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From: "Loftus, Ciara" <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
To: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>, Bala Sankaran <bsankara@redhat.com>
Cc: "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>,
	"users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>,  "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
	"Stokes, Ian" <ian.stokes@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-users] Traffic doesn't forward on virtual devices
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 08:20:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <74F120C019F4A64C9B78E802F6AD4CC278FC9F12@IRSMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7td0vwffft.fsf@dhcp-25.97.bos.redhat.com>

> 
> Bala Sankaran <bsankara@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Perfect!
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Keith Wiles" <keith.wiles@intel.com>
> >> To: "Bala Sankaran" <bsankara@redhat.com>
> >> Cc: users@dpdk.org, "Aaron Conole" <aconole@redhat.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 11:41:46 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Traffic doesn't forward on virtual devices
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Jul 5, 2018, at 9:53 AM, Bala Sankaran <bsankara@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Greetings,
> >> >
> >> > I am currently using dpdk version 17.11.2. I see that there are a few
> other
> >> > revisions in 17.11.3, followed by the latest stable version of 18.02.2.
> >> >
> >> > Based on the issues I have faced so far (see Original
> >> > Message below), would you suggest that  I go for
> >> > another version? If yes, which one? In essence, my question is, would
> >> > resorting to a different version of dpdk solve my current issue of
> >> > virtqueue id being invalid?
> >> >
> >> > Any help is much appreciated.
> >>
> >> From a support perspective using the latest version 18.05 or the long term
> >> supported version 17.11.3 is easier for most to help. I would pick the
> >> latest release 18.05 myself. As for fixing this problem I do not know. You
> >> can look into the MAINTAINERS file and find the maintainers of area(s)
> and
> >> include them in the CC line on your questions as sometimes they miss the
> >> emails as the volume can be high at times.
> 
> Thanks Keith.
> 
> I took a quick look and it seems like the queues are not setting up
> correctly between OvS and testpmd?  Probably there's a step missing
> somewhere, although nothing in either the netdev-dpdk.c from OvS nor the
> rte_ethdev was obvious to stand out to me.
> 
> I've CC'd Maxime, Ian, and Ciara - maybe they have a better idea to try?

Hi,

I think the appropriate driver to use in this test on the test-pmd side might be virtio-user.
Follow the same steps just change your vdev test-pmd arguments to:
--vdev='net_virtio_user0,path=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/vhu0'

Thanks,
Ciara

> 
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> >> From: "Bala Sankaran" <bsankara@redhat.com>
> >> >> To: users@dpdk.org
> >> >> Cc: "Aaron Conole" <aconole@redhat.com>
> >> >> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:18:13 PM
> >> >> Subject: Traffic doesn't forward on virtual devices
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Hello team,
> >> >>
> >> >> I am working on a project to do PVP tests on dpdk. As a first step, I
> >> >> would
> >> >> like to get traffic flow between tap devices. I'm in process of setting up
> >> >> the architecture, in which I've used testpmd to forward traffic
> between
> >> >> two
> >> >> virtual devices(tap and vhost users) over a bridge.
> >> >>
> >> >> While I'm at it, I've identified that the internal dev_attached flag never
> >> >> gets set to 1 from the rte_eth_vhost.c file. I've tried to manually set it
> >> >> to 1 in the start routine, but I just see that the queue index being
> >> >> referenced is out of range.
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm not sure how to proceed.  Has anyone had luck using testpmd to
> >> >> communicate with vhost-user devices?  If yes, any hints on a
> workaround?
> >> >>
> >> >> Here's how I configured my setup after installing dpdk and
> openvswitch:
> >> >>
> >> >> 1. To start ovs-ctl:
> >> >> /usr/local/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl start
> >> >>
> >> >> 2. Setup hugepages:
> >> >> echo '2048' > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
> >> >>
> >> >> 3. Add a new network namespace:
> >> >> ip netns add ns1
> >> >>
> >> >> 4. Add and set a bridge:
> >> >> ovs-vsctl add-br dpdkbr0 -- set Bridge dpdkbr0 datapath_type=netdev
> >> >> options:vhost-server-path=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/vhu0
> >> >> ovs-vsctl show
> >> >>
> >> >> 5. Add a vhost user to the bridge created:
> >> >> ovs-vsctl add-port dpdkbr0 vhu0 -- set Interface vhu0
> >> >> type=dpdkvhostuserclient
> >> >>
> >> >> 6. Execute bash on the network namespace:
> >> >> ip netns exec ns1 bash
> >> >>
> >> >> 7. Use testpmd and connect the namespaces:
> >> >> testpmd --socket-mem=512
> >> >> --
> vdev='eth_vhost0,iface=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/vhu0,queues=1'
> >> >> --vdev='net_tap0,iface=tap0' --file-prefix page0 -- -i
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> I repeated steps 3 - 7 for another network namespace on the same
> bridge.
> >> >> Following this, in fresh terminals, I assigned IP addresses to the tap
> >> >> devices created and tried pinging them. From port statistics,
> >> >> I identified the above mentioned issue with the dev_attached and
> queue
> >> >> statistics.
> >> >>
> >> >> I would greatly appreciate any help from your end.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks.
> >> >>
> >> >> -------------------------------------------------
> >> >> Bala Sankaran
> >> >> Networking Services Intern
> >> >> Red Hat Inc .,
> >> >>
> >> > -------------------------------------------------
> >> > Bala Sankaran
> >> > Networking Services Intern
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Keith
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > Bala Sankaran
> > Networking Services Intern
> > Red Hat Inc .,

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2018-07-09 18:10       ` Aaron Conole
2018-07-10  8:20         ` Loftus, Ciara [this message]
2018-07-10 17:37           ` Bala Sankaran
2018-07-11  8:12             ` Loftus, Ciara
2018-07-11 14:28               ` Bala Sankaran

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