* [dpdk-dev] vtap0 device creation (bug)?
@ 2019-11-08 23:44 Stephen Hemminger
2019-11-11 8:15 ` Tiwei Bie
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From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2019-11-08 23:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maxime Coquelin, Tiwei Bie, Zhihong Wang; +Cc: dev
When I create a virtio-user device with rte_hotplug it creates a kernel device (ie vtap0).
This is normal an the device has ifindex N.
But later when device is configured an started the original vtap0 device is deleted
and a new one is created (with ifindex N+1). This seems like a bug, if nothing
else it unnecessary overhead and link flapping for routing daemons.
Noticed only while tracking down a bug where after vtap was created the
address was being set, but then disappearing.
Is this intentional? Is it documented?
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* Re: [dpdk-dev] vtap0 device creation (bug)?
2019-11-08 23:44 [dpdk-dev] vtap0 device creation (bug)? Stephen Hemminger
@ 2019-11-11 8:15 ` Tiwei Bie
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From: Tiwei Bie @ 2019-11-11 8:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: Maxime Coquelin, Zhihong Wang, dev
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 03:44:07PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> When I create a virtio-user device with rte_hotplug it creates a kernel device (ie vtap0).
> This is normal an the device has ifindex N.
>
> But later when device is configured an started the original vtap0 device is deleted
> and a new one is created (with ifindex N+1). This seems like a bug, if nothing
> else it unnecessary overhead and link flapping for routing daemons.
>
> Noticed only while tracking down a bug where after vtap was created the
> address was being set, but then disappearing.
>
> Is this intentional? Is it documented?
Thanks for catching this.
I think it's caused by the fact that tapfds will be closed
each time when the queue pairs are disabled [1]. We may need
a way to keep tapfds open to fix it.
[1] https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/blob/6bbc5a923625/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/vhost_kernel.c#L333-L338
Thanks,
Tiwei
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