[ovs-discuss] [dpdk-dev] DPDK with vhostuser - Issue in Testing with DPDK-Pktgen

[Wiles, Keith]

>Dear Przemek, Sean & Sugesh,
>
>It would be great if get your valuable inputs for the below listed issue. 
>We have setup DPDK with vhostuser in AllinOne setup on following software 
>platform.
>_____________
>Openstack: Kilo
>Distribution: Ubuntu 14.04
>OVS Version: 2.4.0
>DPDK 2.0.0
>_____________
>
>In our Openstack OVS-DPDK  set up, we are spawning 2 instance on same host 
>with Ubuntu and running DPDK-pktgen in one of the VM and measuring traffic 
>between VMs of same host.
>
>VMs spec are 8GB of memory and 4 core, we are using one port for pktgen 
>application.
> 
>Please fine the VM huge page setting as well,
> 
>HugePages_Total:    1024
>HugePages_Free:      896
>HugePages_Rsvd:        0
>HugePages_Surp:        0
>Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
> 
>Please find the below command we are using,
> 
>./app/app/$RTE_TARGET/pktgen -c 0f -n 3  --proc-type auto --socket-mem 256 
>-b 0000:00:03.0 -- -P -m "[1-3].0"
> 
>Regardless of the cores whatever we are passing here(-m "[1-3].0"), the 
>traffic is sending via only one core, remaining 2 cores are idle.

I verified on my machine in the host userspace that all three lcores were sending packets. Could it be something with the VM not scheduling the other cores for some reason?

> 
>We have added specific property as well to the images we are using,
> 
>hw:­vif_multiqueue_­enabled=­true à Flavor property
>hw_­vif_mutliqueue_­enabled=­true à Image property
> 
>Still we got the same issue on the application.
> 
>From logs,
>. . . . .
>** Dev Info (rte_virtio_pmd:0) **
>   max_vfs        :   0 min_rx_bufsize    :  64 max_rx_pktlen :  9728 
>max_rx_queues         :   1 max_tx_queues:   1
>. . . . .
> 
>
>Kindly suggest us something on this regard if we need to tune anything on 
>Openstack end or in pktgen application.
>
>
>Thanks & Regards
>Abhijeet Karve
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Regards,
Keith