From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36E6D2BA1; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:25:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 Mar 2017 04:25:02 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,231,1484035200"; d="scan'208";a="54956883" Received: from yliu-dev.sh.intel.com (HELO yliu-dev) ([10.239.67.162]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Mar 2017 04:25:01 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 20:23:42 +0800 From: Yuanhan Liu To: mitali Cc: Priyanka , "users@dpdk.org" , "dev@dpdk.org" Message-ID: <20170302122342.GS18844@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> References: <58AAC534.7000004@cse.iitb.ac.in> <20170222084323.GP18844@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> <92b5577b-8c8a-e199-3b65-54323dbea48c@cse.iitb.ac.in> <20170223062714.GX18844@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> <63560385-2261-7213-9e7c-6acef4d290c7@cse.iitb.ac.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <63560385-2261-7213-9e7c-6acef4d290c7@cse.iitb.ac.in> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] [dpdk-dev] seg fault in InterVM communication using virtio X-BeenThere: users@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK usage discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 12:25:03 -0000 On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 07:20:37PM +0530, mitali wrote: > Hi, > > We have some doubt regarding virtio front end. As we are running dpdk > application inside VM with virtio setup, do we need to use virtio specific > functions like virtio_recv_pkts() and virtio_xmit_pkts() to receive and > transmit packets, functions for port initialization like > virtio_dev_queue_setup()? If yes, we are unable to find any application > which uses these functions. Can you provide us some pointers on examples > which uses these functions. If you are running DPDK inside guest (with virtio), then the virtio is yet another PMD, meaning you should program it with the normal DPDK ethdev APIs, something like rte_eth_dev_configure, rte_eth_rx/tx_queue_setup, etc. --yliu > > Thanks, > Mitali > > On Thursday 23 February 2017 11:57 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 02:25:29PM +0530, mitali wrote: > >>Hi Yuanhan, > >> > >>We are using virt-manager to start the VMs. We are attaching the image which > >>shows the vNIC setup for the VMs. > >> > >>We have written our own dpdk application to send and receive UDP packets. The > >>command we are using is > >> > >>./build/app/dpdkapi -c 1 -- -p 1 where dpdkapi is our application. > >> > >>Inside the application we are sending and receiving packets from vNIC using > >>rte_eth_tx_burst() and rte_eth_rx_burst(). > >> > >>At the sender side after 127 packets the application stops and we observe a seg > >>fault in dmesg. Using the print statements we observed that it faults in > >>rte_eth_tx_burst(). All the 127 were received at the receiving VM. > >Would you recompile dpdk with debug info enaled, which could be done by: > > > > make ... EXTRA_CFLAGS='-g3 -O0' > > > >And run it with gdb then dump the call stack? > > > > --yliu