On 5/23/15, 7:43 PM, "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles at intel.com> wrote:
> > >On 5/23/15, 5:23 PM, "Jakub Mazur" <jakub.mazur103 at gmail.com> wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I've just got to grips with DPDK and started writing my own applications. >>However, I am struggling to figure out how to test my applications in >>terms >>of sending packets to the ports I am polling. >> >>I've got Pktgen-DPDK up and running but I don't know how to use it to >>interact with my own application. > >One possible solution I use and if you have enough ports available to use. >Lets say you need two ports for your application, but you have 4 ports in >your system. I physically loop back the cables to have port 0 connect to >port 2 and port 1 connected to port 3. Now I can give two ports to my >application and two ports to Pktgen. > >Setup if pktgen and your application you have to startup each one a bit >differently to make sure they share the resources like memory and the >ports. I will use two Pktgen running on the same machine, which just means >you have to setup your application as one of the applications. > >In my machine I have 8 10G ports and 72 lcores between 2 sockets. Plus I >have 1024 hugepages per socket for a total of 2048. > >#rkwiles at rkwiles-desk:~/projects/intel/dpdk$ lspci |grep Ether >#06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network >Adapter X520-Q1 (rev 01) >#06:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network >Adapter X520-Q1 (rev 01) >#08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network >Adapter X520-Q1 (rev 01) >#08:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network >Adapter X520-Q1 (rev 01) >#09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network >Connection (rev 01) >#09:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network >Connection (rev 01) >#83:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation DH8900CC Null Device (rev >21) >#87:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network >Adapter X520-Q1 (rev 01) >#87:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network >Adapter X520-Q1 (rev 01) >#89:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network >Adapter X520-Q1 (rev 01) >#89:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network >Adapter X520-Q1 (rev 01) > >./app/app/${target}/pktgen -c ff2 -n 3 --proc-type auto --socket-mem >512,512 --file-prefix pg1 -b 09:00.0 -b 09:00.1 -b 83:00.1 -b 06:00.0 -b >06:00.1 -b 08:00.0 -b 08:00.1 -- -T -P -m "[4:6].0, [5:7].1, [8:10].2, >[9:11].3" -f themes/black-yellow.theme > >./app/app/${target}/pktgen -c ff004 -n 3 --proc-type auto --socket-mem >512,512 --file-prefix pg2 -b 09:00.0 -b 09:00.1 -b 83:00.1 -b 87:00.0 -b >87:00.1 -b 89:00.0 -b 89:00.1 -- -T -P -m "[12:16].0, [13:17].1, >[14:18].2, [15:19].3" -f themes/black-yellow.theme > >Notice I black list the three onboard devices and then black list the >other 4 ports I will not be using for each of the pktgen instances. > >I need 8+1 lcores for each instance for Pktgen use. The -c option of ff2 >and FF004 lcores, the ff value are used for port handling and the 2/4 is >used because pktgen needs the first lcore for display and timers. > >The -m option then assigns lcores to the ports. > >The information from above is taken from two new files pktgen-master.sh >and pktgen-slave.sh, have a look at them and adjust as you need. Pushed a new version of Pktgen 2.9.0 for DPDK 2.1.0 and updated the docs with the above and fixed up some of the old documentation as well. > > > >The other solution is to use two machines with cables connected back to >back, this works if you have a second machine. >> >>Any help would be welcome. >> >>Thanks >