Re: [dpdk-users] Problems running test-pipeline.

["Arto Sänkiaho" <artosank@gmail.com>]

Thank you.

This fixed the problem.

It really looks like it takes a moment before the port comes up and this
caused app_ports_check_link to fail.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Vijay S <vsnv83@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was able to fix this issue in test-pipeline by adding a 1 sec sleep
> before calling app_ports_check_link in the function app_init_ports().  The
> eth ports require some time to come up after rte_eth_dev_start..
>
> Thnx,
> Vijay
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Arto Sänkiaho <artosank@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>
>> The port(s) are physically connected, that is not an issue here.
>>
>> I have 2 nics and they are connected to each other and when i run testpmd
>> or l2fwd or l3fwd applications, they work flawlessly.
>>
>> Pktgen also works without issues and i can generate traffic between the
>> ports.
>>
>> The problem appears when i try to run testpipeline, it always prints out
>> that "Some NIC ports are DOWN" and exits.
>>
>> Here is an output when i try to run it with links 0 and 1.
>>
>> $ sudo ./testpipeline -l 1,2,3 -- -p 0x03
>> EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
>> EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 0 on socket 0
>> EAL: Detected lcore 2 as core 1 on socket 0
>> EAL: Detected lcore 3 as core 1 on socket 0
>> EAL: Detected lcore 4 as core 2 on socket 0
>> EAL: Detected lcore 5 as core 2 on socket 0
>> EAL: Detected lcore 6 as core 3 on socket 0
>> EAL: Detected lcore 7 as core 3 on socket 0
>> EAL: Support maximum 128 logical core(s) by configuration.
>> EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
>> EAL: VFIO modules not all loaded, skip VFIO support...
>> EAL: Setting up physically contiguous memory...
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcda6200000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0xc00000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcda5400000 (size = 0xc00000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x32800000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcd72a00000 (size = 0x32800000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x19400000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcd59400000 (size = 0x19400000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcd58e00000 (size = 0x400000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x600000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcd58600000 (size = 0x600000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x69400000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fccef000000 (size = 0x69400000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1c00000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcced200000 (size = 0x1c00000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x6c00000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcce6400000 (size = 0x6c00000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x600000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcce5c00000 (size = 0x600000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcce5800000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcce5400000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x5400000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fccdfe00000 (size = 0x5400000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x70600000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcc6f600000 (size = 0x70600000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcc6f200000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcc6ec00000 (size = 0x400000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x8e600000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbe0400000 (size = 0x8e600000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbe0000000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdfc00000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x800000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdf200000 (size = 0x800000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdee00000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbde800000 (size = 0x400000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbde400000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdde00000 (size = 0x400000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdda00000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdd600000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdd000000 (size = 0x400000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x400000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdca00000 (size = 0x400000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdc600000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdc200000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcbdbe00000 (size = 0x200000)
>> EAL: Requesting 3637 pages of size 2MB from socket 0
>> EAL: TSC frequency is ~1795854 KHz
>> EAL: Master lcore 1 is ready (tid=a8e13940;cpuset=[1])
>> EAL: lcore 2 is ready (tid=a7715700;cpuset=[2])
>> EAL: lcore 3 is ready (tid=a6f14700;cpuset=[3])
>> EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
>> EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcda6400000
>> EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcda6500000
>> PMD: eth_igb_dev_init(): port_id 0 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x1533
>> EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
>> EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcda6504000
>> EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcda6604000
>> PMD: eth_igb_dev_init(): port_id 1 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x1533
>> USER1: Creating the mbuf pool ...
>> USER1: Initializing NIC port 0 ...
>> PMD: eth_igb_rx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7fcbdcaa7d40
>> hw_ring=0x7fcbdcaa8180 dma_addr=0x2098a8180
>> PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): To improve 1G driver performance, consider
>> setting the TX WTHRESH value to 4, 8, or 16.
>> PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7fcbdca95bc0
>> hw_ring=0x7fcbdca97c00 dma_addr=0x209897c00
>> PMD: eth_igb_start(): <<
>> USER1: Initializing NIC port 1 ...
>> PMD: eth_igb_rx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7fcbdca85540
>> hw_ring=0x7fcbdca85980 dma_addr=0x209885980
>> PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): To improve 1G driver performance, consider
>> setting the TX WTHRESH value to 4, 8, or 16.
>> PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7fcbdca733c0
>> hw_ring=0x7fcbdca75400 dma_addr=0x209875400
>> PMD: eth_igb_start(): <<
>> Port: 0
>> USER1: Port 0 (0 Gbps) DOWN
>> Port: 1
>> USER1: Port 1 (0 Gbps) DOWN
>> PANIC in app_ports_check_link():
>> Some NIC ports are DOWN
>> 6: [./testpipeline() [0x42b7b3]]
>> 5: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)
>> [0x7fcda7f38ec5]]
>> 4: [./testpipeline(main+0x34) [0x42a2f4]]
>> 3: [./testpipeline(app_init+0x34e) [0x42c0be]]
>> 2: [./testpipeline(__rte_panic+0xc9) [0x424d9e]]
>> 1: [./testpipeline(rte_dump_stack+0x1a) [0x492baa]]
>>
>> Any ideas what's the problem here ? Is there some step i must do before
>> running the testpipeline ?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Zhang, Roy Fan <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Thank you for using DPDK.
>> >
>> > testpipeline mainly passes the received packets to different tables
>> inside
>> > pipeline, and, if the pipeline works correctly, forwards the packets
>> back
>> > to output ports.
>> >
>> > To use testpipeline, you may have to have Ethernet packets sending to
>> the
>> > correct port(s) continuously.
>> > And the only way to check if the pipeline correctly is to monitor the
>> port
>> > output seeing if the pipeline has forwarded the packets back. There is
>> no
>> > interactive commands for testpipeline.
>> >
>> > Please check if your port is physically connected. To avail the purpose
>> of
>> > testpipeline, please connect your server running the program with the
>> with
>> > device capable of generating and monitoring packet flows, like a packet
>> > generator.
>> > If the answer is yes, please bond different ports to dpdk and run the
>> > program again.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Fan
>> >
>> > > Hello, i am new with DPDK and i am trying to run the test-pipeline
>> > program.
>> > >
>> > > Here is the output when i run it:
>> > >
>> > > ./testpipeline -c 0x07 -- -p 0x01
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 0 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 2 as core 1 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 3 as core 1 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 4 as core 2 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 5 as core 2 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 6 as core 3 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 7 as core 3 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Support maximum 128 logical core(s) by configuration.
>> > > EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
>> > > EAL: VFIO modules not all loaded, skip VFIO support...
>> > > EAL: Setting up physically contiguous memory...
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x7000000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6689400000 (size = 0x7000000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1c00000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6687600000 (size = 0x1c00000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x4000000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6683400000 (size = 0x4000000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1800000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6681a00000 (size = 0x1800000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f6681600000 (size = 0x200000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x11800000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f666fc00000 (size = 0x11800000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7f666f800000 (size = 0x200000)
>> > > EAL: Requesting 256 pages of size 2MB from socket 0
>> > > EAL: TSC frequency is ~1795851 KHz
>> > > EAL: Master lcore 0 is ready (tid=91f13940;cpuset=[0])
>> > > EAL: lcore 1 is ready (tid=6f7ff700;cpuset=[1])
>> > > EAL: lcore 2 is ready (tid=6effe700;cpuset=[2])
>> > > EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> > > EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
>> > > EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7f6690400000
>> > > EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7f6690500000
>> > > PMD: eth_igb_dev_init(): port_id 0 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x1533
>> > > EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> > > EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
>> > > EAL:   Not managed by a supported kernel driver, skipped
>> > > USER1: Creating the mbuf pool ...
>> > > USER1: Initializing NIC port 0 ...
>> > > PMD: eth_igb_rx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7f666f936dc0
>> > > hw_ring=0x7f666f937200 dma_addr=0x208337200
>> > > PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): To improve 1G driver performance,
>> > consider setting the TX WTHRESH value to 4, 8, or 16.
>> > > PMD: eth_igb_tx_queue_setup(): sw_ring=0x7f666f924c40
>> > > hw_ring=0x7f666f926c80 dma_addr=0x208326c80
>> > > PMD: eth_igb_start(): <<
>> > > USER1: Port 0 (0 Gbps) DOWN
>> > > PANIC in app_ports_check_link():
>> > > Some NIC ports are DOWN
>> > > 6: [./testpipeline() [0x42b7b3]]
>> > > 5: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)
>> > > [0x7f6691038ec5]]
>> > > 4: [./testpipeline(main+0x34) [0x42a2f4]]
>> > > 3: [./testpipeline(app_init+0x336) [0x42c0a6]]
>> > > 2: [./testpipeline(__rte_panic+0xc9) [0x424d9e]]
>> > > 1: [./testpipeline(rte_dump_stack+0x1a) [0x492b8a] $
>> > >
>> > > Here is the nic bind info
>> > >
>> > > $ dpdk_nic_bind -s
>> > >
>> > > Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
>> > ============================================
>> > > 0000:01:00.0 'I210 Gigabit Network Connection' drv=igb_uio unused=
>> > >
>> > > Network devices using kernel driver
>> > > ===================================
>> > > 0000:00:19.0 'Ethernet Connection I218-LM' if=eth2 drv=e1000e
>> > unused=igb_uio *Active*
>> > > 0000:02:00.0 'I210 Gigabit Network Connection' if=eth0 drv=igb
>> > unused=igb_uio
>> > >
>> > > Other network devices
>> > > =====================
>> > > <none>
>> > >
>> > > Changing port mask to 0x04 or any other value gives following error:
>> > >
>> > > ./testpipeline -c 0x07 -- -p 0x04
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 1 as core 0 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 2 as core 1 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 3 as core 1 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 4 as core 2 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 5 as core 2 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 6 as core 3 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Detected lcore 7 as core 3 on socket 0
>> > > EAL: Support maximum 128 logical core(s) by configuration.
>> > > EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
>> > > EAL: VFIO modules not all loaded, skip VFIO support...
>> > > EAL: Setting up physically contiguous memory...
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x7000000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fceeb000000 (size = 0x7000000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1c00000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcee9200000 (size = 0x1c00000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x4000000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcee5000000 (size = 0x4000000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x1800000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcee3600000 (size = 0x1800000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fcee3200000 (size = 0x200000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x11800000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fced1800000 (size = 0x11800000)
>> > > EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x200000 bytes
>> > > EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7fced1400000 (size = 0x200000)
>> > > EAL: Requesting 256 pages of size 2MB from socket 0
>> > > EAL: TSC frequency is ~1795851 KHz
>> > > EAL: Master lcore 0 is ready (tid=f3c37940;cpuset=[0])
>> > > EAL: lcore 1 is ready (tid=d13ff700;cpuset=[1])
>> > > EAL: lcore 2 is ready (tid=d0bfe700;cpuset=[2])
>> > > EAL: PCI device 0000:01:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> > > EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
>> > > EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcef2000000
>> > > EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7fcef2100000
>> > > PMD: eth_igb_dev_init(): port_id 0 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x1533
>> > > EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> > > EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 rte_igb_pmd
>> > > EAL:   Not managed by a supported kernel driver, skipped
>> > > USER1: Creating the mbuf pool ...
>> > > USER1: Initializing NIC port 2 ...
>> > > PANIC in app_init_ports():
>> > > Cannot init NIC port 2 (-22)
>> > > 6: [./testpipeline() [0x42b7b3]]
>> > > 5: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)
>> > > [0x7fcef2d5cec5]]
>> > > 4: [./testpipeline(main+0x34) [0x42a2f4]]
>> > > 3: [./testpipeline(app_init+0x3a2) [0x42c112]]
>> > > 2: [./testpipeline(__rte_panic+0xc9) [0x424d9e]]
>> > > 1: [./testpipeline(rte_dump_stack+0x1a) [0x492b8a]]
>> > >
>> > > What i'm doing wrong here ?
>> > >
>> > > There is probably some configuration step missing or misconfiguration
>> > but i could not figure out what it is.
>> > >
>> > > Thank you in advance.
>> >
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