[dpdk-dev] Very low performance with l2fwd in a VM with PCI Passthrough

2014-03-07 Thread Surya Nimmagadda
Hi, I am seeing very low throughput when I run l2fwd in a VM. When I send 1g data, I could see only about 10mbps of traffic being received by the VM. I dont see this problem when running l2fwd on the host. I could get 10gbps traffic in and out of both the ports. My setup details are - Traf

[dpdk-dev] Which vmxnet3 pmd is to be used in dpdk 1.6.x?

2014-03-07 Thread Srinivasan J
Prashant, Are you still hitting a crash? Do you have hugetlbfs enabled? if not try adding enabling hugetlbfs. I was able to get vxnet3 up using the vmxnet3 pmd alone in DPDK 1.60r1. I did not use the vmxnet3-usermap kernel driver. I am using Esxi 5.5 Eg: echo 1024 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hu

[dpdk-dev] Which vmxnet3 pmd is to be used in dpdk 1.6.x?

2014-03-07 Thread Prashant Upadhyaya
Hi Srini, Yes, I am still stuck, I am using ESXi5.1 though and Fedora18 in Guest. Please let me know what is the guest OS distro you are using in the VM. I'll try with that once. Regards -Prashant -Original Message- From: Srinivasan J [mailto:srinid...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 07

[dpdk-dev] Very low performance with l2fwd in a VM with PCI Passthrough

2014-03-07 Thread Surya Nimmagadda
When change the device emulation in the NIC to virtio, I could get 900mbps when sending 1g of input. Good so far. But when I increased the traffic rate to 10g, output became very turbulent - ranging from 0 to 150mbps. I tried rate limiting on the vfs using the following commands, but didnt help

[dpdk-dev] Very low performance with l2fwd in a VM with PCI Passthrough

2014-03-07 Thread Richardson, Bruce
> My setup details are > > - Traffic coming in on a 10G interface(eth0) and going out on another 10G > interface(eth1) > - Both 10G NICs are 82599 > - Created virtual functions eth5 and eth8 on eth0 and eth1 respectively > - eth5 and eth8 are mapped to eth0 and eth1 in a VM, with device type as >

[dpdk-dev] Intel 82571EB PMD support

2014-03-07 Thread Chetan Bali
Hi, Do we have PMD support for intel 82571EB. We are having e1000e driver supported for 82571EB in linux. DPDK Version : 1.6.0-r1 Linux Kernel : CentOS 6.4 [ kernel version 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 ] Issue: When we run DPDK example [ l2fwd ], we are able to see successful init of rte_pmd_em an

[dpdk-dev] Topology question

2014-03-07 Thread Meir Tseitlin
Hi guys, I am running DPDK on native Linux environment. I also running Windows 7 under KVM virtualized environment for GUI purposes. What is the best way of creating Layer 2 communication channel between Windows application (which uses winpcap) and DPDK application running under Linux. Performanc

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: pass CROSS_COMPILE when compiling kernel modules

2014-03-07 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:55:36PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 07/02/2014 18:44, Aaro Koskinen : > > Pass CROSS_COMPILE to the kernel build system when compiling kernel > > modules. Although we export CC etc. the top level kernel Makefile will > > override the environment. As a result it w

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] DPDK 1.6.1 fixes

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen Hemminger
These are patches for issues found during integration of 1.6.1 and also during product development on earlier release.

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6] rte_mbuf: copy offload flags when doing attach/clone of mbuf

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6] qos: use rte_zmalloc instead of memzone for allocation

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6] rte_jhash: make arg to rte_jhash2 const

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/6] mempool: use GCC push/pop

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] xen: dont create dependency on cmdline library

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6] ivshmem: fix errors identified by hardening

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen Hemminger
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