[dpdk-dev] Question about link up/down events and transmit queues

2015-03-10 Thread Matt Laswell
Just a bit more on this. We've found that when a link goes down, the TX descriptor ring appears to fill up with packets fairly quickly, and then calls to rte_eth_tx_burst() start returning zero. Our application handles this case, and frees the mbufs that could not be sent. However, when link is

[dpdk-dev] Question about link up/down events and transmit queues

2015-03-10 Thread Matt Laswell
Hey Folks, I'm running into an issue that I hope is obvious and simple. We're running DPDK 1.6.2 with an 82599 NIC. We find that if, while running traffic, we disconnect a port and then later reconnect it, we never regain the ability to transmit packets out of that port after it comes back up. S