https://dpdk.org/tracker/show_bug.cgi?id=29
Bug ID: 29 Summary: pktgen hangs when it tries to send packets through libvirt driver, works for all other drivers Product: DPDK Version: 18.02 Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: CONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: Normal Component: ethdev Assignee: dev@dpdk.org Reporter: gregory.shiman...@intel.com Target Milestone: --- Created attachment 6 --> https://dpdk.org/tracker/attachment.cgi?id=6&action=edit Vagrantfile and scripts to create test VMs This is a bug we encounter in NFF-Go project when we try to use pktgen in two VMs connected directly through internal network. On Qemu/KVM we use UDP tunnel for internal networks connection, on VirtualBox we use VB internal network. I attached Vagrantfile and scripts.sh which we use in our project to setup VMs. You need vagrant version 2.0.x to use this Vagrantfile and a reload plugin for it. Install it with command "vagrant plugin install vagrant-reload". If you connect to internet through a proxy, also install a vagrant-proxyconf plugin with "vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf". To use libvirt provisioner it is also important to install vagrant-libvirt plugin ("vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt") because otherwise VirtualBox is used to create VMs. For libvirt we also use "images" storage pool because default location is often too small to hold all of the VM images. If you don't need it, comment line 37 in Vagrantfile. Otherwise it is necessary to create it with the following commands virsh pool-define-as images dir --target /localdisk/libvirt virsh pool-start images After setting up you can created VMs with command "vagrant up --provider=libvirt". It creates and provisions two VMs, downloads and builds NFF-Go project which also includes DPDK 18.02 and pktgen 3.4.9. If you used VirtualBox it is necessary to manually change type of NICs 2 and 3 from Intel to virtio. When VMs are created, use "vagrant ssh" to access both of them. There is a predefined bash function "bindports" which binds two ports which are connected to each other on these VMs to DPDK igb_uio driver. There is also a function "runpktgen" bash function to start pktgen for ports 0 and 1. When pktgen is started, try to use command "start 0" and "start 1". It starts sending packets but only for a very brief period of time. Quickly it stops sending packets and only restarting the program allows it to send some more packets and hang again. This behavior happens only for virtio driver and pktgen author claims that the cause of the problem is in it https://github.com/pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/issues/148#issuecomment-380972000 If you don't want to deal with vagrant, here are two Qemu command lines that vagrant starts for these two VMs: libvirt+ 28402 1 4 12:44 ? 00:06:03 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=tests_fedora-1,debug-threads=on -S -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-61-tests_fedora-1/master-key.aes -machine pc-i440fx-bionic,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off -cpu Haswell-noTSX,vme=on,ss=on,vmx=on,f16c=on,rdrand=on,hypervisor=on,arat=on,tsc_adjust=on,xsaveopt=on,pdpe1gb=on,abm=on -m 4096 -realtime mlock=off -smp 8,sockets=8,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 9cb78faf-9894-4fef-8833-8416689163cb -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-61-tests_fedora-1/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/localdisk/libvirt/tests_fedora-1.img,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0 -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=33,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=35 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:b8:95:7f,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -netdev socket,udp=127.0.0.1:44403,localaddr=127.0.0.1:44409,id=hostnet1 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet1,id=net1,mac=3c:fd:fe:a4:dd:f0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -netdev socket,udp=127.0.0.1:44404,localaddr=127.0.0.1:44410,id=hostnet2 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet2,id=net2,mac=52:54:00:3b:d5:7d,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:7 -k en-us -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -msg timestamp=on libvirt+ 36753 1 4 12:47 ? 00:05:39 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=tests_fedora-0,debug-threads=on -S -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-62-tests_fedora-0/master-key.aes -machine pc-i440fx-bionic,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off -cpu Haswell-noTSX,vme=on,ss=on,vmx=on,f16c=on,rdrand=on,hypervisor=on,arat=on,tsc_adjust=on,xsaveopt=on,pdpe1gb=on,abm=on -m 4096 -realtime mlock=off -smp 8,sockets=8,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid 1e2c2002-d1e3-4985-a403-254762fbf30d -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-62-tests_fedora-0/monitor.sock,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/localdisk/libvirt/tests_fedora-0.img,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0 -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=30,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=35 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:26:6a:fb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -netdev socket,udp=127.0.0.1:44409,localaddr=127.0.0.1:44403,id=hostnet1 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet1,id=net1,mac=52:54:00:d5:31:ca,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -netdev socket,udp=127.0.0.1:44410,localaddr=127.0.0.1:44404,id=hostnet2 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet2,id=net2,mac=52:54:00:f7:b9:48,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:6 -k en-us -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -msg timestamp=on -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.