Have tried with the vfio driver instead? I've used that on AWS fairly recently and noticed no packet loss.
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 16:24, amit sehas <[email protected]> wrote: > I am utilizing dpdk between EC2 instances in AWS. I am noticing that the > first few times packets are sent from one instance to > another, they are always dropped ( i think at the source). The steps i > took to utilize the dpdk ports are as follows: > > modprobe uio > modprobe hwmon > insmod ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/kmod/rte_kni.ko > insmod ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/kmod/igb_uio.ko > > ifconfig eth1 down > > ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --bind=igb_uio 00:04.0 > > Is there an explanation of why only the first few packets would be dropped > and there after the communication moves > along smoothly without any issues at all ? The behavior is consistent. I > am a new user of dpdk so i am completely lost > about the behavior ... > > Do i have to configure something with ethtool? > > Any help is greatly appreciated ... > > thanks >
