This work is to make DPDK ports more visible and to enable using common Linux tools to configure DPDK ports.
Patch is based on KNI but contains only control functionality of it, also this patch does not include any Linux kernel network driver as part of it. Basically with the help of a kernel module (KCP), virtual Linux network interfaces named as "dpdk$" are created per DPDK port, control messages sent to these virtual interfaces are forwarded to DPDK, and response sent back to Linux application. Virtual interfaces created when DPDK application started and destroyed automatically when DPDK application terminated. Communication between kernel-space and DPDK done using netlink socket. Currently implementation is not complete, sample support added for the RFC, more functionality can be added based on community response. With this RFC Patch, supported: get/set mac address/mtu of DPDK devices, getting stats from DPDK devices and some set of ethtool commands. Samples: $ ifconfig dpdk0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 90:e2:ba:0e:49:b8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 33 bytes 2058 (2.0 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 33 bytes 2058 (2.0 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 dpdk1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:1b:21:76:fa:21 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 After some traffic on port 0: $ ifconfig dpdk0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 90:e2:ba:0e:49:77 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 962 bytes 57798 (56.4 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 962 bytes 57798 (56.4 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 $ ethtool -i dpdk0 driver: rte_ixgbe_pmd version: RTE 2.3.0-rc0 firmware-version: expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:08:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: no supports-eeprom-access: yes supports-register-dump: yes supports-priv-flags: no $ ip l show dpdk0 25: dpdk0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 90:e2:ba:0e:49:b8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff $ ip l set dpdk0 addr 90:e2:ba:0e:49:77 $ ip l show dpdk0 25: dpdk0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 90:e2:ba:0e:49:77 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Ferruh Yigit (3): rte_ctrl_if: add control interface library kcp: add kernel control path kernel module examples/ethtool: add control interface support to the application config/common_linuxapp | 9 +- examples/ethtool/ethtool-app/main.c | 8 +- lib/Makefile | 3 +- lib/librte_ctrl_if/Makefile | 58 +++++ lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_ctrl_if.c | 166 ++++++++++++++ lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_ctrl_if.h | 54 +++++ lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_ctrl_if_version.map | 9 + lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_ethtool.c | 354 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_ethtool.h | 64 ++++++ lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_nl.c | 263 +++++++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_nl.h | 60 +++++ lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_log.h | 3 +- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/Makefile | 5 +- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/Makefile | 58 +++++ lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/kcp_dev.h | 81 +++++++ lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/kcp_ethtool.c | 261 +++++++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/kcp_misc.c | 282 +++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/kcp_net.c | 209 +++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/kcp_nl.c | 194 ++++++++++++++++ mk/rte.app.mk | 3 +- 20 files changed, 2138 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) create mode 100644 lib/librte_ctrl_if/Makefile create mode 100644 lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_ctrl_if.c create mode 100644 lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_ctrl_if.h create mode 100644 lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_ctrl_if_version.map create mode 100644 lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_ethtool.c create mode 100644 lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_ethtool.h create mode 100644 lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_nl.c create mode 100644 lib/librte_ctrl_if/rte_nl.h create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/Makefile create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/kcp_dev.h create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/kcp_ethtool.c create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/kcp_misc.c create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/kcp_net.c create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kcp/kcp_nl.c -- 2.5.0