> On 14 Oct 2015, at 07:56, 王勇 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, all
> 
> I have a box equipped with 32 cores (2 cpus and hyperthread is enabled) and a 
> 4-port intel 82576 card. There are 2 nprobe running on this machine listening 
> 2 ports which having about 200Mbps(less then 100kpps) on each of them. The 
> pf-ring version is 5.6 in mode 2. 
> 
> what I observed about the packet dropping is:
> 1. the tot pkt lost in /proc/net/pfring/info is 0

/proc/net/pf_ring/info does not contain drop stats..

> 2. the tot packet drop in ifconfig for the port is not zero and keep 
> increasing on the rate of several thousands packet a second.

This means kernel is not able to move packets off the card fast enough.

> 3. the num free slot remains above 0. so that means the nprobe is fast enough.

Correct.

> 
> so, in this situation, what is the root cause of the packet drop, thank you 
> for any comment!

The NAPI mechanism seems to be the bottleneck, please try playing with RSS, 
otherwise you should try with ZC drivers.

Alfredo

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