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32 Keep Alive Sample Application
33 =============================
35 The Keep Alive application is a simple example of a
36 heartbeat/watchdog for packet processing cores. It demonstrates how
37 to detect 'failed' DPDK cores and notify a fault management entity
38 of this failure. Its purpose is to ensure the failure of the core
39 does not result in a fault that is not detectable by a management
46 The application demonstrates how to protect against 'silent outages'
47 on packet processing cores. A Keep Alive Monitor Agent Core (master)
48 monitors the state of packet processing cores (worker cores) by
49 dispatching pings at a regular time interval (default is 5ms) and
50 monitoring the state of the cores. Cores states are: Alive, MIA, Dead
51 or Buried. MIA indicates a missed ping, and Dead indicates two missed
52 pings within the specified time interval. When a core is Dead, a
53 callback function is invoked to restart the packet processing core;
54 A real life application might use this callback function to notify a
55 higher level fault management entity of the core failure in order to
56 take the appropriate corrective action.
58 Note: Only the worker cores are monitored. A local (on the host) mechanism
59 or agent to supervise the Keep Alive Monitor Agent Core DPDK core is required
60 to detect its failure.
62 Note: This application is based on the :doc:`l2_forward_real_virtual`. As
63 such, the initialization and run-time paths are very similar to those
64 of the L2 forwarding application.
66 Compiling the Application
67 -------------------------
69 To compile the application:
71 #. Go to the sample application directory:
73 .. code-block:: console
75 export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk cd ${RTE_SDK}/examples/keep_alive
77 #. Set the target (a default target is used if not specified). For example:
79 .. code-block:: console
81 export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
83 See the *DPDK Getting Started Guide* for possible RTE_TARGET values.
85 #. Build the application:
87 .. code-block:: console
91 Running the Application
92 -----------------------
94 The application has a number of command line options:
96 .. code-block:: console
98 ./build/l2fwd-keepalive [EAL options] \
99 -- -p PORTMASK [-q NQ] [-K PERIOD] [-T PERIOD]
103 * ``p PORTMASK``: A hexadecimal bitmask of the ports to configure
105 * ``q NQ``: A number of queues (=ports) per lcore (default is 1)
107 * ``K PERIOD``: Heartbeat check period in ms(5ms default; 86400 max)
109 * ``T PERIOD``: statistics will be refreshed each PERIOD seconds (0 to
110 disable, 10 default, 86400 maximum).
112 To run the application in linuxapp environment with 4 lcores, 16 ports
113 8 RX queues per lcore and a ping interval of 10ms, issue the command:
115 .. code-block:: console
117 ./build/l2fwd-keepalive -l 0-3 -n 4 -- -q 8 -p ffff -K 10
119 Refer to the *DPDK Getting Started Guide* for general information on
120 running applications and the Environment Abstraction Layer (EAL)
127 The following sections provide some explanation of the The
128 Keep-Alive/'Liveliness' conceptual scheme. As mentioned in the
129 overview section, the initialization and run-time paths are very
130 similar to those of the :doc:`l2_forward_real_virtual`.
132 The Keep-Alive/'Liveliness' conceptual scheme:
134 * A Keep- Alive Agent Runs every N Milliseconds.
136 * DPDK Cores respond to the keep-alive agent.
138 * If keep-alive agent detects time-outs, it notifies the
139 fault management entity through a callback function.
141 The following sections provide some explanation of the code aspects
142 that are specific to the Keep Alive sample application.
144 The keepalive functionality is initialized with a struct
145 rte_keepalive and the callback function to invoke in the
150 rte_global_keepalive_info = rte_keepalive_create(&dead_core, NULL);
151 if (rte_global_keepalive_info == NULL)
152 rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "keepalive_create() failed");
154 The function that issues the pings keepalive_dispatch_pings()
155 is configured to run every check_period milliseconds.
159 if (rte_timer_reset(&hb_timer,
160 (check_period * rte_get_timer_hz()) / 1000,
163 &rte_keepalive_dispatch_pings,
164 rte_global_keepalive_info
166 rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Keepalive setup failure.\n");
168 The rest of the initialization and run-time path follows
169 the same paths as the the L2 forwarding application. The only
170 addition to the main processing loop is the mark alive
171 functionality and the example random failures.
175 rte_keepalive_mark_alive(&rte_global_keepalive_info);
176 cur_tsc = rte_rdtsc();
178 /* Die randomly within 7 secs for demo purposes.. */
179 if (cur_tsc - tsc_initial > tsc_lifetime)
182 The rte_keepalive_mark_alive function simply sets the core state to alive.
187 rte_keepalive_mark_alive(struct rte_keepalive *keepcfg)
189 keepcfg->state_flags[rte_lcore_id()] = ALIVE;