[ovs-discuss] ARP reply packet fail to transmit on the wire on 82599ES
Du, Fan
fan.du at intel.com
Tue Oct 20 06:05:42 UTC 2015
hi dpdk and ovs experts
My test bed is pretty simple, setup host1 and host2 with following topology.
I use dpdk-2.0.0 with ovs head commit.
On host1:
kvm guest1 -> dpdkvhostuser -> br-int -> vxlan port -> br-ex -> dpdk port
ifconfig br-ex 192.168.1.2/24
On host2:
kvm guest2 -> dpdkvhostuser -> br-int -> vxlan port -> br-ex -> dpdk port
ifconfig br-ex 192.168.1.4/24
All ovs bridge are on user space, both hosts are connected with DAC
using 82599ES,
the first packet between guest1 and guest2 triggers arp resolution for
the vxlan
outer mac address for br-ex ip address.
tcpdump on host1 br-ex with dummy device:
09:32:58.393875 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.1.4 tell 192.168.1.2, length 28
tcpdump on host2 br-ex with dummy device:
21:21:31.766201 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.1.4 tell 192.168.1.2, length 46
21:21:31.766273 ARP, Reply 192.168.1.4 is-at 90:e2:ba:64:f4:05, length 46
It's wired that host1 failed receive ARP Reply packet from host2, so
guest1 and
guest2 cannot talk to each other. When I replace dpdk port with normal
net device
ens803f1 using the same NIC physical port, two guests talk to each other
well.
After some digging, the ARP reply packet did reach on ixgbe tx_pkt_burst
function,
whether or not RTE_IXGBE_INC_VECTOR is set, ARP reply packet didn't show
on wire.
This looks like a bug to me, or am I missing something somewhere obviously.
Any suggestions and pointers is appreciated.
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