The DPDK PMD's are supposed to be non-blocking and poll for packets. Configure PCAP to do this on live interface.
Bugzilla ID: 1526 Reported-by: Ofer Dagan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c index bfec085045..c4e6c93d4a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c @@ -522,6 +522,12 @@ open_iface_live(const char *iface, pcap_t **pcap) { return -1; } + if (pcap_setnonblock(*pcap, 1, errbuf)) { + PMD_LOG(ERR, "Couldn't set non-blocking on %s: %s", iface, errbuf); + pcap_close(*pcap); + return -1; + } + return 0; } -- 2.43.0
