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L3 Forwarding in a Virtualization Environment Sample Application
================================================================
Compiling the Application
-------------------------
-To compile the application:
+To compile the sample application see :doc:`compiling`.
-#. Go to the sample application directory:
-
- .. code-block:: console
-
- export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk
- cd ${RTE_SDK}/examples/l3fwd-vf
-
-#. Set the target (a default target is used if not specified). For example:
-
- .. code-block:: console
-
- export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
-
- See the *DPDK Getting Started Guide* for possible RTE_TARGET values.
-
-#. Build the application:
-
- .. code-block:: console
-
- make
-
-.. note::
-
- The compiled application is written to the build subdirectory.
- To have the application written to a different location,
- the O=/path/to/build/directory option may be specified in the make command.
+The application is located in the ``l3fwd-vf`` sub-directory.
Running the Application
-----------------------
* --no-numa: optional, disables numa awareness
-For example, consider a dual processor socket platform where cores 0,2,4,6, 8, and 10 appear on socket 0,
-while cores 1,3,5,7,9, and 11 appear on socket 1.
-Let's say that the programmer wants to use memory from both NUMA nodes,
-the platform has only two ports and the programmer wants to use one core from each processor socket to do the packet processing
-since only one Rx/Tx queue pair can be used in virtualization mode.
+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, using one core from each processor,
-while also taking advantage of local memory accesses by optimizing around NUMA,
-the programmer can pin to the appropriate cores and allocate memory from the appropriate NUMA node.
-This is achieved using the following command:
+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-vf -c 0x03 -n 3 -- -p 0x3 --config="(0,0,0),(1,0,1)"
+ ./build/l3fwd-vf -l 1,2 -n 4 -- -p 0x3 --config="(0,0,1),(1,0,2)"
In this command:
-* The -c option enables cores 0 and 1
+* The -l option enables cores 1 and 2
* The -p option enables ports 0 and 1
* The --config option enables one queue 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 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 | 0 | 1 | Map queue 0 from port 0 to lcore 1 |
| | | | |
+----------+-----------+-----------+------------------------------------+
- | 1 | 1 | 1 | Map queue 0 from port 1 to lcore 1 |
+ | 1 | 0 | 2 | Map queue 0 from port 1 to lcore 2 |
| | | | |
+----------+-----------+-----------+------------------------------------+
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