156. Stats Check tests

The support of stats checks by Poll Mode Drivers consists of the ability of the driver to properly report statistics upon request. Such statistics should include number of packets and bytes sent and recieved, as well as the number of dropped packets and transmission errors.

Note

Maximum Packet Length = MTU(Maximum Transmission Unit) + 14(src mac + dst mac) + 4(CRC) e.g., 1518 = 1500 + 14 + 4

156.1. Prerequisites

If using vfio the kernel must be >= 3.6+ and VT-d must be enabled in bios.When using vfio, use the following commands to load the vfio driver and bind it to the device under test:

modprobe vfio
modprobe vfio-pci
usertools/dpdk-devbind.py --bind=vfio-pci device_bus_id

Assuming that ports 0 and 1 of the test target are directly connected to the traffic generator, launch the testpmd application with the following arguments:

./build/app/dpdk-testpmd -c ffffff -n 6 -- -i --portmask=0x3 --max-pkt-len=9600 \
--tx-offloads=0x00008000

The -n command is used to select the number of memory channels. It should match the number of memory channels on that setup.

Setting tx-offload to 0x8000 and the maximum packet length to 9600 (CRC included) makes input Jumbo Frames to be stored in multiple buffers by the hardware RX engine.

Start packet forwarding in the testpmd application with the start command. Then, for each port on the target make the Traffic Generator transmit a packet to the port of arbitrary size less than the MTU of the target port, checking that the same amount of frames and bytes are received back by the Traffic Generator from the port.

156.2. Functional Tests of Status Checks

Testing the support of Status Checks in Poll Mode Drivers consists of configuring the gathering the initial status of a port, sending a packet to that port, and checking the status of the port. The initial status and the new status are then compared for expected differences. The fields checked are RX-packets, RX-bytes, RX-errors, TX-packets, TX-errors, and TX-bytes.

156.3. Test Case: Status Checks

Check the initial state of the ports (Single example port shown):

testpmd> show port stats all
  ######################## NIC statistics for port 0  ########################
  RX-packets: 0        RX-missed: 0         RX-bytes:  0
  RX-errors: 0
  RX-nombuf:  0
  TX-packets: 0          TX-errors: 0          TX-bytes:  0

  Throughput (since last show)
  Rx-pps:            0
  Tx-pps:            0
  ############################################################################

Send a packet with size 50 bytes (Single example port show)

testpmd> show port stats all
  ######################## NIC statistics for port 0  ########################
  RX-packets: 1        RX-missed: 0         RX-bytes:  50
  RX-errors: 0
  RX-nombuf:  0
  TX-packets: 0          TX-errors: 0          TX-bytes:  0

  Throughput (since last show)
  Rx-pps:            0
  Tx-pps:            0
  ############################################################################

156.4. Functional Tests of xstats Checks

Testing the support of xstatus Checks in Poll Mode Drivers consists of configuring the gathering the initial status of a port, sending some packets to that port, and checking the xstatus of the port. This case will compare the initial xstatus and the new xstatus, and compare the xstats and stats result. The fields checked are RX-packets and TX-packets of each queue stats, RX-packets, RX-bytes, TX-packets and TX-bytes of each port stats, rx_good_packets and rx_good_bytes of each port xstats, tx_good_packets and tx_good_bytes of each port xstats, Intel® Ethernet 700 Series does not support hardware per queue stats, so we won’t check rx and tx per queue stats.

156.5. Test Case: PF xstatus Checks

  1. Bind two PF ports to pmd driver:

    ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci device_bus_id0 device_bus_id1

  2. Launch testpmd and enable rss:

    ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/dpdk-testpmd -c f -n 4 -- -i --rxq=4 --txq=4
testpmd> port config all rss all
testpmd> set fwd mac

  3. show the xstats before packet forwarding, all the value are 0.

  4. Start forward and send 100 packets with random src IP address, then stop forward.

  5. Check stats and xstats:

    testpmd> stop
Telling cores to stop...
Waiting for lcores to finish...

------- Forward Stats for RX Port= 0/Queue= 0 -> TX Port= 1/Queue= 0 -------
RX-packets: 29             TX-packets: 29             TX-dropped: 0

------- Forward Stats for RX Port= 0/Queue= 1 -> TX Port= 1/Queue= 1 -------
RX-packets: 21             TX-packets: 21             TX-dropped: 0

------- Forward Stats for RX Port= 0/Queue= 2 -> TX Port= 1/Queue= 2 -------
RX-packets: 24             TX-packets: 24             TX-dropped: 0

------- Forward Stats for RX Port= 0/Queue= 3 -> TX Port= 1/Queue= 3 -------
RX-packets: 26             TX-packets: 26             TX-dropped: 0

---------------------- Forward statistics for port 0  ----------------------
RX-packets: 100            RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 100
TX-packets: 0              TX-dropped: 0             TX-total: 0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------- Forward statistics for port 1  ----------------------
RX-packets: 0              RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 0
TX-packets: 100            TX-dropped: 0             TX-total: 100
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

+++++++++++++++ Accumulated forward statistics for all ports+++++++++++++++
RX-packets: 100            RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 100
TX-packets: 100            TX-dropped: 0             TX-total: 100
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

testpmd> show port stats all

######################## NIC statistics for port 0  ########################
RX-packets: 100        RX-missed: 0          RX-bytes:  6000
RX-errors: 0
RX-nombuf:  0
TX-packets: 0          TX-errors: 0          TX-bytes:  0

Throughput (since last show)
Rx-pps:            0          Rx-bps:            0
Tx-pps:            0          Tx-bps:            0
############################################################################

######################## NIC statistics for port 1  ########################
RX-packets: 0          RX-missed: 0          RX-bytes:  0
RX-errors: 0
RX-nombuf:  0
TX-packets: 100        TX-errors: 0          TX-bytes:  6000

Throughput (since last show)
Rx-pps:            0          Rx-bps:            0
Tx-pps:            0          Tx-bps:            0
############################################################################

testpmd> show port xstats all
###### NIC extended statistics for port 0
rx_good_packets: 100
tx_good_packets: 0
rx_good_bytes: 6000
tx_good_bytes: 0
......
rx_q0_packets: 0
rx_q0_bytes: 0
rx_q0_errors: 0
rx_q1_packets: 0
rx_q1_bytes: 0
rx_q1_errors: 0
rx_q2_packets: 0
rx_q2_bytes: 0
rx_q2_errors: 0
rx_q3_packets: 0
rx_q3_bytes: 0
rx_q3_errors: 0
tx_q0_packets: 0
tx_q0_bytes: 0
tx_q1_packets: 0
tx_q1_bytes: 0
tx_q2_packets: 0
tx_q2_bytes: 0
tx_q3_packets: 0
tx_q3_bytes: 0
......
###### NIC extended statistics for port 1
rx_good_packets: 0
tx_good_packets: 100
rx_good_bytes: 0
tx_good_bytes: 6000
rx_q0_packets: 0
rx_q0_bytes: 0
rx_q0_errors: 0
rx_q1_packets: 0
rx_q1_bytes: 0
rx_q1_errors: 0
rx_q2_packets: 0
rx_q2_bytes: 0
rx_q2_errors: 0
rx_q3_packets: 0
rx_q3_bytes: 0
rx_q3_errors: 0
tx_q0_packets: 0
tx_q0_bytes: 0
tx_q1_packets: 0
tx_q1_bytes: 0
tx_q2_packets: 0
tx_q2_bytes: 0
tx_q3_packets: 0
tx_q3_bytes: 0

verify rx_good_packets, RX-packets of port 0 and tx_good_packets, TX-packets of port 1 are both 100. rx_good_bytes, RX-bytes of port 0 and tx_good_bytes, TX-bytes of port 1 are the same. Intel® Ethernet 700 Series does not support hardware per queue stats, so rx_qx_packets and rx_qx_bytes are both 0. tx_qx_packets and tx_qx_bytes are both 0 too.

  1. Clear stats:

    testpmd> clear port stats all

  2. Check stats and xstats, verify rx_good_packets, RX-packets of port 0 and tx_good_packets, TX-packets of port 1 are both 0.

  3. Repeat above 4 and 5 steps.

  4. Clear xstats:

    testpmd> clear port xstats all

  5. Check stats and xstats, verify rx_good_packets, RX-packets of port 0 and tx_good_packets, TX-packets of port 1 are both 0.

156.6. Test Case: VF xstats Checks

  1. Create one VF port on a kernel PF, then bind the VF to pmd driver:

    echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/device_bus_id/sriov_numvfs
./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -s
./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci vf_bus_id

  2. Launch testpmd on the VF and enable RSS:

    if test IAVF, start up VF port:

    ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/dpdk-testpmd -c f -n 4 -- -i --rxq=4 --txq=4
testpmd> port config all rss all
testpmd> set fwd mac

    if test DCF, set VF port to dcf and start up:

    Enable kernel trust mode:

   ip link set $PF_INTF vf 0 trust on

./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/dpdk-testpmd -c f -n 4 -a 0000:18:01.0,cap=dcf -- -i --rxq=4 --txq=4

Note

make dcf as full feature pmd is dpdk22.07 feature, and only support E810 series nic.

3. Then run the same steps of PF xstats Checks, get same result. note: because one port forwarding packets, so check rx and tx both in port 0.

156.7. Test Case: PF negative xstats check

  1. Blind the PF to vfio-pci:

    ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci {pf_pci}

  2. Launch testpmd with default mtu:

    ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/dpdk-testpmd -c f -n 4 -- -i
testpmd> set fwd mac
testpmd> start
testpmd> clear port xstats all

  3. Set the mtu for the port where the data packet is sent:

    ifconfig ens7 mtu 5018

  4. Send jumbo frames:

    sendp(Ether(dst="00:00:00:00:01:00", src="52:00:00:00:00:00")/IP()/Raw(load="X"*4980), iface="ens7")

  5. Check port 0 xstats:

    Check rx port can not receive packet.
Check ``rx_errors`` and ``rx_oversize_errors`` increased, but other statistics are 0 for tx port.
testpmd> show port xstats 0
  ###### NIC extended statistics for port 0
  rx_good_packets: 0
  tx_good_packets: 0
  rx_good_bytes: 0
  tx_good_bytes: 0
  rx_missed_errors: 0
  rx_errors: 1
  tx_errors: 0
  rx_mbuf_allocation_errors: 0
  rx_q0_packets: 0
  rx_q0_bytes: 0
  rx_q0_errors: 0
  tx_q0_packets: 0
  tx_q0_bytes: 0
  rx_unicast_packets: 0
  rx_multicast_packets: 0
  rx_broadcast_packets: 0
  rx_dropped_packets: 0
  rx_unknown_protocol_packets: 0
  tx_unicast_packets: 0
  tx_multicast_packets: 0
  tx_broadcast_packets: 0
  tx_dropped_packets: 0
  tx_link_down_dropped: 0
  rx_crc_errors: 0
  rx_illegal_byte_errors: 0
  rx_error_bytes: 0
  mac_local_errors: 0
  mac_remote_errors: 0
  rx_len_errors: 0
  tx_xon_packets: 0
  rx_xon_packets: 0
  tx_xoff_packets: 0
  rx_xoff_packets: 0
  rx_size_64_packets: 0
  rx_size_65_to_127_packets: 0
  rx_size_128_to_255_packets: 0
  rx_size_256_to_511_packets: 0
  rx_size_512_to_1023_packets: 0
  rx_size_1024_to_1522_packets: 0
  rx_size_1523_to_max_packets: 0
  rx_undersized_errors: 0
  rx_oversize_errors: 1
  rx_mac_short_pkt_dropped: 0
  rx_fragmented_errors: 0
  rx_jabber_errors: 0
  tx_size_64_packets: 0
  tx_size_65_to_127_packets: 0
  tx_size_128_to_255_packets: 0
  tx_size_256_to_511_packets: 0
  tx_size_512_to_1023_packets: 0
  tx_size_1024_to_1522_packets: 0
  tx_size_1523_to_max_packets: 0

  6. Check port 1 xstats:

    Check all statistics are 0 for tx port.
testpmd> show port xstats 1
  ###### NIC extended statistics for port 1
  rx_good_packets: 0
  tx_good_packets: 0
  rx_good_bytes: 0
  tx_good_bytes: 0
  rx_missed_errors: 0
  rx_errors: 0
  tx_errors: 0
  rx_mbuf_allocation_errors: 0
  rx_q0_packets: 0
  rx_q0_bytes: 0
  rx_q0_errors: 0
  tx_q0_packets: 0
  tx_q0_bytes: 0
  rx_unicast_packets: 0
  rx_multicast_packets: 0
  rx_broadcast_packets: 0
  rx_dropped_packets: 0
  rx_unknown_protocol_packets: 0
  tx_unicast_packets: 0
  tx_multicast_packets: 0
  tx_broadcast_packets: 0
  tx_dropped_packets: 0
  tx_link_down_dropped: 0
  rx_crc_errors: 0
  rx_illegal_byte_errors: 0
  rx_error_bytes: 0
  mac_local_errors: 0
  mac_remote_errors: 0
  rx_len_errors: 0
  tx_xon_packets: 0
  rx_xon_packets: 0
  tx_xoff_packets: 0
  rx_xoff_packets: 0
  rx_size_64_packets: 0
  rx_size_65_to_127_packets: 0
  rx_size_128_to_255_packets: 0
  rx_size_256_to_511_packets: 0
  rx_size_512_to_1023_packets: 0
  rx_size_1024_to_1522_packets: 0
  rx_size_1523_to_max_packets: 0
  rx_undersized_errors: 0
  rx_oversize_errors: 0
  rx_mac_short_pkt_dropped: 0
  rx_fragmented_errors: 0
  rx_jabber_errors: 0
  tx_size_64_packets: 0
  tx_size_65_to_127_packets: 0
  tx_size_128_to_255_packets: 0
  tx_size_256_to_511_packets: 0
  tx_size_512_to_1023_packets: 0
  tx_size_1024_to_1522_packets: 0
  tx_size_1523_to_max_packets: 0