Re: [dpdk-users] Traffic doesn't forward on virtual devices

[Aaron Conole <aconole@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?

>> > 
>> > 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 .,