The main difference from the L2 Forwarding sample application is that the forwarding decision
is made based on information read from the input packet.
-The lookup method is either hash-based or LPM-based and is selected at compile time. When the selected lookup method is hash-based,
+The lookup method is either hash-based or LPM-based and is selected at run time. When the selected lookup method is hash-based,
a hash object is used to emulate the flow classification stage.
The hash object is used in correlation with a flow table to map each input packet to its flow at runtime.
Running the Application
-----------------------
-The application has a number of command line options:
+The application has a number of command line options::
-.. code-block:: console
+ ./l3fwd [EAL options] -- -p PORTMASK
+ [-P]
+ [-E]
+ [-L]
+ --config(port,queue,lcore)[,(port,queue,lcore)]
+ [--eth-dest=X,MM:MM:MM:MM:MM:MM]
+ [--enable-jumbo [--max-pkt-len PKTLEN]]
+ [--no-numa]
+ [--hash-entry-num]
+ [--ipv6]
+ [--parse-ptype]
+
+Where,
- ./build/l3fwd [EAL options] -- -p PORTMASK [-P] --config(port,queue,lcore)[,(port,queue,lcore)] [--enable-jumbo [--max-pkt-len PKTLEN]] [--no-numa][--hash-entry-num][--ipv6] [--parse-ptype]
+* ``-p PORTMASK:`` Hexadecimal bitmask of ports to configure
-where,
+* ``-P:`` Optional, sets all ports to promiscuous mode so that packets are accepted regardless of the packet's Ethernet MAC destination address.
+ Without this option, only packets with the Ethernet MAC destination address set to the Ethernet address of the port are accepted.
-* -p PORTMASK: Hexadecimal bitmask of ports to configure
+* ``-E:`` Optional, enable exact match.
-* -P: optional, sets all ports to promiscuous mode so that packets are accepted regardless of the packet's Ethernet MAC destination address.
- Without this option, only packets with the Ethernet MAC destination address set to the Ethernet address of the port are accepted.
+* ``-L:`` Optional, enable longest prefix match.
-* --config (port,queue,lcore)[,(port,queue,lcore)]: determines which queues from which ports are mapped to which cores
+* ``--config (port,queue,lcore)[,(port,queue,lcore)]:`` Determines which queues from which ports are mapped to which cores.
-* --enable-jumbo: optional, enables jumbo frames
+* ``--eth-dest=X,MM:MM:MM:MM:MM:MM:`` Optional, ethernet destination for port X.
-* --max-pkt-len: optional, maximum packet length in decimal (64-9600)
+* ``--enable-jumbo:`` Optional, enables jumbo frames.
-* --no-numa: optional, disables numa awareness
+* ``--max-pkt-len:`` Optional, under the premise of enabling jumbo, maximum packet length in decimal (64-9600).
-* --hash-entry-num: optional, specifies the hash entry number in hexadecimal to be setup
+* ``--no-numa:`` Optional, disables numa awareness.
-* --ipv6: optional, set it if running ipv6 packets
+* ``--hash-entry-num:`` Optional, specifies the hash entry number in hexadecimal to be setup.
-* --parse-ptype: optional, set it if use software way to analyze packet type
+* ``--ipv6:`` Optional, set if running ipv6 packets.
-For example, consider a dual processor socket platform where cores 0-7 and 16-23 appear on socket 0, while cores 8-15 and 24-31 appear on socket 1.
-Let's say that the programmer wants to use memory from both NUMA nodes, the platform has only two ports, one connected to each NUMA node,
-and the programmer wants to use two cores from each processor socket to do the packet processing.
+* ``--parse-ptype:`` Optional, set to use software to analyze packet type. Without this option, hardware will check the packet type.
-To enable L3 forwarding between two ports, using two cores, cores 1 and 2, from each processor,
-while also taking advantage of local memory access by optimizing around NUMA, the programmer must enable two queues from each port,
-pin to the appropriate cores and allocate memory from the appropriate NUMA node. This is achieved using the following command:
+For example, consider a dual processor socket platform with 8 physical cores, where cores 0-7 and 16-23 appear on socket 0,
+while cores 8-15 and 24-31 appear on socket 1.
+
+To enable L3 forwarding between two ports, assuming that both ports are in the same socket, using two cores, cores 1 and 2,
+(which are in the same socket too), use the following command:
.. code-block:: console
- ./build/l3fwd -c 606 -n 4 -- -p 0x3 --config="(0,0,1),(0,1,2),(1,0,9),(1,1,10)"
+ ./build/l3fwd -l 1,2 -n 4 -- -p 0x3 --config="(0,0,1),(1,0,2)"
In this command:
-* The -c option enables cores 0, 1, 2, 3
+* The -l option enables cores 1, 2
* The -p option enables ports 0 and 1
-* The --config option enables two queues on each port and maps each (port,queue) pair to a specific core.
- Logic to enable multiple RX queues using RSS and to allocate memory from the correct NUMA nodes
- is included in the application and is done transparently.
+* The --config option enables one queue on each port and maps each (port,queue) pair to a specific core.
The following table shows the mapping in this example:
+----------+-----------+-----------+-------------------------------------+
| **Port** | **Queue** | **lcore** | **Description** |
| | | | |
+----------+-----------+-----------+-------------------------------------+
-| 0 | 0 | 0 | Map queue 0 from port 0 to lcore 0. |
-| | | | |
-+----------+-----------+-----------+-------------------------------------+
-| 0 | 1 | 2 | Map queue 1 from port 0 to lcore 2. |
-| | | | |
-+----------+-----------+-----------+-------------------------------------+
-| 1 | 0 | 1 | Map queue 0 from port 1 to lcore 1. |
+| 0 | 0 | 1 | Map queue 0 from port 0 to lcore 1. |
| | | | |
+----------+-----------+-----------+-------------------------------------+
-| 1 | 1 | 3 | Map queue 1 from port 1 to lcore 3. |
+| 1 | 0 | 2 | Map queue 0 from port 1 to lcore 2. |
| | | | |
+----------+-----------+-----------+-------------------------------------+
int ret = 0;
union ipv4_5tuple_host key;
- ipv4_hdr = (uint8_t \*)ipv4_hdr + offsetof(struct ipv4_hdr, time_to_live);
+ ipv4_hdr = (uint8_t *)ipv4_hdr + offsetof(struct ipv4_hdr, time_to_live);
m128i data = _mm_loadu_si128(( m128i*)(ipv4_hdr));