % only. (MBits/s Rx/Tx)

My 'page cpu' is:

How can I tune the performance ?

Any ideas?

BTW, my OS is ubuntu 14.04

NIC is 82599.

Thanks a lot.

Best regards,

Leo,

[Gabriel_T_Intel]

Hello Leo,

We are working in your case, we will contact you with additional information soon.

Regards,

Gabriel Thomas

[idata]

Hi all,

Update the status.

I changed my number of NICs to 12 ports.

And I found the performance like below:

It looks pretty good !

Is it that achieve the line rate ?

is it possible 'total rate' to achieve 60000/60000 or 59999/59999 ?

Thanks !

Leo,

[Muthurajan_J_Intel]

Great.

That shows the performance you are observing is - it is not CPU bound.

Since it was I/o bound, the more you added, it scaled with I/o.

And with 128 byte packet size you should get what you are looking for.