DPDK patches and discussions
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
To: Jie Hai <haijie1@huawei.com>,
	Aman Singh <aman.deep.singh@intel.com>,
	Yuying Zhang <yuying.zhang@intel.com>,
	Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>,
	Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, liudongdong3@huawei.com, shiyangx.he@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] app/testpmd: fix primary process not polling all queues
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:05:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dd51e5e-dea2-f883-fcd6-41df51aa022c@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a0a53e2-2566-f13a-96ce-3ec5b839bf81@huawei.com>

On 6/20/2023 11:07 AM, Jie Hai wrote:
> On 2023/6/9 19:10, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 6/9/2023 10:03 AM, Jie Hai wrote:
>>> Here's how the problem arises.
>>> step1: Start the app.
>>>      dpdk-testpmd -a 0000:35:00.0 -l 0-3 -- -i --rxq=10 --txq=10
>>>
>>> step2: Perform the following steps and send traffic. As expected,
>>> queue 7 does not send or receive packets, and other queues do.
>>>      port 0 rxq 7 stop
>>>      port 0 txq 7 stop
>>>      set fwd mac
>>>      start
>>>
>>> step3: Perform the following steps and send traffic. All queues
>>> are expected to send and receive packets normally, but that's not
>>> the case for queue 7.
>>>      stop
>>>      port stop all
>>>      port start all
>>>      start
>>>      show port xstats all
>>>
>>> In fact, only the value of rx_q7_packets for queue 7 is not zero,
>>> which means queue 7 is enabled for the driver but is not involved
>>> in packet receiving and forwarding by software. If we check queue
>>> state by command 'show rxq info 0 7' and 'show txq info 0 7',
>>> we see queue 7 is started as other queues are.
>>>      Rx queue state: started
>>>      Tx queue state: started
>>> The queue 7 is started but cannot forward. That's the problem.
>>>
>>> We know that each stream has a read-only "disabled" field that
>>> control if this stream should be used to forward. This field
>>> depends on testpmd local queue state, please see
>>> commit 3c4426db54fc ("app/testpmd: do not poll stopped queues").
>>> DPDK framework maintains ethdev queue state that drivers reported,
>>> which indicates the real state of queues.
>>>
>>> There are commands that update these two kind queue state such as
>>> 'port X rxq|txq start|stop'. But these operations take effect only
>>> in one stop-start round. In the following stop-start round, the
>>> preceding operations do not take effect anymore. However, only
>>> the ethdev queue state is updated, causing the testpmd and ethdev
>>> state information to diverge and causing unexpected side effects
>>> as above problem.
>>>
>>> There was a similar problem for the secondary process, please see
>>> commit 5028f207a4fa ("app/testpmd: fix secondary process packet
>>> forwarding").
>>>
>>> This patch applies its workaround with some difference to the
>>> primary process. Not all PMDs implement rte_eth_rx_queue_info_get and
>>> rte_eth_tx_queue_info_get, however they may support deferred_start
>>> with primary process. To not break their behavior, retain the original
>>> testpmd local queue state for those PMDs.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 3c4426db54fc ("app/testpmd: do not poll stopped queues")
>>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jie Hai <haijie1@huawei.com>
>>>
>>
>> Patch looks good to me, but since it has potential side effects,
>>
>> Can some from test team verify following before continue:
>> a) Secondary testpmd
>> b) Deferred Queue
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ferruh
>>
>>
> Hi Ferruh,
> 
> I tested them with hns3 driver. The results are the same before and
> after the patch is applied. The results are as follows:
> 
> case1: Secondary testpmd
>     Action: Secondary testpmd stop a queue and primary testpmd start the
> queue.
>     Result: The queue can forward for both process.
> 
> case2:
>     Action: Set a queue with deferred_start on for a primary process.
>     Result: The queue cannot forward until deferred_start is off.
> 

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-20 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-06  9:26 [PATCH] app/test-pmd: fix not polling all queues without defered starting Jie Hai
2023-05-08  3:10 ` [PATCH v2] app/test-pmd: fix not polling all queues without deferred starting Jie Hai
2023-05-29  2:26   ` [PATCH v3] " Jie Hai
2023-06-06 14:45     ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-06-07  7:04       ` Jie Hai
2023-06-07 17:38         ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-06-07 18:12     ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-06-09  8:54       ` Jie Hai
2023-06-09  9:03     ` [PATCH v4] app/testpmd: fix primary process not polling all queues Jie Hai
2023-06-09 11:10       ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-06-20 10:07         ` Jie Hai
2023-06-20 10:57           ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-06-20 17:05           ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2023-06-22 16:40       ` Ali Alnubani
2023-06-26  9:30         ` Jie Hai
2023-06-27 11:05           ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-07-03 13:40             ` Ali Alnubani

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=7dd51e5e-dea2-f883-fcd6-41df51aa022c@amd.com \
    --to=ferruh.yigit@amd.com \
    --cc=aman.deep.singh@intel.com \
    --cc=anatoly.burakov@intel.com \
    --cc=dev@dpdk.org \
    --cc=dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com \
    --cc=haijie1@huawei.com \
    --cc=liudongdong3@huawei.com \
    --cc=matan@nvidia.com \
    --cc=shiyangx.he@intel.com \
    --cc=yuying.zhang@intel.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).