Hi Shahaf, Thanks for the clarification! Is there a plan for this functionality to be provided (soon)? (or any technical limitation that stands in this way)
Thanks and best regards, Georgios On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com> wrote: > Hi Georgios, > > It is not support on Mellanox PMD to read the primary process counters > from a secondary process. > > > --Shahaf > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of george....@gmail.com > Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2017 3:38 PM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-dev] Port stats zero when using MLX5 DPDK driver > > Hi, > > I have a simple setup with a machine that contains a dual port 10 GbE > Intel 82599ES NIC and another dual port 100 GbE Mellanox ConnectX-4 NIC. > The Intel ports are 0 and 1, while the Mellanox ones are 2 and 3. > > I properly compiled DPDK 16.11 and test-pmd works just fine for all 4 > ports. > Then, I ran a simple primary application that forwards packets from 0 <--> > 1 and 2 <--> 3 and started dpdk-procinfo -- --stats (or --xstats) as a > secondary monitoring process, while sending some traffic to all 4 ports. > The problem I see is that the statistics reported by the Mellanox NICs are > always zero (Intel ports report just fine). > > What is the reason behind this behavior? Is there a bug in the driver > (maybe recently fixed by DPDK 17.02 rc?) or is it simply a lack of this > functionality? > > Thanks and best regards, > > -- > Georgios Katsikas > Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant > Network Systems Lab (NSL) > > > > *E-Mail:* george <george.katsi...@imdea.org>.d...@gmail.com > *Web Site:* http://www.di.uoa.gr/~katsikas/ < > http://people.networks.imdea.org/~george_katsikas/index.html> > -- Georgios Katsikas Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant Network Systems Lab (NSL) *E-Mail:* george <george.katsi...@imdea.org>.d...@gmail.com *Web Site:* http://www.di.uoa.gr/~katsikas/ <http://people.networks.imdea.org/~george_katsikas/index.html>
