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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Nilesh <nileshunhale@cse.iitb.ac.in>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] TX-dropped is high while sending custom packet via testpmd app
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:43:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190716094341.GA572@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a61f6c41-05db-0936-bf6c-90313bb18be5@cse.iitb.ac.in>

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 03:01:12PM +0530, Nilesh wrote:
> Hello,
>     we are trying to send packets from the testpmd to another machine with
> DPDK running.
>     We are building custom packets before sending it on the wire.
>     After running the application the TX-dropped is quite high (can be
> inferred from following logs : )
> 
> 
> $ sudo ./testpmd -c f -w 01:00.1  --   --nb-cores=2
> --eth-peer=0,A4:BF:01:37:23:AB --rxq=1 --txq=1
> 
> 
> Port statistics ====================================
>  ######################## NIC statistics for port 0 ########################
>  RX-packets: 1445150    RX-missed: 0          RX-bytes:  86709064
>  RX-errors: 0
>  RX-nombuf:  0
>  TX-packets: 1602045    TX-errors: 0          TX-bytes:  134571780
> 
>  Throughput (since last show)
>  Rx-pps:            0
>  Tx-pps:            0
>  ############################################################################
> 
>  ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 0 ----------------------
>  RX-packets: 1445160        RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 1445160
>  TX-packets: 1602045        TX-dropped: 694971472     TX-total: 696573517
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  +++++++++++++++ Accumulated forward statistics for all ports+++++++++++++++
>  RX-packets: 1445160        RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 1445160
>  TX-packets: 1602045        TX-dropped: 694971472     TX-total: 696573517
>  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> 
> What could be the reason for such packet drop? What tuning of buffer/queue
> size affects this ?
> 

Those stats for TX-dropped just look wrong to me. Given that you received
only 1.45 million packets, having dropped nearly 700 million doesn't make
sense. Even the Tx packet counts - though more reasonable - are higher than
the received count.

In terms of testpmd settings, the rxq=1 and txq=1 settings are the default
so aren't needed, and setting the number of forwarding cores to 2 shouldn't
do anything as there is only a single receive queue which can't be shared
among cores.

Regards,
/Bruce

      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-16  9:43 UTC|newest]

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2019-07-16  9:31 Nilesh
2019-07-16  9:43 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]

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