[ovs-discuss] Performance of VF and DPDK port on multiport card

Hi All, I have 4 port card X710 card(i40e driver), on 3 of them i have configured SRIOV and using one physical port bound to ovs-dpdk. I am observing some strange behaviour with performance. If i run traffic on VFS and DPDK port , performance is better on VFS. If I remove DPDK port and run

[ovs-discuss] pmd segfault

Hi All, Current software version: = openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64 dpdk-17.11-7.el7.x86_64 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 VM Configuration: = I have vm having regular 2 virtio ports, 1 vhost-dpdk , 1 sriov ports on it. At times PMD crashes with

[ovs-discuss] Faster way to load ovs-dpdk or isolation zones ?

I have my management port and as well as data ports on different ovs-bridges, as ovs-dpdk is the common driver for all the bridges, If for some reason ovs-dpdk goes down, i would loose management connectivity to the the system. Though ovs-dpdk restarts after crash, in my case I have 2M huge

[ovs-discuss] vhost_net driver version and ovs-dpdk versions needs to compatible ?

Hi, I have ovs-dpdk setup and have spawned a VM with 2 vhost-user ports. I am using vhost in dpdkvhostuserclient mode. If I reboot the guest vm by issuing reboot command i am getting SEGV , looked at the stack trace , (my guess it might be accessing old Queue memory). is there a compatibility

Re: [ovs-discuss] Packet capturing on vHost User Ports

Hi Tobias, You can use ovs-tcpdump for doing packet capture on vhost/dpdk/bond ports. Regards, Pradeep.K.S On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:35 PM Tobias Hofmann -T (tohofman - AAP3 INC at Cisco) via discuss wrote: > Hello, > > > > I am trying to capture packets with *tcpdump* which unfortunately

Re: [ovs-discuss] Ovs with DPDK:Error attaching device '0000:02:00.0' to DPDK

DPDK Looks hugepages in 2M, 1G and this is fine if system doesn't have 1G huge pages we can expect this message. 2018-07-30T02:12:05.443Z|00013|dpdk|WARN|EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB This is something to look far: 2018-07-30T02:13:51.690Z|00041|dpdk|ERR|EAL: Unable to

Re: [ovs-discuss] Ovs with DPDK:Error attaching device '0000:02:00.0' to DPDK

Did you load/inserted vfio-pci driver before starting ovs, else ovs-dpdk won't initialize with support for vfio-pci. If not reload the openvswitch process after loading vfio module in the kernel. ovs-vswichd.log will help to debug further if above doesn't resolve your error. On Sat, Jul 28,

[ovs-discuss] Reclaim huge pages after disabling dpdk (dpdk-init=false)

Hi All, I am allocating ovs-dpdk socket memory during dpdk initialization. [dpdk-socket-mem="3072,2048", dpdk-init=true] , If i disable ovs-dpdk memory is not getting released, basically i am relying on /proc/meminfo huge page counter to validate its reclaimed, i don't see it coming back. Any

[ovs-discuss] Blocking traffic between 2 ports

Hi, I want to restrict traffic between 2 ports, is there any direct way of achieving that in OVS ? I can do that by adding multiple flows(block destination mac, redirecting broadcast/multicast traffic to uplink, and add flows for flood during unicast mac resolution). Any pointers would be

[ovs-discuss] Programming flows to bond port

I have a created bond interface, with multiple slaves. I want to program flows such that packets arriving on port X -> should be directed to bond port But the problem is bond port doesn't have ofportid, how to program such a flow using ovs-ofctl I tried setting bond_fake_iface, still I don't get

[ovs-discuss] Matching fields with GRE+NSH

Hi, I have packet structure with following format eth | OuterIP |GRE | NSH | Inner IP packet *Few Questions:* 1) Does Open Flow matching supports raw data[Eth+OuterIP+GRE+NSH+InnerIP] packet match. atleast from my reading ovs-ofctl, ovs-fields documentation I did not find such a thing. 2)