From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Clarylin L <clearasu@gmail.com>
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 15:13:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOaVG14pOgndrHCWLYBkFnXLQD6CM8K+9ohoNyfP3OXidyGM0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKj5MjuJsgpRrcNLruSmUnC-cnObqycjb=rZ8_jxrjVLC43CGQ@mail.gmail.com>
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
> >
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-22 22:13 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 [this message]
2016-03-22 22:42 ` Clarylin L
2016-03-22 22:58 ` Clarylin L
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