On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 22:50:40 -0700
Jack Humphries <j...@chillysky.com> wrote:

> 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).

If you are going to use interrupts you need to have MSI-X to get per-queue 
interrupts.
The igb_uio driver doesn't support this; you need to use vfio-pci in kernel to 
get queue interrupts.

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