On 1/16/2017 12:20 PM, Shirley Avishour wrote: > Hi, > I have an application over dpdk which is consisted of the following threads > each running on a separate core: > 1) rx thread which listens on in a poll mode for traffic > 2) 2 packet processing threads (for load balancing) > 3) kni thread (which also runs on a separate core).
This is kernel thread, right? Is it bind to any specific core? Is it possible that this thread shares the core with 2nd processing thread when enabled? > > the rx thread receives packets and clones them and transmit a copy to the > kni and the other packet is sent to the packet processing unit (hashing > over 2 threads). > the receive traffic rate is 100Mbps. > When working with single packet processing thread I am able to get all the > 100Mbps towards the kni with no drops. > but when I activate my application with 2 packet processing threads I start > facing drops towards the kni. > the way I see it the only difference now is that I have another threads > which handles an mbuf and frees it once processing is completed. > Can anyone assist with this case please? > > Thanks! >
