.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation .. _getting_started: Getting Started =============== This documentation is described for Ubuntu 16.04 and later. Setup ----- Reserving Hugepages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hugepages must be enabled for running DPDK with high performance. Hugepage support is required to reserve large amount size of pages, 2MB or 1GB per page, to less TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffers) and to reduce cache miss. Less TLB means that it reduce the time for translating virtual address to physical. Hugepage reservation might be different for 2MB or 1GB. For 1GB page, hugepage setting must be activated while booting system. It must be defined in boot loader configuration, usually is ``/etc/default/grub``. Add an entry to define pagesize and the number of pages. Here is an example. ``hugepagesz`` is for the size and ``hugepages`` is for the number of pages. .. code-block:: console # /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=8" .. note:: 1GB hugepages might not be supported in your machine. It depends on that CPUs support 1GB pages or not. You can check it by referring ``/proc/cpuinfo``. If it is supported, you can find ``pdpe1gb`` in the ``flags`` attribute. .. code-block:: console $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | pdpe1gb For 2MB page, you can activate hugepages while booting or at anytime after system is booted. Define hugepages setting in ``/etc/default/grub`` to activate it while booting, or overwrite the number of 2MB hugepages as following. .. code-block:: console $ echo 1024 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages In this case, 1024 pages of 2MB (totally 2048 MB) are reserved. Mount hugepages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Make the memory available for using hugepages from DPDK. .. code-block:: console $ mkdir /mnt/huge $ mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge It is also available while booting by adding a configuration of mount point in ``/etc/fstab``, or after booted. The mount point for 2MB or 1GB can be made permanent accross reboot. For 2MB, it is no need to declare the size of hugepages explicity. .. code-block:: console # /etc/fstab nodev /mnt/huge hugetlbfs defaults 0 0 For 1GB, the size of hugepage must be specified. .. code-block:: console # /etc/fstab nodev /mnt/huge_1GB hugetlbfs pagesize=1GB 0 0 Disable ASLR ~~~~~~~~~~~~ SPP is a DPDK multi-process application and there are a number of `limitations `_ . Address-Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a security feature for memory protection, but may cause a failure of memory mapping while starting multi-process application as discussed in `dpdk-dev `_ . ASLR can be disabled by assigning ``kernel.randomize_va_space`` to ``0``, or be enabled by assigning it to ``2``. .. code-block:: console # disable ASLR $ sudo sysctl -w kernel.randomize_va_space=0 # enable ASLR $ sudo sysctl -w kernel.randomize_va_space=2 You can check the value as following. .. code-block:: console $ sysctl -n kernel.randomize_va_space .. _install_dpdk_spp: Install DPDK and SPP -------------------- Before using SPP, you need to install DPDK. In this document, briefly describ how to install and setup DPDK. Refer to `DPDK documentation `_ for more details. For Linux, see `Getting Started Guide for Linux `_ . DPDK ~~~~ Clone repository and compile DPDK in any directory. .. code-block:: console $ cd /path/to/any $ git clone http://dpdk.org/git/dpdk To compile DPDK, required to install libnuma-devel library. .. code-block:: console $ sudo apt install libnuma-dev Python and pip are also required if not installed. .. code-block:: console # Python2 $ sudo apt install python python-pip # Python3 $ sudo apt install python3 python3-pip SPP provides libpcap-based PMD for dumping packet to a file or retrieve it from the file. To use PCAP PMD, install ``libpcap-dev`` and enable it. ``text2pcap`` is also required for creating pcap file which is included in ``wireshark``. .. code-block:: console $ sudo apt install libpcap-dev $ sudo apt install wireshark PCAP is disabled by default in DPDK configuration. ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_PCAP`` and ``CONFIG_RTE_PORT_PCAP`` define the configuration and enabled it to ``y``. .. code-block:: console # dpdk/config/common_base CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_PCAP=y ... CONFIG_RTE_PORT_PCAP=y Compile DPDK with target environment. .. code-block:: console $ cd dpdk $ export RTE_SDK=$(pwd) $ export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc # depends on your env $ make install T=$RTE_TARGET SPP ~~~ Clone repository and compile SPP in any directory. .. code-block:: console $ cd /path/to/any $ git clone http://dpdk.org/git/apps/spp $ cd spp $ make # Confirm that $RTE_SDK and $RTE_TARGET are set Python 2 or 3 ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You need to install Python for using usertools of DPDK or SPP controller. DPDK supports both of Python2 and 3. Howevrer, Python2 will not be maintained after 2020 and SPP is going to update only supporting Python3. In SPP, it supports both of Python2 and 3 without spp-ctl currently, but is going to support only Python3 before the end of 2019. Binding Network Ports to DPDK ----------------------------- Network ports must be bound to DPDK with a UIO (Userspace IO) driver. UIO driver is for mapping device memory to userspace and registering interrupts. UIO Drivers ~~~~~~~~~~~ You usually use the standard ``uio_pci_generic`` for many use cases or ``vfio-pci`` for more robust and secure cases. Both of drivers are included by default in modern Linux kernel. .. code-block:: console # Activate uio_pci_generic $ sudo modprobe uio_pci_generic # or vfio-pci $ sudo modprobe vfio-pci You can also use kmod included in DPDK instead of ``uio_pci_generic`` or ``vfio-pci``. .. code-block:: console $ sudo modprobe uio $ sudo insmod kmod/igb_uio.ko Binding Network Ports ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once UIO driver is activated, bind network ports with the driver. DPDK provides ``usertools/dpdk-devbind.py`` for managing devices. Find ports for binding to DPDK by running the tool with ``-s`` option. .. code-block:: console $ $RTE_SDK/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --status Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver ============================================ Network devices using kernel driver =================================== 0000:29:00.0 '82571EB ... 10bc' if=enp41s0f0 drv=e1000e unused= 0000:29:00.1 '82571EB ... 10bc' if=enp41s0f1 drv=e1000e unused= 0000:2a:00.0 '82571EB ... 10bc' if=enp42s0f0 drv=e1000e unused= 0000:2a:00.1 '82571EB ... 10bc' if=enp42s0f1 drv=e1000e unused= Other Network devices ===================== .... You can find network ports are bound to kernel driver and not to DPDK. To bind a port to DPDK, run ``dpdk-devbind.py`` with specifying a driver and a device ID. Device ID is a PCI address of the device or more friendly style like ``eth0`` found by ``ifconfig`` or ``ip`` command.. .. code-block:: console # Bind a port with 2a:00.0 (PCI address) ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --bind=uio_pci_generic 2a:00.0 # or eth0 ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --bind=uio_pci_generic eth0 After binding two ports, you can find it is under the DPDK driver and cannot find it by using ``ifconfig`` or ``ip``. .. code-block:: console $ $RTE_SDK/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -s Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver ============================================ 0000:2a:00.0 '82571EB ... 10bc' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=vfio-pci 0000:2a:00.1 '82571EB ... 10bc' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=vfio-pci Network devices using kernel driver =================================== 0000:29:00.0 '...' if=enp41s0f0 drv=e1000e unused=vfio-pci,uio_pci_generic 0000:29:00.1 '...' if=enp41s0f1 drv=e1000e unused=vfio-pci,uio_pci_generic Other Network devices ===================== .... Confirm DPDK is setup properly ------------------------------ You can confirm if you are ready to use DPDK by running DPDK's sample application. ``l2fwd`` is good choice to confirm it before SPP because it is very similar to SPP's worker process for forwarding. .. code-block:: console $ cd $RTE_SDK/examples/l2fwd $ make CC main.o LD l2fwd INSTALL-APP l2fwd INSTALL-MAP l2fwd.map In this case, run this application simply with just two options while DPDK has many kinds of options. - -l: core list - -p: port mask .. code-block:: console $ sudo ./build/app/l2fwd \ -l 1-2 \ -- -p 0x3 It must be separated with ``--`` to specify which option is for EAL or application. Refer to `L2 Forwarding Sample Application `_ for more details. Build Documentation ------------------- This documentation is able to be biult as HTML and PDF formats from make command. Before compiling the documentation, you need to install some of packages required to compile. For HTML documentation, install sphinx and additional theme. .. code-block:: console $ pip install sphinx $ pip install sphinx-rtd-theme For PDF, inkscape and latex packages are required. .. code-block:: console $ sudo apt install inkscape $ sudo apt install texlive-latex-extra $ sudo apt install texlive-latex-recommended HTML documentation is compiled by running make with ``doc-html``. This command launch sphinx for compiling HTML documents. Compiled HTML files are created in ``docs/guides/_build/html/`` and You can find the top page ``index.html`` in the directory. .. code-block:: console $ make doc-html PDF documentation is compiled with ``doc-pdf`` which runs latex for. Compiled PDF file is created as ``docs/guides/_build/html/SoftPatchPanel.pdf``. .. code-block:: console $ make doc-pdf You can also compile both of HTML and PDF documentations with ``doc`` or ``doc-all``. .. code-block:: console $ make doc # or $ make doc-all