> On 31 Oct 2017, at 08:42, Amir Kaduri <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alfredo,
> 
> I'm trying to debug the issue, and I have a question about the code, to make 
> sure that there is no problem there:
> Specifically, I'm referring to the function "pfring_mod_recv":
> In order that the line that refers to poll_duration ("pfring_poll(ring, 
> ring->poll_duration)") will be reached, there are 2 conditions that should 
> occur:
> 1. pfring_there_is_pkt_available(ring) should return false (otherwise, the 
> function returns at the end of the condition).
> 2. wait_for_incoming_packet should be set to true.
> Currently, I'm referring to the first one:
> In order that the macro pfring_there_is_pkt_available(ring) will return 
> false, ring->slots_info->tot_insert should be equal to 
> ring->slots_info->tot_read.
> What I see in my tests that they don't get equal. I always see that 
> tot_insert>tot_read, and sometimes they get eual when tot_read++ is called 
> but it happens inside the condition, so the "pfring_mod_recv" returns with 1.

It seems to be correct. The kernel module inserts packets into the ring 
increasing tot_insert, the userspace library reads packets from the ring 
increasing tot_read. This means that if tot_insert == tot_read there is no 
packet to read. If there is a bug, it should be in the kernel module that is 
somehow not adding packets to the ring (thus not updating tot_insert).

Alfredo

> I remind that I set the watermark to be high, in order to see the 
> poll_duration takes effect.
> 
> Could you please approve that you don't see any problem in the code?
> 
> Thanks,
> Amir
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Amir
> yes, that’s the way it should work, if this is not the case, some debugging 
> is needed to identify the problem
> 
> Alfredo
> 
>> On 26 Oct 2017, at 10:14, Amir Kaduri <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Basically, the functionality that I would like to have is even if less than 
>> poll-watermark-threshold (default: 128) packets arrives the socket, they 
>> will be forwarded to userland if 1 millisecond has passed.
>> How can I gain this? Isn't it by using  pfring_set_poll_duration()?
>> 
>> Alfredo, could you please clarify?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Amir
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Amir Kaduri <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm using pf_ring 6.6.0 (no ZC) on CentOS 7, on 10G interfaces (ixgbe 
>> drivers).
>> As far as I understand the relation between poll-watermark and 
>> poll-duration, packets will be queued untill one of comes first: or passing 
>> the poll-watermark packets threshold, or a poll-duration milliseconds has 
>> passed.
>> I set poll-watermark to the maximum (4096) (using 
>> pfring_set_poll_watermark()) and set poll-duration to the minimum (1) (using 
>> pfring_set_poll_duration()).
>> I've sent 400 packets to the socket. I see that they are received by the 
>> NIC, but they didn't pass to userland. Only when passing 500 packets, a 
>> chunk of them passed to userland.
>> I don't quite understand the behavior: since poll-duration is 1 (millisecond 
>> I assume), I've expected all the packets to pass to userland immediately, 
>> even though poll-watermark is much higher.
>> 
>> Can anyone shed some light on the above?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Amir
>> 
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