2021-10-31 22:50 (UTC-0700), Jack Humphries: > Hi folks, > > Hope all are well. I’m trying to enable interrupts in DPDK so that my network > receive thread can sleep on an epoll until packets arrive. I am using the > ixgbe kernel driver and igb_uio userspace driver with an Intel 82599ES 10Gbps > NIC. > > I'm doing roughly the following to enable the interrupts, but the epoll never > indicates that packets have arrived. The thread only handles packets when the > epoll times out. I don't even see interrupts arrive from the device when > monitoring /proc/interrupts. > > port_conf.intr_conf.rxq = 1; > > ... > > CHECK_EQ(rte_eth_dev_rx_intr_ctl_q(kPort, kQueue, RTE_EPOLL_PER_THREAD, > RTE_INTR_EVENT_ADD, nullptr), > 0); > CHECK_EQ(rte_eth_dev_rx_intr_enable(kPort, kQueue), 0); > > ... > > rte_epoll_event event; > while (true) { > int n = rte_epoll_wait(RTE_EPOLL_PER_THREAD, &event, /*maxevents=*/1, > /*timeout=*/1000); > if (n == 0) { > // Timeout expired. > } else { > // Received RX interrupt. > } > } > > Given that I don't see anything coming through in /proc/interrupts, I am > going to start digging through the ixgbe driver. However, I wanted to ask > here first to see if my setup is missing anything obvious. I based it closely > on the l3fwd-power example, though I haven't been able to get that example up > and running yet since my NIC only has one port plugged in right now and the > example requires two (COVID building restrictions). > > Thanks, > Jack Humphries
Hi Jack, Have you called rte_eth_dev_rx_intr_enable(port_id, queue_id)? Not sure about ixgbe, but vmxnet3 also requires rearming interrupts with it on each iteration before rte_epoll_wait(). This is what l3fwd-power does by the way (see turn_on_off_intr() function). + ixgbe maintainer just in case.