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VMDQ and DCB Forwarding Sample Application
==========================================
The VMDQ and DCB Forwarding sample application is a simple example of packet processing using the DPDK.
-The application performs L2 forwarding using VMDQ and DCB to divide the incoming traffic into 128 queues.
-The traffic splitting is performed in hardware by the VMDQ and DCB features of the Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller.
+The application performs L2 forwarding using VMDQ and DCB to divide the incoming traffic into queues.
+The traffic splitting is performed in hardware by the VMDQ and DCB features of the Intel® 82599 and X710/XL710 Ethernet Controllers.
Overview
--------
This sample application can be used as a starting point for developing a new application that is based on the DPDK and
uses VMDQ and DCB for traffic partitioning.
-The VMDQ and DCB filters work on VLAN traffic to divide the traffic into 128 input queues on the basis of the VLAN ID field and
-VLAN user priority field.
-VMDQ filters split the traffic into 16 or 32 groups based on the VLAN ID.
-Then, DCB places each packet into one of either 4 or 8 queues within that group, based upon the VLAN user priority field.
-
-In either case, 16 groups of 8 queues, or 32 groups of 4 queues, the traffic can be split into 128 hardware queues on the NIC,
-each of which can be polled individually by a DPDK application.
+The VMDQ and DCB filters work on MAC and VLAN traffic to divide the traffic into input queues on the basis of the Destination MAC
+address, VLAN ID and VLAN user priority fields.
+VMDQ filters split the traffic into 16 or 32 groups based on the Destination MAC and VLAN ID.
+Then, DCB places each packet into one of queues within that group, based upon the VLAN user priority field.
All traffic is read from a single incoming port (port 0) and output on port 1, without any processing being performed.
-The traffic is split into 128 queues on input, where each thread of the application reads from multiple queues.
-For example, when run with 8 threads, that is, with the -c FF option, each thread receives and forwards packets from 16 queues.
+With Intel® 82599 NIC, for example, the traffic is split into 128 queues on input, where each thread of the application reads from
+multiple queues. When run with 8 threads, that is, with the -c FF option, each thread receives and forwards packets from 16 queues.
-As supplied, the sample application configures the VMDQ feature to have 16 pools with 8 queues each as indicated in :numref:`figure_vmdq_dcb_example`.
-The Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller NIC also supports the splitting of traffic into 32 pools of 4 queues each and
-this can be used by changing the NUM_POOLS parameter in the supplied code.
-The NUM_POOLS parameter can be passed on the command line, after the EAL parameters:
+As supplied, the sample application configures the VMDQ feature to have 32 pools with 4 queues each as indicated in :numref:`figure_vmdq_dcb_example`.
+The Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller NIC also supports the splitting of traffic into 16 pools of 8 queues. While the
+Intel® X710 or XL710 Ethernet Controller NICs support many configurations of VMDQ pools of 4 or 8 queues each. For simplicity, only 16
+or 32 pools is supported in this sample. And queues numbers for each VMDQ pool can be changed by setting RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_QUEUE_NUM_PER_VM
+in config/rte_config.h file.
+The nb-pools, nb-tcs and enable-rss parameters can be passed on the command line, after the EAL parameters:
.. code-block:: console
- ./build/vmdq_dcb [EAL options] -- -p PORTMASK --nb-pools NP
+ ./<build_dir>/examples/dpdk-vmdq_dcb [EAL options] -- -p PORTMASK --nb-pools NP --nb-tcs TC --enable-rss
-where, NP can be 16 or 32.
+where, NP can be 16 or 32, TC can be 4 or 8, rss is disabled by default.
.. _figure_vmdq_dcb_example:
In Linux* user space, the application can display statistics with the number of packets received on each queue.
-To have the application display the statistics, send a SIGHUP signal to the running application process, as follows:
-
-where, <pid> is the process id of the application process.
+To have the application display the statistics, send a SIGHUP signal to the running application process.
The VMDQ and DCB Forwarding sample application is in many ways simpler than the L2 Forwarding application
(see :doc:`l2_forward_real_virtual`)
Compiling the Application
-------------------------
-#. Go to the examples directory:
-
- .. code-block:: console
-
- export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk
- cd ${RTE_SDK}/examples/vmdq_dcb
-
-#. Set the target (a default target is used if not specified). For example:
- .. code-block:: console
- export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
+To compile the sample application see :doc:`compiling`.
- See the *DPDK Getting Started Guide* for possible RTE_TARGET values.
-
-#. Build the application:
-
- .. code-block:: console
-
- make
+The application is located in the ``vmdq_dcb`` sub-directory.
Running the Application
-----------------------
-To run the example in a linuxapp environment:
+To run the example in a linux environment:
.. code-block:: console
- user@target:~$ ./build/vmdq_dcb -c f -n 4 -- -p 0x3 --nb-pools 16
+ user@target:~$ ./<build_dir>/examples/dpdk-vmdq_dcb -l 0-3 -n 4 -- -p 0x3 --nb-pools 32 --nb-tcs 4
Refer to the *DPDK Getting Started Guide* for general information on running applications and
the Environment Abstraction Layer (EAL) options.
Initially in the application,
a default structure is provided for VMDQ and DCB configuration to be filled in later by the application.
-.. code-block:: c
-
- /* empty vmdq+dcb configuration structure. Filled in programmatically */
-
- static const struct rte_eth_conf vmdq_dcb_conf_default = {
- .rxmode = {
- .mq_mode = ETH_VMDQ_DCB,
- .split_hdr_size = 0,
- .header_split = 0, /**< Header Split disabled */
- .hw_ip_checksum = 0, /**< IP checksum offload disabled */
- .hw_vlan_filter = 0, /**< VLAN filtering disabled */
- .jumbo_frame = 0, /**< Jumbo Frame Support disabled */
- },
-
- .txmode = {
- .mq_mode = ETH_DCB_NONE,
- },
-
- .rx_adv_conf = {
- /*
- * should be overridden separately in code with
- * appropriate values
- */
-
- .vmdq_dcb_conf = {
- .nb_queue_pools = ETH_16_POOLS,
- .enable_default_pool = 0,
- .default_pool = 0,
- .nb_pool_maps = 0,
- .pool_map = {{0, 0},},
- .dcb_queue = {0},
- },
- },
- };
+.. literalinclude:: ../../../examples/vmdq_dcb/main.c
+ :language: c
+ :start-after: Empty vmdq+dcb configuration structure. Filled in programmatically. 8<
+ :end-before: >8 End of empty vmdq+dcb configuration structure.
The get_eth_conf() function fills in an rte_eth_conf structure with the appropriate values,
based on the global vlan_tags array,
and dividing up the possible user priority values equally among the individual queues
-(also referred to as traffic classes) within each pool, that is,
-if the number of pools is 32, then the user priority fields are allocated two to a queue.
+(also referred to as traffic classes) within each pool. With Intel® 82599 NIC,
+if the number of pools is 32, then the user priority fields are allocated 2 to a queue.
If 16 pools are used, then each of the 8 user priority fields is allocated to its own queue within the pool.
+With Intel® X710/XL710 NICs, if number of tcs is 4, and number of queues in pool is 8,
+then the user priority fields are allocated 2 to one tc, and a tc has 2 queues mapping to it, then
+RSS will determine the destination queue in 2.
For the VLAN IDs, each one can be allocated to possibly multiple pools of queues,
so the pools parameter in the rte_eth_vmdq_dcb_conf structure is specified as a bitmask value.
+For destination MAC, each VMDQ pool will be assigned with a MAC address. In this sample, each VMDQ pool
+is assigned to the MAC like 52:54:00:12:<port_id>:<pool_id>, that is,
+the MAC of VMDQ pool 2 on port 1 is 52:54:00:12:01:02.
-.. code-block:: c
-
- const uint16_t vlan_tags[] = {
- 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
- 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
- 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,
- 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
- };
-
-
- /* Builds up the correct configuration for vmdq+dcb based on the vlan tags array
- * given above, and the number of traffic classes available for use. */
-
- static inline int
- get_eth_conf(struct rte_eth_conf *eth_conf, enum rte_eth_nb_pools num_pools)
- {
- struct rte_eth_vmdq_dcb_conf conf;
- unsigned i;
-
- if (num_pools != ETH_16_POOLS && num_pools != ETH_32_POOLS ) return -1;
-
- conf.nb_queue_pools = num_pools;
- conf.enable_default_pool = 0;
- conf.default_pool = 0; /* set explicit value, even if not used */
- conf.nb_pool_maps = sizeof( vlan_tags )/sizeof( vlan_tags[ 0 ]);
-
- for (i = 0; i < conf.nb_pool_maps; i++){
- conf.pool_map[i].vlan_id = vlan_tags[ i ];
- conf.pool_map[i].pools = 1 << (i % num_pools);
- }
-
- for (i = 0; i < ETH_DCB_NUM_USER_PRIORITIES; i++){
- conf.dcb_queue[i] = (uint8_t)(i % (NUM_QUEUES/num_pools));
- }
-
- (void) rte_memcpy(eth_conf, &vmdq_dcb_conf_default, sizeof(\*eth_conf));
- (void) rte_memcpy(ð_conf->rx_adv_conf.vmdq_dcb_conf, &conf, sizeof(eth_conf->rx_adv_conf.vmdq_dcb_conf));
+.. literalinclude:: ../../../examples/vmdq_dcb/main.c
+ :language: c
+ :start-after: Dividing up the possible user priority values. 8<
+ :end-before: >8 End of dividing up the possible user priority values.
- return 0;
- }
+.. literalinclude:: ../../../examples/vmdq_dcb/main.c
+ :language: c
+ :start-after: Set mac for each pool. 8<
+ :end-before: >8 End of set mac for each pool.
+ :dedent: 1
Once the network port has been initialized using the correct VMDQ and DCB values,
the initialization of the port's RX and TX hardware rings is performed similarly to that
Statistics Display
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-When run in a linuxapp environment,
+When run in a linux environment,
the VMDQ and DCB Forwarding sample application can display statistics showing the number of packets read from each RX queue.
This is provided by way of a signal handler for the SIGHUP signal,
which simply prints to standard output the packet counts in grid form.