[dpdk-dev] Profiling tools for DPDK applications running on VM inside ESXi server

2014-02-28 Thread Selvaganapathy Chidambaram
Hi Dan, When we tried, perf did not work in ESX, it only works in KVM. oprofile works in timer mode in ESX. Thanks, Selvaganapathy.C. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Daniel Kan wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering which profilers are best for profiling DPDK applications > running on VM: perf, oprofi

[dpdk-dev] Selecting Linux distribution for DPDK applications: CentOS or Debian

2014-01-30 Thread Selvaganapathy Chidambaram
Hi Daniel, virtio-net-pmd (dpdk-1.5) works on CentOS 6.x . Just verified basic packet flow with one queue. Thanks, Selvaganapathy.C. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Kan wrote: > Thanks for the all the feedbacks. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has 3.8.x kernel and > Fedcore 18 has 3.10.x kernel. Bo

[dpdk-dev] Issue in virtio pmd available in dpdk 1.5 -

2014-01-20 Thread Selvaganapathy Chidambaram
Thanks Huawei. Hi Sambath, As Huawei mentioned, debugging pci_uio_map_resource helped. Setting CONFIG_RTE_EAL_UNBIND_PORTS=y fixed the issue for me. Hope it helps. Thanks, Selvaganapathy.C. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Xie, Huawei wrote: > Hi: > Could you give the node information for

[dpdk-dev] Issue in virtio pmd available in dpdk 1.5 - virtqueue does not exist

2014-01-10 Thread Selvaganapathy Chidambaram
Hi, I am using dpdk 1.5 where virtio pmd is available in dpdk-1.5.1r2/lib/librte_pmd_virtio/. When I run l2fwd reference application, I am getting the following error: EAL: PCI device :00:08.0 on NUMA socket -1 EAL: probe driver: 1af4:1000 rte_virtio_pmd EAL: PCI device :00:09.0 on NUM

[dpdk-dev] vmxnet3-usermap multi-process support clarification

2013-10-09 Thread Selvaganapathy Chidambaram
Hi , I tried to run vmxnet3-usermap driver something similar to multi-process symmetric reference application. The secondary process crashed in queue_rx_complete. When I closed primary process, I saw a kernel crash in vmxnet3_shm_chardev_release. I debugged it, but looks like vmxnet3-usermap do n

[dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine

2013-10-04 Thread Selvaganapathy Chidambaram
, Rashmin N wrote: > Correction: "you would NOT get optimal performance benefit having PMD" > > Thanks, > Rashmin > -Original Message- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Patel, Rashmin N > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 10:47 AM > T

[dpdk-dev] L2fwd Performance issue with Virtual Machine

2013-10-03 Thread Selvaganapathy Chidambaram
Hello Everyone, I have tried to run DPDK sample application l2fwd(modified to support multiple queues) in my ESX Virtual Machine. I see that performance is not scaling with cores. [My apologies for the long email] *Setup:* Connected VM to two ports of Spirent with 10Gig link. Sent 10 Gig traffic