From patchwork Wed Mar 18 10:20:39 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Wodkowski, PawelX" X-Patchwork-Id: 4041 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7905A8E; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:25:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF2A5A8A for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:25:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Mar 2015 03:22:57 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,422,1422950400"; d="scan'208";a="666881594" Received: from unknown (HELO Sent) ([10.217.248.233]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2015 03:25:02 -0700 Received: by Sent (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:20:44 +0100 From: Pawel Wodkowski To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:20:39 +0100 Message-Id: <1426674039-13016-1-git-send-email-pawelx.wodkowski@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1426066917-4602-1-git-send-email-pawelx.wodkowski@intel.com> References: <1426066917-4602-1-git-send-email-pawelx.wodkowski@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: add l2fwd-jobstats user guide X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Signed-off-by: Pawel Wodkowski --- Changes v2 1. 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Add maintaners claim MAINTAINERS | 1 + doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst | 1 + doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l2_forward_job_stats.rst | 637 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 639 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l2_forward_job_stats.rst diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 07fdf5e..a82e2f0 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ Job statistics M: Pawel Wodkowski F: lib/librte_jobstats/ F: examples/l2fwd-jobstats/ +F: doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l2_forward_job_stats.rst Test Applications diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst index 5720181..c89a2f0 100644 --- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst +++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Sample Applications User Guide ipv4_multicast ip_reassembly kernel_nic_interface + l2_forward_job_stats l2_forward_real_virtual l3_forward l3_forward_power_man diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l2_forward_job_stats.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l2_forward_job_stats.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e25d7b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/l2_forward_job_stats.rst @@ -0,0 +1,637 @@ +.. BSD LICENSE + Copyright(c) 2010-2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. + All rights reserved. + + Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without + modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions + are met: + + * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright + notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. + * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright + notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in + the documentation and/or other materials provided with the + distribution. + * Neither the name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its + contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived + from this software without specific prior written permission. + + THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS + "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT + LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR + A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT + OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, + SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT + LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, + DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY + THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT + (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE + OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. + +L2 Forwarding Sample Application (in Real and Virtualized Environments) with core load statistics. +================================================================================================== + +The L2 Forwarding sample application is a simple example of packet processing using +the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) which +also takes advantage of Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) features in a virtualized environment. + +.. note:: + + This application is a variation of L2 Forwarding sample application. It demonstrate possible + scheme of job stats library usage therefore some parts of this document is identical with original + L2 forwarding application. + +Overview +-------- + +The L2 Forwarding sample application, which can operate in real and virtualized environments, +performs L2 forwarding for each packet that is received. +The destination port is the adjacent port from the enabled portmask, that is, +if the first four ports are enabled (portmask 0xf), +ports 1 and 2 forward into each other, and ports 3 and 4 forward into each other. +Also, the MAC addresses are affected as follows: + +* The source MAC address is replaced by the TX port MAC address + +* The destination MAC address is replaced by 02:00:00:00:00:TX_PORT_ID + +This application can be used to benchmark performance using a traffic-generator, as shown in the Figure 3. + +The application can also be used in a virtualized environment as shown in Figure 4. + +The L2 Forwarding application can also be used as a starting point for developing a new application based on the DPDK. + +.. _figure_3: + +**Figure 3. Performance Benchmark Setup (Basic Environment)** + +.. image4_png has been replaced + +|l2_fwd_benchmark_setup| + +.. _figure_4: + +**Figure 4. Performance Benchmark Setup (Virtualized Environment)** + +.. image5_png has been renamed + +|l2_fwd_virtenv_benchmark_setup| + +Virtual Function Setup Instructions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This application can use the virtual function available in the system and +therefore can be used in a virtual machine without passing through +the whole Network Device into a guest machine in a virtualized scenario. +The virtual functions can be enabled in the host machine or the hypervisor with the respective physical function driver. + +For example, in a Linux* host machine, it is possible to enable a virtual function using the following command: + +.. code-block:: console + + modprobe ixgbe max_vfs=2,2 + +This command enables two Virtual Functions on each of Physical Function of the NIC, +with two physical ports in the PCI configuration space. +It is important to note that enabled Virtual Function 0 and 2 would belong to Physical Function 0 +and Virtual Function 1 and 3 would belong to Physical Function 1, +in this case enabling a total of four Virtual Functions. + +Compiling the Application +------------------------- + +#. Go to the example directory: + + .. code-block:: console + + export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk cd ${RTE_SDK}/examples/l2fwd-jobstats + +#. Set the target (a default target is used if not specified). For example: + + .. code-block:: console + + export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc + + *See the DPDK Getting Started Guide* for possible RTE_TARGET values. + +#. Build the application: + + .. code-block:: console + + make + +Running the Application +----------------------- + +The application requires a number of command line options: + +.. code-block:: console + + ./build/l2fwd-jobstats [EAL options] -- -p PORTMASK [-q NQ] [-l] + +where, + +* p PORTMASK: A hexadecimal bitmask of the ports to configure + +* q NQ: A number of queues (=ports) per lcore (default is 1) + +* l: Use locale thousands separator when formatting big numbers. + +To run the application in linuxapp environment with 4 lcores, 16 ports, 8 RX queues per lcore and +thousands separator printing, issue the command: + +.. code-block:: console + + $ ./build/l2fwd-jobstats -c f -n 4 -- -q 8 -p ffff -l + +Refer to the *DPDK Getting Started Guide* for general information on running applications +and the Environment Abstraction Layer (EAL) options. + +Explanation +----------- + +The following sections provide some explanation of the code. + +Command Line Arguments +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The L2 Forwarding sample application takes specific parameters, +in addition to Environment Abstraction Layer (EAL) arguments (see Section 9.3). +The preferred way to parse parameters is to use the getopt() function, +since it is part of a well-defined and portable library. + +The parsing of arguments is done in the l2fwd_parse_args() function. +The method of argument parsing is not described here. +Refer to the *glibc getopt(3)* man page for details. + +EAL arguments are parsed first, then application-specific arguments. +This is done at the beginning of the main() function: + +.. code-block:: c + + /* init EAL */ + + ret = rte_eal_init(argc, argv); + if (ret < 0) + rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Invalid EAL arguments\n"); + + argc -= ret; + argv += ret; + + /* parse application arguments (after the EAL ones) */ + + ret = l2fwd_parse_args(argc, argv); + if (ret < 0) + rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Invalid L2FWD arguments\n"); + +Mbuf Pool Initialization +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Once the arguments are parsed, the mbuf pool is created. +The mbuf pool contains a set of mbuf objects that will be used by the driver +and the application to store network packet data: + +.. code-block:: c + + /* create the mbuf pool */ + l2fwd_pktmbuf_pool = + rte_mempool_create("mbuf_pool", NB_MBUF, + MBUF_SIZE, 32, + sizeof(struct rte_pktmbuf_pool_private), + rte_pktmbuf_pool_init, NULL, + rte_pktmbuf_init, NULL, + rte_socket_id(), 0); + + if (l2fwd_pktmbuf_pool == NULL) + rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Cannot init mbuf pool\n"); + +The rte_mempool is a generic structure used to handle pools of objects. +In this case, it is necessary to create a pool that will be used by the driver, +which expects to have some reserved space in the mempool structure, +sizeof(struct rte_pktmbuf_pool_private) bytes. +The number of allocated pkt mbufs is NB_MBUF, with a size of MBUF_SIZE each. +A per-lcore cache of 32 mbufs is kept. +The memory is allocated in rte_socket_id() socket, +but it is possible to extend this code to allocate one mbuf pool per socket. + +Two callback pointers are also given to the rte_mempool_create() function: + +* The first callback pointer is to rte_pktmbuf_pool_init() and is used + to initialize the private data of the mempool, which is needed by the driver. + This function is provided by the mbuf API, but can be copied and extended by the developer. + +* The second callback pointer given to rte_mempool_create() is the mbuf initializer. + The default is used, that is, rte_pktmbuf_init(), which is provided in the rte_mbuf library. + If a more complex application wants to extend the rte_pktmbuf structure for its own needs, + a new function derived from rte_pktmbuf_init( ) can be created. + +Driver Initialization +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The main part of the code in the main() function relates to the initialization of the driver. +To fully understand this code, it is recommended to study the chapters that related to the Poll Mode Driver +in the *DPDK Programmer's Guide* and the *DPDK API Reference*. + +.. code-block:: c + + nb_ports = rte_eth_dev_count(); + + if (nb_ports == 0) + rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "No Ethernet ports - bye\n"); + + if (nb_ports > RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS) + nb_ports = RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS; + + /* reset l2fwd_dst_ports */ + + for (portid = 0; portid < RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS; portid++) + l2fwd_dst_ports[portid] = 0; + + last_port = 0; + + /* + * Each logical core is assigned a dedicated TX queue on each port. + */ + for (portid = 0; portid < nb_ports; portid++) { + /* skip ports that are not enabled */ + if ((l2fwd_enabled_port_mask & (1 << portid)) == 0) + continue; + + if (nb_ports_in_mask % 2) { + l2fwd_dst_ports[portid] = last_port; + l2fwd_dst_ports[last_port] = portid; + } + else + last_port = portid; + + nb_ports_in_mask++; + + rte_eth_dev_info_get((uint8_t) portid, &dev_info); + } + +The next step is to configure the RX and TX queues. +For each port, there is only one RX queue (only one lcore is able to poll a given port). +The number of TX queues depends on the number of available lcores. +The rte_eth_dev_configure() function is used to configure the number of queues for a port: + +.. code-block:: c + + ret = rte_eth_dev_configure((uint8_t)portid, 1, 1, &port_conf); + if (ret < 0) + rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Cannot configure device: " + "err=%d, port=%u\n", + ret, portid); + +The global configuration is stored in a static structure: + +.. code-block:: c + + static const struct rte_eth_conf port_conf = { + .rxmode = { + .split_hdr_size = 0, + .header_split = 0, /**< Header Split disabled */ + .hw_ip_checksum = 0, /**< IP checksum offload disabled */ + .hw_vlan_filter = 0, /**< VLAN filtering disabled */ + .jumbo_frame = 0, /**< Jumbo Frame Support disabled */ + .hw_strip_crc= 0, /**< CRC stripped by hardware */ + }, + + .txmode = { + .mq_mode = ETH_DCB_NONE + }, + }; + +RX Queue Initialization +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The application uses one lcore to poll one or several ports, depending on the -q option, +which specifies the number of queues per lcore. + +For example, if the user specifies -q 4, the application is able to poll four ports with one lcore. +If there are 16 ports on the target (and if the portmask argument is -p ffff ), +the application will need four lcores to poll all the ports. + +.. code-block:: c + + ret = rte_eth_rx_queue_setup(portid, 0, nb_rxd, + rte_eth_dev_socket_id(portid), + NULL, + l2fwd_pktmbuf_pool); + + if (ret < 0) + rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "rte_eth_rx_queue_setup:err=%d, port=%u\n", + ret, (unsigned) portid); + +The list of queues that must be polled for a given lcore is stored in a private structure called struct lcore_queue_conf. + +.. code-block:: c + + struct lcore_queue_conf { + unsigned n_rx_port; + unsigned rx_port_list[MAX_RX_QUEUE_PER_LCORE]; + truct mbuf_table tx_mbufs[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS]; + + struct rte_timer rx_timers[MAX_RX_QUEUE_PER_LCORE]; + struct rte_jobstats port_fwd_jobs[MAX_RX_QUEUE_PER_LCORE]; + + struct rte_timer flush_timer; + struct rte_jobstats flush_job; + struct rte_jobstats idle_job; + struct rte_jobstats_context jobs_context; + + rte_atomic16_t stats_read_pending; + rte_spinlock_t lock; + } __rte_cache_aligned; + +Values of struct lcore_queue_conf: + +* n_rx_port and rx_port_list[] are used in the main packet processing loop + (see Section 9.4.6 "Receive, Process and Transmit Packets" later in this chapter). + +* rx_timers and flush_timer are used to ensure forced TX on low packet rate. + +* flush_job, idle_job and jobs_context are librte_jobstats objects used for managing l2fwd jobs. + +* stats_read_pending and lock are used during job stats read phase. + +TX Queue Initialization +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Each lcore should be able to transmit on any port. For every port, a single TX queue is initialized. + +.. code-block:: c + + /* init one TX queue on each port */ + + fflush(stdout); + ret = rte_eth_tx_queue_setup(portid, 0, nb_txd, + rte_eth_dev_socket_id(portid), + NULL); + if (ret < 0) + rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "rte_eth_tx_queue_setup:err=%d, port=%u\n", + ret, (unsigned) portid); + +Jobs statistics initialization +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +There are several statistics objects available: + +* Flush job statistics + +.. code-block:: c + + rte_jobstats_init(&qconf->flush_job, "flush", drain_tsc, drain_tsc, + drain_tsc, 0); + + rte_timer_init(&qconf->flush_timer); + ret = rte_timer_reset(&qconf->flush_timer, drain_tsc, PERIODICAL, + lcore_id, &l2fwd_flush_job, NULL); + + if (ret < 0) { + rte_exit(1, "Failed to reset flush job timer for lcore %u: %s", + lcore_id, rte_strerror(-ret)); + } + +* Statistics per RX port + +.. code-block:: c + + rte_jobstats_init(job, name, 0, drain_tsc, 0, MAX_PKT_BURST); + rte_jobstats_set_update_period_function(job, l2fwd_job_update_cb); + + rte_timer_init(&qconf->rx_timers[i]); + ret = rte_timer_reset(&qconf->rx_timers[i], 0, PERIODICAL, lcore_id, + l2fwd_fwd_job, (void *)(uintptr_t)i); + + if (ret < 0) { + rte_exit(1, "Failed to reset lcore %u port %u job timer: %s", + lcore_id, qconf->rx_port_list[i], rte_strerror(-ret)); + } + +Following parameters are passed to rte_jobstats_init(): + +* 0 as minimal poll period + +* drain_tsc as maximum poll period + +* MAX_PKT_BURST as desired target value (RX burst size) + +Main loop +~~~~~~~~~ + +The forwarding path is reworked comparing to original L2 Forwarding application. +In the l2fwd_main_loop() function three loops are placed. + +.. code-block:: c + + for (;;) { + rte_spinlock_lock(&qconf->lock); + + do { + rte_jobstats_context_start(&qconf->jobs_context); + + /* Do the Idle job: + * - Read stats_read_pending flag + * - check if some real job need to be executed + */ + rte_jobstats_start(&qconf->jobs_context, &qconf->idle_job); + + do { + uint8_t i; + uint64_t now = rte_get_timer_cycles(); + + need_manage = qconf->flush_timer.expire < now; + /* Check if we was esked to give a stats. */ + stats_read_pending = + rte_atomic16_read(&qconf->stats_read_pending); + need_manage |= stats_read_pending; + + for (i = 0; i < qconf->n_rx_port && !need_manage; i++) + need_manage = qconf->rx_timers[i].expire < now; + + } while (!need_manage); + rte_jobstats_finish(&qconf->idle_job, qconf->idle_job.target); + + rte_timer_manage(); + rte_jobstats_context_finish(&qconf->jobs_context); + } while (likely(stats_read_pending == 0)); + + rte_spinlock_unlock(&qconf->lock); + rte_pause(); + } + +First inifnite for loop is to minimize impact of stats reading. Lock is only locked/unlocked when asked. + +Second inner while loop do the whole jobs management. When any job is ready, the use rte_timer_manage() is used to call the job handler. +In this place functions l2fwd_fwd_job() and l2fwd_flush_job() are called when needed. +Then rte_jobstats_context_finish() is called to mark loop end - no other jobs are ready to execute. By this time stats are ready to be read +and if stats_read_pending is set, loop breaks allowing stats to be read. + +Third do-while loop is the idle job (idle stats counter). Its only purpose is moniting if any job is ready or stats job read is pending +for this lcore. Statistics from this part of code is considered as the headroom available fo additional processing. + +Receive, Process and Transmit Packets +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The main task of l2fwd_fwd_job() function is to read ingress packets from the RX queue of particular port and forward it. +This is done using the following code: + +.. code-block:: c + + total_nb_rx = rte_eth_rx_burst((uint8_t) portid, 0, pkts_burst, + MAX_PKT_BURST); + + for (j = 0; j < total_nb_rx; j++) { + m = pkts_burst[j]; + rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(m, void *)); + l2fwd_simple_forward(m, portid); + } + +Packets are read in a burst of size MAX_PKT_BURST. +Then, each mbuf in the table is processed by the l2fwd_simple_forward() function. +The processing is very simple: process the TX port from the RX port, then replace the source and destination MAC addresses. + +The rte_eth_rx_burst() function writes the mbuf pointers in a local table and returns the number of available mbufs in the table. + +After first read second try is issued. + +.. code:: + + if (total_nb_rx == MAX_PKT_BURST) { + const uint16_t nb_rx = rte_eth_rx_burst((uint8_t) portid, 0, pkts_burst, + MAX_PKT_BURST); + + total_nb_rx += nb_rx; + for (j = 0; j < nb_rx; j++) { + m = pkts_burst[j]; + rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(m, void *)); + l2fwd_simple_forward(m, portid); + } + } + +This second read is important to give job stats library a feedback how many packets was processed. + +.. code:: + + /* Adjust period time in which we are running here. */ + if (rte_jobstats_finish(job, total_nb_rx) != 0) { + rte_timer_reset(&qconf->rx_timers[port_idx], job->period, PERIODICAL, + lcore_id, l2fwd_fwd_job, arg); + } + +To maximize performance exactly MAX_PKT_BURST is expected (the target value) to be read for each l2fwd_fwd_job() call. +If total_nb_rx is smaller than target value job->period will be increased. If it is greater the period will be decreased. + +.. note:: + + In the following code, one line for getting the output port requires some explanation. + +During the initialization process, a static array of destination ports (l2fwd_dst_ports[]) is filled such that for each source port, +a destination port is assigned that is either the next or previous enabled port from the portmask. +Naturally, the number of ports in the portmask must be even, otherwise, the application exits. + +.. code-block:: c + + static void + l2fwd_simple_forward(struct rte_mbuf *m, unsigned portid) + { + struct ether_hdr *eth; + void *tmp; + unsigned dst_port; + + dst_port = l2fwd_dst_ports[portid]; + + eth = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(m, struct ether_hdr *); + + /* 02:00:00:00:00:xx */ + + tmp = ð->d_addr.addr_bytes[0]; + + *((uint64_t *)tmp) = 0x000000000002 + ((uint64_t) dst_port << 40); + + /* src addr */ + + ether_addr_copy(&l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[dst_port], ð->s_addr); + + l2fwd_send_packet(m, (uint8_t) dst_port); + } + +Then, the packet is sent using the l2fwd_send_packet (m, dst_port) function. +For this test application, the processing is exactly the same for all packets arriving on the same RX port. +Therefore, it would have been possible to call the l2fwd_send_burst() function directly from the main loop +to send all the received packets on the same TX port, +using the burst-oriented send function, which is more efficient. + +However, in real-life applications (such as, L3 routing), +packet N is not necessarily forwarded on the same port as packet N-1. +The application is implemented to illustrate that, so the same approach can be reused in a more complex application. + +The l2fwd_send_packet() function stores the packet in a per-lcore and per-txport table. +If the table is full, the whole packets table is transmitted using the l2fwd_send_burst() function: + +.. code-block:: c + + /* Send the packet on an output interface */ + + static int + l2fwd_send_packet(struct rte_mbuf *m, uint8_t port) + { + unsigned lcore_id, len; + struct lcore_queue_conf *qconf; + + lcore_id = rte_lcore_id(); + qconf = &lcore_queue_conf[lcore_id]; + len = qconf->tx_mbufs[port].len; + qconf->tx_mbufs[port].m_table[len] = m; + len++; + + /* enough pkts to be sent */ + + if (unlikely(len == MAX_PKT_BURST)) { + l2fwd_send_burst(qconf, MAX_PKT_BURST, port); + len = 0; + } + + qconf->tx_mbufs[port].len = len; return 0; + } + +To ensure that no packets remain in the tables, the flush job exists. The l2fwd_flush_job() +is called periodicaly to for each lcore draining TX queue of each port. +This technique introduces some latency when there are not many packets to send, +however it improves performance: + +.. code-block:: c + + static void + l2fwd_flush_job(__rte_unused struct rte_timer *timer, __rte_unused void *arg) + { + uint64_t now; + unsigned lcore_id; + struct lcore_queue_conf *qconf; + struct mbuf_table *m_table; + uint8_t portid; + + lcore_id = rte_lcore_id(); + qconf = &lcore_queue_conf[lcore_id]; + + rte_jobstats_start(&qconf->jobs_context, &qconf->flush_job); + + now = rte_get_timer_cycles(); + lcore_id = rte_lcore_id(); + qconf = &lcore_queue_conf[lcore_id]; + for (portid = 0; portid < RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS; portid++) { + m_table = &qconf->tx_mbufs[portid]; + if (m_table->len == 0 || m_table->next_flush_time <= now) + continue; + + l2fwd_send_burst(qconf, portid); + } + + + /* Pass target to indicate that this job is happy of time interval + * in which it was called. */ + rte_jobstats_finish(&qconf->flush_job, qconf->flush_job.target); + } + +.. |l2_fwd_benchmark_setup| image:: img/l2_fwd_benchmark_setup.svg + +.. |l2_fwd_virtenv_benchmark_setup| image:: img/l2_fwd_virtenv_benchmark_setup.png