Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS DPDK: Failed to create memory pool for netdev

2019-11-13 Thread Flavio Leitner
On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:45:13 + "Tobias Hofmann \(tohofman\) via discuss" wrote: > Hi Flavio, > > to follow up on this: I have just upgraded DPDK to 18.11 and OVS to > 2.11 and I don't see this issue anymore. Also, I don't observe any > "ring error" messages although the MTU is still at 9216

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS DPDK: Failed to create memory pool for netdev

2019-11-11 Thread Tobias Hofmann (tohofman) via discuss
Hi Flavio, to follow up on this: I have just upgraded DPDK to 18.11 and OVS to 2.11 and I don't see this issue anymore. Also, I don't observe any "ring error" messages although the MTU is still at 9216 and OvS only has 1Gb of memory. Do you have an idea which change in DPDK/OvS might have resolv

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS DPDK: Failed to create memory pool for netdev

2019-11-06 Thread Tobias Hofmann (tohofman) via discuss
Hi Flavio, the only error I saw in 'ovs-vsctl show' was related to the dpdk port. The other ports all came up fine. Regarding the "ring error", I'm fine with having it, as long as DPDK is able to reserve the minimum amount of memory (which, after restarting OvS process is always the case). Re

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS DPDK: Failed to create memory pool for netdev

2019-11-05 Thread Flavio Leitner
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 18:47:09 + "Tobias Hofmann \(tohofman\) via discuss" wrote: > Hi Flavio, > > thanks for the insights! Unfortunately, I don't know about the pdump > and its relation to the ring. pdump dumps packets from dpdk ports into rings/mempools, so that you can inspect/use the traff

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS DPDK: Failed to create memory pool for netdev

2019-11-05 Thread Tobias Hofmann (tohofman) via discuss
Hi Flavio, thanks for the insights! Unfortunately, I don't know about the pdump and its relation to the ring. Can you please specify where I can see that the port is not ready yet? Is that these three lines: 2019-11-02T14:14:23.094Z|00070|dpdk|ERR|EAL: Cannot find unplugged device (:08:0b

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS DPDK: Failed to create memory pool for netdev

2019-11-05 Thread Flavio Leitner
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 19:12:36 + "Tobias Hofmann (tohofman)" wrote: > Hi Flavio, > > thanks for reaching out. > > The DPDK options used in OvS are: > > other_config:pmd-cpu-mask=0x202 > other_config:dpdk-socket-mem=1024 > other_config:dpdk-init=true > > > For the dpdk port, we set: > > typ

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS DPDK: Failed to create memory pool for netdev

2019-11-04 Thread Tobias Hofmann (tohofman) via discuss
Hi Flavio, thanks for reaching out. The DPDK options used in OvS are: other_config:pmd-cpu-mask=0x202 other_config:dpdk-socket-mem=1024 other_config:dpdk-init=true For the dpdk port, we set: type=dpdk options:dpdk-devargs=:08:0b.2 external_ids:unused-drv=i40evf mtu_request=9216 Please

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS DPDK: Failed to create memory pool for netdev

2019-11-04 Thread Flavio Leitner
It would be nice if you share the DPDK options used in OvS. On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 15:43:18 + "Tobias Hofmann \(tohofman\) via discuss" wrote: > Hello community, > > My team and I observe a strange behavior on our system with the > creation of dpdk ports in OVS. We have a CentOS 7 system with