> On May 12, 2017, at 10:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi ! > > I am working with MoonGen which is a fully scriptable packet generator build > on DPDK. > (→ https://github.com/emmericp/MoonGen) > > The system on which I perform tests has the following characteristics : > > CPU : Intel Core i3-6100 (3.70 GHz, 2 cores, 2 threads/core) > NIC : X540-AT2 with 2x10Gbe ports > OS : Linux Ubuntu Server 16.04 (kernel 4.4) > > I coded a MoonGen script which requests DPDK to transmit packets from one > physical port and to receive them at the second physical port. The 2 physical > ports are directly connected with an RJ-45 cat6 cable. > > The issue is that I perform the same test with exactly the same script and > the same parameters several times and the results show a random behavior. For > most of the tests there is no losses but for some of them I observe packet > losses. The percentage of lost packets is very variable. It happens even when > the packet rate is very low. > > Some examples of random failed tests : > > # 1,000,000 packets sent (packets size = 124 bytes, rate = 76 Mbps) → 10170 > lost packets > > # 3,000,000 packets sent (packets size = 450 bytes, rate = 460 Mbps) → ALL > packets lost > > > I tested the following system modifications without success : > > # BIOS parameters : > > Hyperthreading : enable (because the machine has only 2 cores) > Multi-processor : enable > Virtualization Technology (VTx) : disable > Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VTd) : disable > Allow PCIe/PCI SERR# Interrupt (=PCIe System Errors) : disable > NUMA unavailable > > # use of isolcpus in order to isolate the cores which are in charge of > transmission and reception > > # hugepages size = 1048576 kB > > # size of buffer descriptors : tried with Tx = 512 descriptors and Rx = 128 > descriptors and also with Tx = 4096 descriptors and Rx = 4096 descriptors > > # Tested with 2 different X540-T2 NICs units > > # I tested all with a Dell FC430 which has a CPU Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 @ > 2.6GHz with 10 Cores and 2threads/Core (tested with and without > hyper-threading) > → same results and even worse > > > Remark concerning the NIC stats : > I used the rte_eth_stats struct in order to get more information about > the losses and I observed that in some cases, when there is packet losses, > ierrors value is > 0 and also ierrors + imissed + ipackets < opackets. In > other cases I get ierrors = 0 and imissed + ipackets = opackets which has > more sense. > > What could be the origin of that erroneous packets counting? > > Do you have any explanation about that behaviour ?
Not knowing MoonGen at all other then a brief look at the source I may not be much help, but I have a few ideas to help locate the problem. Try using testpmd in tx-only mode or try Pktgen to see if you get the same problem. I hope this would narrow down the problem to a specific area. As we know DPDK works if correctly coded and testpmd/pktgen work. > > Thanks in advance. > > David Regards, Keith
