Hi everybody,

Does anyone have an idea on this?

Thank you in advance!

With best regards,
Tom.

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| Tom Ghyselinck
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On wo, 2015-04-15 at 14:18 +0200, Tom Ghyselinck wrote: 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are developing a traffic generator/analyser using PF_RING ZC on Intel
> X710 Dual-port 10Gbps NICs.
> 
> We got stuck at an issue where packets at receive side have unwanted
> buffering before they are received by our application.
> 
> - Our application uses the two interfaces.
> - For each interface we open two PF_RING rings, one in send-only mode
> and one in receive-only mode.
> - It is a linux-based system.
> - Our receive threads have scheduling policy `SCHED_RR` with minimum
> priority.
> - Our transmission threads have scheduling policy `SCHED_FIFO` with
> minimum priority.
> 
> For testing we connected our interfaces back-to-back
> In one of the scenarios we noticed:
> - We see the `pfring_poll()` method return with timeout at the correct
> timeout interval we specified (for both interfaces).
> - We transmit a packet at interface A
> - `pfring_poll()`/`pfring_recv()` at interface B does not detect it.
> - When we check the interace statistics (ethtool -S enp8s0f1), the 'rx'
> counters at interface B *did increase*.
> - It is only after 8 packets (approx. 8 seconds) that we receive those 8
> packets at once.
> 
> I have tried:
> - Different pf_ring kernel module options (quick_mode)
> - A lot of device configurations/features enabled / disabled.
> - Many flags for `pfring_open` (currently PF_RING_PROMISC |
> PF_RING_DO_NOT_PARSE | PF_RING_TIMESTAMP | PF_RING_HW_TIMESTAMP |
> PF_RING_DNA_FIXED_RSS_Q_0 | PF_RING_REENTRANT)
> 
> Can someone help us out?
> Does anyone have any idea how to disable this caching or decrease the
> timeout when the packets are released to the application?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance!
> 
> P.S. Our current device configuration is:
> 
>         # ethtool -l enp8s0f0
>         Channel parameters for enp8s0f0:
>         Pre-set maximums:
>         RX: 0
>         TX: 0
>         Other: 1
>         Combined: 64
>         Current hardware settings:
>         RX: 0
>         TX: 0
>         Other: 1
>         Combined: 1
>         
>         # ethtool -k enp8s0f0
>         Features for enp8s0f0:
>         rx-checksumming: on
>         tx-checksumming: on
>         tx-checksum-ipv4: on
>         tx-checksum-ip-generic: off [fixed]
>         tx-checksum-ipv6: on
>         tx-checksum-fcoe-crc: off [fixed]
>         tx-checksum-sctp: on
>         scatter-gather: on
>         tx-scatter-gather: on
>         tx-scatter-gather-fraglist: off [fixed]
>         tcp-segmentation-offload: off
>         tx-tcp-segmentation: off
>         tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: off
>         tx-tcp6-segmentation: off
>         udp-fragmentation-offload: off [fixed]
>         generic-segmentation-offload: off
>         generic-receive-offload: on
>         large-receive-offload: off [fixed]
>         rx-vlan-offload: off
>         tx-vlan-offload: off
>         ntuple-filters: on
>         receive-hashing: on
>         highdma: on
>         rx-vlan-filter: on
>         vlan-challenged: off [fixed]
>         tx-lockless: off [fixed]
>         netns-local: off [fixed]
>         tx-gso-robust: off [fixed]
>         tx-fcoe-segmentation: off [fixed]
>         fcoe-mtu: off [fixed]
>         tx-nocache-copy: on
>         loopback: off [fixed]
>         rx-fcs: off [fixed]
>         rx-all: off [fixed]
>         
>         # ethtool -g enp8s0f0
>         Ring parameters for enp8s0f0:
>         Pre-set maximums:
>         RX: 4096
>         RX Mini: 0
>         RX Jumbo: 0
>         TX: 4096
>         Current hardware settings:
>         RX: 512
>         RX Mini: 0
>         RX Jumbo: 0
>         TX: 512
>         
>         # ethtool -c enp8s0f0
>         Coalesce parameters for enp8s0f0:
>         Adaptive RX: on  TX: on
>         stats-block-usecs: 0
>         sample-interval: 0
>         pkt-rate-low: 0
>         pkt-rate-high: 0
>         
>         rx-usecs: 62
>         rx-frames: 0
>         rx-usecs-irq: 0
>         rx-frames-irq: 256
>         
>         tx-usecs: 122
>         tx-frames: 0
>         tx-usecs-irq: 0
>         tx-frames-irq: 256
>         
>         rx-usecs-low: 0
>         rx-frame-low: 0
>         tx-usecs-low: 0
>         tx-frame-low: 0
>         
>         rx-usecs-high: 0
>         rx-frame-high: 0
>         tx-usecs-high: 0
>         tx-frame-high: 0
> 
> With best regards,
> Tom.
> 
> 

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