Re: [vpp-dev] dpdk & vpp

2018-07-26 Thread Rui Cai via Lists.Fd.Io
Hi Xiao: By changing dpdk driver, do you mean that you changed code in DPDK and wants to compile VPP with modified DPDK? If so, I recommend checking out the option to compile VPP with "vpp_uses_external_dpdk = yes". Here are the steps I used: 1) Compiled DPDK with EXTRA_CFLAGS'-fPIC -pie'

[vpp-dev] Latest master seems to ignore "vpp_uses_external_dpdk = yes" when compiling with external DPDK

2018-08-20 Thread Rui Cai via Lists.Fd.Io
Hello VPP experts: I noticed that recently when I tried to build VPP with external DPDK (DPDK with some local changes), the build system seems to ignore the "vpp_uses_external_dpdk = yes". I checked out the changes in src\dpdk\Makefile and compared the my working vpp folder and the latest maste

[vpp-dev] Question about ip4(6)-glean node behavior and packet drops

2018-09-28 Thread Rui Cai via Lists.Fd.Io
Hello VPP experts: I have question about the behavior of ip4(6)-glean nodes. In particular, I'm noticing the node is dropping the original packet that triggered glean process. The VPP I'm running is 18.07 with DPDK 18.02. I'm using VPP as a simple forwarding application where final destination'

Re: [vpp-dev] Question about ip4(6)-glean node behavior and packet drops

2018-09-28 Thread Rui Cai via Lists.Fd.Io
ents give rise to resource exhaustion attacks. Mitigating that kind of attack burns clock cycles, which in turn gives rise to a different kind of attack. HTH... Dave From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io<mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io>> On Behalf Of Rui Cai via Lists.Fd

[vpp-dev] Question about VPP plugin/node's life cycle

2018-10-18 Thread Rui Cai via Lists.Fd.Io
Hello vpp experts: I'm trying to figure out a plugin/node's life cycle with in VPP process. There is very rich code/documentation talking about plugin registration/initialization and node registration. I understand that nodes are created during node graph build up and during plugin init functio

Re: [vpp-dev] Question about VPP plugin/node's life cycle

2018-10-19 Thread Rui Cai via Lists.Fd.Io
As you probably suspect: plugins are neither unloaded nor reloaded. HTH... Dave From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io<mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io>> On Behalf Of Rui Cai via Lists.Fd.Io Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 9:43 PM To: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io<mailto:v