Hi Raja,

Thank you for your quick response.

More questions: ...: )

1. What do you mean "compute node provisioning"? Are you saying
vRouter-agent writes the "hugepages" and other "EAL
(coremask/nic/memory...)" options to a testbed file for vRouter-dpdk
process to initialize? Could I just manually config DPDK hugepage and
parameters for vRouter-dpdk? If not too much trouble, could you please give
me a pointer of DPDK utilities?
2. If the answer for question 1 is yes,  vRouter-dpdk process is able to
run by itself without vrouter-agent involved?
3. From my understanding of the CLI utility tools, it uses sandesh protocol
on top of netlink to talk vRouter-dpdk process. In this case, during the
develop process, developer can just use utility CLI to push config and pop
the stats to verify vRourer-DPDK works as expected. Is it correct?

Really appreciate your input and you have a good weekend.

Thanks,
Eric




On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Rajagopalan Sivaramakrishnan <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi Eric,
>     DPDK vrouter is not yet officially supported. It is scheduled to be
> released with 2.30 later this year.
> The compute node will need to be provisioned to enable DPDK in the testbed
> file. Doing this manually
> may involve a fair amount of work (more below).
>
>  Raja
>
>   1. How to start the "contrail-vrouter-dpdk" process? any parameter
> needs to pass in?
>
>  contrail-vrouter-dpdk —no-daemon
>
>    2. How to debug the error condition? where is the log stored?
>
>  /var/log/contrail/*dpdk*
>
>  3. Do I need to un-bind the NIC driver for this vRouter DPDK process to
> start? Will the vRouter DPDK process set the DPDK environment before the
> process starts? or any script I need to run before hand?
>
>  These will be taken care of by compute node provisioning. Otherwise,
> this will need to be done manually using DPDK utilities.
>
>  4. Could the CLI utility tools be used here without any modification?
>
>  Yes, if the compute node has been provisioned for DPDK.
>
>
>
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