All, below is the validation of the submitted patch - I used the default rx free thresh (0) and 64 & it now works for both cases.
Thank you! Bryan Benson -- Validation -- [bmbenson]~/1.3.1.1/DPDK% sudo ./x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0xFF00FF00 -n 4 -b 0000:06:00.0 -- --portmask=0x3 --nb-cores=2 --enable-rx-cksum --disable-hw-vlan --disable-rss --crc-strip --rxd=1024 --txd=1024 -i ... <Text Removed> ... testpmd> set fwd csum Set csum packet forwarding mode testpmd> start csum packet forwarding - CRC stripping enabled - packets/burst=16 nb forwarding cores=2 - nb forwarding ports=2 RX queues=1 - RX desc=1024 - RX free threshold=0 RX threshold registers: pthresh=8 hthresh=8 wthresh=4 TX queues=1 - TX desc=1024 - TX free threshold=0 TX threshold registers: pthresh=36 hthresh=0 wthresh=0 TX RS bit threshold=0 - TXQ flags=0x0 testpmd> stop Telling cores to stop... Waiting for lcores to finish... ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 0 ---------------------- RX-packets: 505103 RX-dropped: 0 RX-total: 505103 Bad-ipcsum: 505088 Bad-l4csum: 0 TX-packets: 508688 TX-dropped: 0 TX-total: 508688 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 1 ---------------------- RX-packets: 508944 RX-dropped: 0 RX-total: 508944 Bad-ipcsum: 0 Bad-l4csum: 508672 TX-packets: 505103 TX-dropped: 0 TX-total: 505103 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++++++ Accumulated forward statistics for all ports+++++++++++++++ RX-packets: 1014047 RX-dropped: 0 RX-total: 1014047 TX-packets: 1013791 TX-dropped: 0 TX-total: 1013791 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Done. testpmd> quit [bmbenson]~/1.3.1.1/DPDK% sudo ./x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0xFF00FF00 -n 4 -b 0000:06:00.0 -- --portmask=0x3 --nb-cores=2 --enable-rx-cksum --disable-hw-vlan --disable-rss --crc-strip --rxd=1024 --txd=1024 --rxfreet=64 -i ... <Text Removed> ... testpmd> set fwd csum Set csum packet forwarding mode testpmd> start csum packet forwarding - CRC stripping enabled - packets/burst=16 nb forwarding cores=2 - nb forwarding ports=2 RX queues=1 - RX desc=1024 - RX free threshold=64 RX threshold registers: pthresh=8 hthresh=8 wthresh=4 TX queues=1 - TX desc=1024 - TX free threshold=0 TX threshold registers: pthresh=36 hthresh=0 wthresh=0 TX RS bit threshold=0 - TXQ flags=0x0 testpmd> stop Telling cores to stop... Waiting for lcores to finish... ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 0 ---------------------- RX-packets: 314382 RX-dropped: 0 RX-total: 314382 Bad-ipcsum: 314368 Bad-l4csum: 0 TX-packets: 317453 TX-dropped: 0 TX-total: 317453 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 1 ---------------------- RX-packets: 317492 RX-dropped: 0 RX-total: 317492 Bad-ipcsum: 0 Bad-l4csum: 317440 TX-packets: 314382 TX-dropped: 0 TX-total: 314382 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++++++ Accumulated forward statistics for all ports+++++++++++++++ RX-packets: 631874 RX-dropped: 0 RX-total: 631874 TX-packets: 631835 TX-dropped: 0 TX-total: 631835 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________________ From: Thomas Monjalon [thomas.monja...@6wind.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 3:44 AM To: Benson, Bryan Cc: dev at dpdk.org; LiuFeng Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RX checksum offloading 07/11/2013 10:06, Thomas Monjalon : > 07/11/2013 04:44, Benson, Bryan : > > RX queues=1 - RX desc=1024 - RX free threshold=16 > > > > ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 0 > > > > RX-total: 543761 Bad-ipcsum: 543558 Bad-l4csum: 0 > > > > ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 1 > > > > RX-total: 542226 Bad-ipcsum: 0 Bad-l4csum: 542005 > > > > RX queues=1 - RX desc=1024 - RX free threshold=32 > > > > ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 0 > > > > RX-total: 378894 Bad-ipcsum: 0 Bad-l4csum: 0 > > > > ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 1 > > > > RX-total: 381197 Bad-ipcsum: 0 Bad-l4csum: 0 > > Excellent report, thank you ! > > We need to fix it now :) LiuFeng had seen this issue with additonal comments: http://www.dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-September/000529.html -- Thomas