On 1/21/16, 12:15 AM, "dev on behalf of Matthew Hall" <dev-bounces at dpdk.org
on behalf of mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I was trying to just use the default PKT file, test/set_seq.pkt, like so:
>
>sudo "./app/app/${RTE_TARGET}/pktgen" \
>-l 2,3 \
>--master-lcore 2 \
BTW, the lowest core will be the master by default in the -c or -l option, so
setting master-lcore is not required.
>-n 2 \
>-m 1024 \
>-w 0a:00.1 \
>--no-shconf \
>--file-prefix pktgen \
>-- \
>-P \
>-m 2.0 \
>-f test/set_seq.pkt
>
>After pktgen loaded, the port 0 is marked as UP. So I typed "start all"
>and also tried "str". Sadly, so far, it seems like I could not get this
>to actually begin sending any packets. At least, no counters are
>incrementing in the pktgen UI. So I wasn't sure how to make sure it is
>really sending or not.
The problem is you used the same core (2) for the -m option. Core 2 is being
used for the keyboard, timer and screen output. This means you must have the -m
option starting with core 3 as in -m 3.0 and your problem should go away. The
first or master core is consume by Pktgen to handle the previous stuff and you
must start with the next cores for Rx/Tx of packets. I really need to put tests
in the code, which I will try to add soon.
Sorry,
++Keith
>
>The documentation talked about many different commands available, but it
>didn't specifically say how to start transmitting the packets based on
>the content of your *.pkt script file.
>
>I'm just trying to figure out what I messed up so that I can write
>(another) doc patch besides the one I just sent a moment ago.
>
>I was also curious about putting some specific payloads into the packets
>in pktgen. There are many ways of configuring the packet size, but it
>doesn't talk about how and where to set the packet content. This is
>important for my app as its performance will go up and down depending on
>if the L4-L7 data has "interesting" content inside or not.
>
>Sincerely,
>Matthew.
>
Regards,
Keith
