Re: [dpdk-users] Minimal dpdk configuration for 2 hosts

[Harold Demure <harold.demure87@gmail.com>]

Hello Dawid
  I do not have any snippet of code ready to share and I am not really
familiar with running the test applications (I prefer looking at the code).
However, you can look at the load balancer example and the packet burst
generator (in the test app) from the dpdk package to see how packets are
sent over a udp/ip/ethernet stack and received from the NIC to be
dispatched through software rings.
Hope this helps
  Harold

2016-03-10 15:59 GMT+01:00 dawid_jurek <dawid_jurek@vp.pl>:

> Hello Harold,
> I did investigation and one directional forwarding through 2 hosts
> connected by one port NIC each is possible indeed.
> Testpmd with following command line arguments can do that:
>
> On host1 (as sender):
> ./testpmd -c 0x3 -n4 -- -i --forward-mode=txonly --port-topology=chained
>
> On host2 (as reciever):
> ./testpmd -c 0x3 -n4 -- -i --forward-mode=rxonly --port-topology=chained
>
> Anyway still I don't how to run two directional communication. Harold,
> could you provide commands/command line options for this?
> Also It seems that  2 port NIC on every host is required to run basicfwd,
> rxtx_callbacks and other examples
> (dpdk gives me print that number of ports must be even).
>
> Regards,
> Dawid
>
> W dniu 2016-03-06 10:30:51 użytkownik Harold Demure <
> harold.demure87@gmail.com> napisał:
>
> Hello Dawid,
> I am no expert but a single port should be able to take care of both TX
> and RX queues. For example, I am currently running two hosts with only one
> port each and they are able to both send and receive messages.
> Regards,
> Harold
>
> 2016-03-04 21:47 GMT+01:00 dawid_jurek <dawid_jurek@vp.pl>:
>
> Hello,
> I wonder what is the minimal configuration (in sense on number of NIC
> ports) to run basic dpdk examples like
> basicfwd, rxtx_callbacks or forwarding by testpmd for 2 hosts connected
> directly by Ethernet.
> Is it possible to perform one directional transmission for some kind of
> sender-reciever scenario (2 hosts, every host with one port)?
> It seems that for every kind of transmission between 2 machines I need at
> least 4 ports
> (because every port may take care of TX or RX but not both of them at the
> same time).
> Is it correct?
> Regards,
> Dawid
>
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