[dpdk-dev] ixgbe packet drops not accounted for

2015-07-23 Thread Zoltan Kiss
Never mind, I've digged a bit more in the sink's driver stats, it turned out there are a lot of RX misses when it receives through the test box. Increasing the RX ring from 512 to 2048 solved the issue. I guess the change in the burst pattern caused this whole issue. Regards, Zoltan On 23/07/

[dpdk-dev] ixgbe packet drops not accounted for

2015-07-23 Thread Zoltan Kiss
Hi, I've seen an odd behaviour in my test setup, which affected my test results, so I set up a much simpler scenario. I'm using netmap pktgen as a packet source, it creates a steady 14.2 Mpps of 64 byte UDP packets over one port of a 82599ES dual port card. This traffic then goes to an another