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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Clarylin L <clearasu@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Unable to get multi-segment mbuf working for ixgbe
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:24:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160329092429.GB17800@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKj5MjtR0qD3r3bG6JUbzO0SNSu4_4o+g1wwmN--KzjTdhYvjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:05:40AM -0700, Clarylin L wrote:
> Any pointers to what the issue could be? thanks
> 
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Clarylin L <clearasu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to use multi-segment mbuf to receive large packet. I enabled
> > jumbo_frame and enable_scatter for the port and was expecting mbuf chaining
> > would be used to receive packets larger than the mbuf size (which was set
> > to 2048).
> >
> > When sending 3000-byte (without fragmentation) packet from another
> > non-dpdk host, I didn't see packet was received by the ixgbe PMD driver.
> >
> > After a quick debugging session I found that the following statement in ixgbe_recv_scattered_pkts
> > (ixgbe_rxtx.c) is
> > always true and break the loop in case of large packet, while it's not the
> > case for small packet (smaller than mbuf size):
> >
> > if (! staterr & rte_cpu_to_le32(IXGBE_RXDADV_STAT_DD))
> >     break;
> >
> > Is enabling jumbo_frame and enable_scatter good enough to get started the
> > mbuf chaining?

What did you configure for the max MTU for jumbo frames? What do the port stats
and extended stats (xstats) report. Is there an error counter there that is
incrementing that could give a hint as to what the problem is.

/Bruce

> >
> > Appreciate any input! Thanks.
> >

      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-29  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-25 23:13 Clarylin L
2016-03-28 17:05 ` Clarylin L
2016-03-29  9:24   ` Bruce Richardson [this message]

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