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From: Clarylin L <clearasu@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] multi-segment mbuf
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:58:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKj5MjtjZJuOLSTnycazCjfpO796_Ecf8DXSkSH39ffqRosKXA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOaVG14pOgndrHCWLYBkFnXLQD6CM8K+9ohoNyfP3OXidyGM0g@mail.gmail.com>

Ok...I think you meant there's a bug in the driver code when formatting
multi-segment mbuf.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Stephen Hemminger <
stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:

> Read the source.
>
> A multi-segment mbuf has the first mbuf with nb_segs > 1 and chained by
> next pointer.
> It is a bug in the creator of the mbuf, if number of segments and next
> chain don't
> match.
>
> There is a rte_pktmbuf_dump(), you can use to look at how your mbuf is
> formatted.
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Clarylin L <clearasu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry my bad. The mbuf size has been accidentally changed to 3000.
>>
>> After fixing this by setting mbuf size to 2048, multi-segment mbuf still
>> doesn't work. I was trying to send 2500-byte packets to the target system
>> and was expecting to see two-segment mbuf chain), but got errors on it.
>>
>> Tue Mar 22 14:52:00 2016^@PMD: rte_enic_pmd: packet error
>>
>>
>> Tue Mar 22 14:52:01 2016^@PMD: rte_enic_pmd: packet error
>>
>>
>> Tue Mar 22 14:52:02 2016^@PMD: rte_enic_pmd: packet error
>>
>>
>> Tue Mar 22 14:52:03 2016^@PMD: rte_enic_pmd: packet error
>>
>>
>> Tue Mar 22 14:52:04 2016^@PMD: rte_enic_pmd: packet error
>>
>>
>> Is enic supporting multi-segment mbuf? The dpdk version is 2.0.0. I have
>> enabled jumbo-frame and enable_scatter for the port.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:27 AM, Bruce Richardson <
>> bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:34:50PM -0700, Clarylin L wrote:
>> > > I am trying multi-segment mbuf, but it seems not working.
>> > >
>> > > On my target host, the mbuf size is set to 2048 and I am trying to
>> send
>> > > large packet to it (say 2500 bytes without fragmentation) from another
>> > > host. I enabled both jumbo_frame and enable_scatter for the port. But
>> I
>> > saw
>> > > on the target only one mbuf is received with data_len equal to 2500
>> (it's
>> > > supposed to be a two-mbuf chain).  Although mbuf itself is not
>> working as
>> > > expected, ping between two hosts succeeded (large ping size; no
>> > > fragmentation).
>> > >
>> > > 1. my mbuf size is only 2048. how can it support receiving such large
>> > > packet in one mbuf?
>> > >
>> > > 2.how to make it work as expected (enable multi-segment mbuf and
>> receive
>> > > using mbuf chain when needed)?
>> > >
>> > > Appreciate your help.
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > when you get the single mbuf with data_len == 2500, what is the buf_len
>> > value
>> > reported as?
>> >
>> > /Bruce
>> >
>>
>
>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-22 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-21 23:34 Clarylin L
2016-03-22 10:27 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-03-22 20:36   ` Clarylin L
2016-03-22 22:13     ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-22 22:42       ` Clarylin L
2016-03-22 22:58       ` Clarylin L [this message]

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