From: "Dumitrescu, Cristian" <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
To: "Lukáš Šišmiš" <sismis@cesnet.cz>, "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: RE: Initialize SoftNIC to work with rte_flow rules
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:55:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DS0PR11MB74421FE429D66BF8C0AD9830EBC0A@DS0PR11MB7442.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a266d8f0-1d35-9f4d-aa46-b63fea697a80@cesnet.cz>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lukáš Šišmiš <sismis@cesnet.cz>
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2023 9:36 AM
> To: users@dpdk.org
> Cc: Dumitrescu, Cristian <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
> Subject: Initialize SoftNIC to work with rte_flow rules
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I am trying to setup completely virtual development environment where it
> would be possible to develop applications with rte_flow rules.
>
> For this, I've found SoftNIC as a viable solution as this is supposed to
> be a software NIC that also supports rte_flow rules.
>
> However, I am having a hard time to set it up, I couldn't find good
> examples/documentation for this. Examples/docs found in
> ip_pipeline/pipeline examples are outdated.
>
> I was able to make it run through testpmd but without the support for
> rte_flow.
>
> Could you please help me to create spec/cli file that would support this
> use case?
>
>
> I am currently primarily interested in RX direction although being able
> to work in the TX direction would be greatly appreciated.
>
> The solution I am currently thinking of:
>
> net_pcap0 -> net_softnic0 -> DPDK application + TX( -> net_softnic0 ->
> net_ring/net_null)
>
>
> The RX path can be done - and I was able to run it in testpmd but then
> testpmd complained when I tried to apply rte_flow rules (not
> implemented). Makes sense considering that the softnic default pipeline
> doesn't contain any tables I guess.
>
>
> Thank you all in advance.
>
> I'm CC'ing Cristian as he is the SoftNIC maintainer.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lukas Sismis
>
Hi Lukas,
The Soft NIC driver does not currently have RTE_FLOW support.
For now, you have to use the DPDK pipeline-specific API for populating the
pipeline tables:
1. You can put these commands in the firmware.cli file to be run at
Initialization.
2. You can use the run-time CLI (the best option) by doing "telnet 0.0.0.0 8086"
after the device initialization is complete. In case you're using test-pmd, beware
of the change required, as stated in the default "drivers/net/softnic/firmware.cli"
file.
3. You can call the C API directly in your app.
Regards,
Cristian
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2023-09-22 8:35 Lukáš Šišmiš
2023-09-29 9:55 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian [this message]
2023-09-29 11:21 ` Lukáš Šišmiš
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