On 11/3/2021 9:31 AM, Tudor Cornea wrote:
The poll call can return POLLERR which is ignored, or it can return
POLLOUT, even if there are no free frames in the mmap-ed area.

We can account for both of these cases by re-checking if the next
frame is empty before writing into it.

We have attempted to reproduce this issue with pktgen-dpdk, using the
following configuration.

pktgen -l 1-4 -n 4 --proc-type=primary --no-pci --no-telemetry \
     --no-huge -m 512 \
     --vdev=net_af_packet0,iface=eth1,blocksz=16384,framesz=8192, \
     framecnt=2048,qpairs=1,qdisc_bypass=0 \
     -- \
     -P \
     -T \
     -m "3.0" \
     -f themes/black-yellow.theme

We configure a low tx rate (~ 335 packets / second) and a small
packet size, of about 300 bytes from the pktgen CLI.

set 0 size 300
set 0 rate 0.008
set 0 burst 1
start 0

After bringing the interface down, and up again, we seem to arrive
in a state in which the tx rate is inconsistent, and does not recover.

ifconfig eth1 down; sleep 7; ifconfig eth1 up

[1] http://code.dpdk.org/pktgen-dpdk/pktgen-20.11.2/source/INSTALL.md

Signed-off-by: Mihai Pogonaru <pogonarumi...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tudor Cornea <tudor.cor...@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>

Used comment from v3, only POLLERR related part kept as in this patch.

    Fixes: 364e08f2bbc0 ("af_packet: add PMD for AF_PACKET-based virtual 
devices")
    Cc: sta...@dpdk.org

Applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.

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