one directional traffic from SR-IOV port using l2fwd

one directional traffic from SR-IOV port using l2fwd

[James Yu]

I am trying to make SR-IOV + DPDK l2fwd to work together. I can only send
one directional traffic, not bi-directional.



The traffic is one-directionally looped back by l2fwd using DPDK l2fwd as
illustrated below



Spirent port 1 --> KVM host PF -> VF (Virtual function) --> DPDK l2fwd
(looping back to the other port) --+

Spirent port 2 <--                        <-
<----------------------------------------------------------------------+



When I send traffic from port 2 to KVM host, I did not receive traffic on
port 1.


 I think the code should use

rte_ixgbevf_pmd_init() as shown in l2fwd-vf in DPDK 1.2.3 release
(http://www.dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/examples/l2fwd-vf/main.c?h=1.2.3).

Any one knows how to send/receive ports to/from SR-IOV ports ?

Thanks

James

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I have the following setup. Anything mis-configured ?


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I did the following setup to turn on SR-IOV:



Test HW Config:

CPU   = Intel® Xeon® Processor E5506 = 4-core, 2.13 Ghz, (VT-d, VT-x
capable), Hyper threading not supported

Mem = 16GB RAM (800 Mhz) single slot (no NUMA)

NIC    = Intel 82599EB 10-Gigabit Ethernet (SR-IOV capable)



*Steps to setup KVM host and guest:*

1) Hypervisor

- Enable VT-d and Virtualization support

2) Host Kernel: RHEL 6.1 (2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64) qemu 0.12.1.2, ixgbe
3.15.1-k

a) Grub Kernel configuration

- Intel = Add "intel_iommu=on"

- AMD = Add "iommu=on iommu=pt"

b) In Host Kernel, Enable virtual functions for ixgbe.

- modprobe -r ixgbe

- modprobe -v ixgbe max_vfs=2

Here is the list of 10G PCI devices. The Virtual Function associated with
1a:10.0 and 1a:10.1 are 1a:10.2 and 1a:10.3. They will be used in the guest
VM hostdev XML configuration in 2(d).

[root@rh188 ~]# lspci |grep Eth

1a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+
Network Connection (rev 01)

1a:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+
Network Connection (rev 01)

1a:10.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller
Virtual Function (rev 01)

1a:10.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller
Virtual Function (rev 01)

*1a:10.2 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller
Virtual Function (rev 01)*

*1a:10.3 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 Ethernet Controller
Virtual Function (rev 01)*

c) Blacklist ixgbevf driver in the host. Add below two lines into
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

                # Intel SR-IOV virtual function driver (ixgbe)

                blacklist ixgbevf

d) Add PCIe Virtual functions to the KVM guest either graphically or
through "virsh edit" command. For examples, two <*hostdev*> entries are
added in the guest XML configuration. The ones in bold, function 0x2 and
0x3, are the virtual functions listed in the host. They are associated with
the slot 0x05 and slot 0x08 on the guest VM. You will use these two PCI
devices on the guest.

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>

      <source>

*        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x1a' slot='0x10' function='0x2'/>*

      </source>

      <alias name='hostdev0'/>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05'
function='0x0'/>

    </hostdev>

    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>

      <source>

*        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x1a' slot='0x10' function='0x3'/>*

      </source>

      <alias name='hostdev1'/>

      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08'
function='0x0'/>

    </hostdev>

3) Guest Kernel



 To run DPDK l2fwd loopback, run the following script under the dpdk source
code directory:

*modprobe -r igb_uio*

*modprobe uio*

*insmod ./build/kmod/igb_uio.ko*

 *modprobe -r ixgbevf*

*insmod /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/ixgbevf-2.12.1/src/ixgbevf.ko*

 *#Reserve huge pages memory.*

*mkdir -p /mnt/huge*

*mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge*

*echo 196 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages*

*./tools/pci_unbind.py --bind=igb_uio 00:05.0*

*./tools/pci_unbind.py --bind=igb_uio 00:08.0*



*./examples/l2fwd/build/l2fwd -c 3 -n 1 -b 000:00:03.0 -b 000:00:07.0 -b
000:00:0a.0 -- -q 1 -p 3*



*NOTE: ixgbevf.ko is built based on ixgbevf-2.12.1 which has bug fixes to
improve the performance.*