History log of /freebsd-current/tools/tools/netmap/pkt-gen.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 42b38843 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove $FreeBSD$: one-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*+\s*\$FreeBSD\$.*$\n/


# 8c3b8c83 26-Apr-2023 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: pkt-gen: sync with upstream

Keep in sync with the recent upstream changes:

Fix compilation on 32-bit architectures
Update IP length, UDP length/checksum when size changes
Man page fixes

Submitted by: jlduran@gmail.com
MFC after: 7 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39760


# 506336f2 06-Mar-2023 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: pkt-gen: init all slots of every tx ring

sender_body() uses OPT_COPY to copy the frame into the destination slot
for the first 100,000 packets. Then it removes OPT_COPY to improve
performance. The function always starts with the first tx ring.

If multiple tx rings are in use, it is possible that the initial 100k
packets will only use the first ring. After OPT_COPY is removed, there
may come a time when the first ring is full and sender_body() will move
to the next ring which was never initialized. As a result it will send
all zero packets. (This was discovered when the receiving NIC reported
rx errors.)

Before any transmissions, step through every tx ring and set
NS_BUF_CHANGED on every slot. That will force send_packets() to
initialize the slot when first used. Since it only copies when
necessary, it performs better than always setting OPT_COPY. With this
change, there is no reason for the "drop copy" code.

Submitted by: Brian Poole <brian90013@gmail.com>
MFC after: 7 days


# 538c66ea 27-Feb-2023 Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: Fix compiler warnings in tools

- Remove write-only variables, or hide them in cases where their use is
conditional or commented out.
- Check for errors from cmd_apply() in nmreplay.
- Use ANSI C definitions.

Reviewed by: vmaffione
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38752


# eda82511 24-Dec-2022 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: pkt-gen: fix ifname before cmp in source_hwaddr

In source_hwaddr(), the configured ifname is compared against all
interfaces. However, in main(), the string 'netmap:' is prepended to the
interface string if no explicit type is given. Therefore the ifname will
not match any system interface and the source MAC address is always
empty.

Check for the leading 'netmap:' string and skip past it to match against
system interfaces. Note that 'tap:' and 'pcap:' devices strip the type
string from the ifname in main() so no further work is needed.

MFC after: 7 days
Submitted by: Brian Poole <brian90013@gmail.com>


# 08cb3ac7 09-Sep-2022 Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>

tools: Remove a double words

- s/to to/to/
- s/to to/to do/ in an error message

MFC after: 3 days


# 9a7abd93 24-Aug-2022 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

pkt-gen: flip IPv4 address in ping-pong mode

MFC after: 7 days


# 950cf4a2 15-Jun-2021 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: pkt-gen: fix compilation issue

Remove stray characters preventing the source code from being
compiled.

Fixes: 20d684ecc9d7 ("pkt-gen: Allow limiting received packets").
Submitted by: ar_semihalf.com
Reviewed by: vmaffione
Differential Revision: <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D###>


# 20d684ec 17-May-2021 Allan Jude <allanjude@FreeBSD.org>

pkt-gen: Allow limiting received packets

Makes pkg-gen quit after having received N packets, the same way it
already supports doing for sent packets.

Reviewed by: vmaffione
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
MFC after: 4 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30266


# 45c67e8f 02-Apr-2021 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: several typo fixes

No functional changes intended.


# 27bf5dd3 30-Mar-2021 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: pkt-gen: allow -Z and -z to be used together

These options are used for generating random source/destination
IP/ports within transmitted packets.

MFC after: 1 week


# d7493759 12-Jan-2021 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: pkt-gen: fix offset hex formatting

PR: 252594
Reported by: brpoole@vt.edu
MFC after: 3 days


# 4bfe1a4f 22-Nov-2020 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: pkt-gen: switch to libnetmap

Use the newer libnetmap (included in base) rather than the older
nm_open()/nm_close() defined in netmap_user.h


# 7eb32dc8 03-Oct-2020 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: tools: fix several compiler warnings

MFC after: 1 week


# ed188a7e 03-Oct-2020 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: pkt-gen: minor corrections to documentation

Submitted by: Brian Poole <brian90013@gmail.com>
MFC after: 3 days


# 760fa2ab 20-Oct-2019 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: minor misc improvements

- use ring->head rather than ring->cur in lb(8)
- use strlcat() rather than strncat()
- fix bandwidth computation in pkt-gen(8)

MFC after: 1 week


# 406e7723 01-Mar-2019 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: pkt-gen: fix bug in send_packets()

The send_packets() function was using ring->cur as index to scan
the transmit ring. This function may also set ring->cur ahead of
ring->head, in case no more slots are available. However, the function
also uses nm_ring_space() which looks at ring->head to check how many
slots are available. If ring->head and ring->cur are different, this
results in pkt-gen advancing ring->cur beyond ring->tail.

This patch fixes send_packets() (and similar source locations) to
use ring->head as a index, rather than using ring->cur.

MFC after: 1 week


# 9e53f3bd 07-Dec-2018 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

tools: netmap: pkt-gen: check packet length against interface MTU

Validate the value of the -l argument (packet length) against the MTU of the netmap port.
In case the netmap port does not refer to a physical interface (e.g. VALE port or pipe), then
the netmap buffer size is used as MTU.
This change also sets a better default value for the -M option, so that pkt-gen uses
the largest possible fragments in case of multi-slot packets.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18436


# 80ad548d 10-Nov-2018 Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione@FreeBSD.org>

netmap: pkt-gen: several updates from upstream

Various improvements to the netmap pkt-gen program:

- indentation fixes
- support for IPV6
- fixes to checksum computation
- support for NS_MOREFRAG
- rate limiting in ping mode

Reviewed by: bcr, 0mp
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17698


# b797f66c 13-Dec-2017 Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org>

netmap pkt-gen tool: Fix memset(3) argument order

Submitted by: Michael McConville <mmcco AT mykolab.com>
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon


# 37e3a6d3 16-Oct-2016 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

Import the current version of netmap, aligned with the one on github.

This commit, long overdue, contains contributions in the last 2 years
from Stefano Garzarella, Giuseppe Lettieri, Vincenzo Maffione, including:
+ fixes on monitor ports
+ the 'ptnet' virtual device driver, and ptnetmap backend, for
high speed virtual passthrough on VMs (bhyve fixes in an upcoming commit)
+ improved emulated netmap mode
+ more robust error handling
+ removal of stale code
+ various fixes to code and documentation (some mixup between RX and TX
parameters, and private and public variables)

We also include an additional tool, nmreplay, which is functionally
equivalent to tcpreplay but operating on netmap ports.


# 56717743 19-Apr-2015 Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>

Update pkt-gen to optionally use randomised source/destination
IPv4 addresses/ports.

When doing traffic testing of actual code that /does/ things to the
packet (rather than say, 'bridge.c'), it's typically a good idea to
use a variety of cache-busting and flow-tracking-busting packet
spreads. The pkt-gen method of testing an IP range was to walk
it linearly - which is fine, but not useful enough.

This can be used to completely randomize the source/destination
addresses (eg to test out flow-tracking-busting) and to keep the
destination fixed whilst randomising the source (eg to test out
what a DDoS may look like.)

Tested:

* Intel ixgbe 10G (82599) netmap

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2309
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.


# db6784f2 12-Feb-2015 George V. Neville-Neil <gnn@FreeBSD.org>

Silence a warning.


# f284c737 11-Oct-2014 George V. Neville-Neil <gnn@FreeBSD.org>

Add a new option, -P, to pkt-gen which reads a single packet from a stored
pcap file and transmits it instead of the default UDP packet.

Reviewed by: luigi
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 4bf50f18 16-Aug-2014 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

Update to the current version of netmap.
Mostly bugfixes or features developed in the past 6 months,
so this is a 10.1 candidate.

Basically no user API changes (some bugfixes in sys/net/netmap_user.h).

In detail:

1. netmap support for virtio-net, including in netmap mode.
Under bhyve and with a netmap backend [2] we reach over 1Mpps
with standard APIs (e.g. libpcap), and 5-8 Mpps in netmap mode.

2. (kernel) add support for multiple memory allocators, so we can
better partition physical and virtual interfaces giving access
to separate users. The most visible effect is one additional
argument to the various kernel functions to compute buffer
addresses. All netmap-supported drivers are affected, but changes
are mechanical and trivial

3. (kernel) simplify the prototype for *txsync() and *rxsync()
driver methods. All netmap drivers affected, changes mostly mechanical.

4. add support for netmap-monitor ports. Think of it as a mirroring
port on a physical switch: a netmap monitor port replicates traffic
present on the main port. Restrictions apply. Drive carefully.

5. if_lem.c: support for various paravirtualization features,
experimental and disabled by default.
Most of these are described in our ANCS'13 paper [1].
Paravirtualized support in netmap mode is new, and beats the
numbers in the paper by a large factor (under qemu-kvm,
we measured gues-host throughput up to 10-12 Mpps).

A lot of refactoring and additional documentation in the files
in sys/dev/netmap, but apart from #2 and #3 above, almost nothing
of this stuff is visible to other kernel parts.

Example programs in tools/tools/netmap have been updated with bugfixes
and to support more of the existing features.

This is meant to go into 10.1 so we plan an MFC before the Aug.22 deadline.

A lot of this code has been contributed by my colleagues at UNIPI,
including Giuseppe Lettieri, Vincenzo Maffione, Stefano Garzarella.

MFC after: 3 days.


# f0ea3689 14-Feb-2014 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

This new version of netmap brings you the following:

- netmap pipes, providing bidirectional blocking I/O while moving
100+ Mpps between processes using shared memory channels
(no mistake: over one hundred million. But mind you, i said
*moving* not *processing*);

- kqueue support (BHyVe needs it);

- improved user library. Just the interface name lets you select a NIC,
host port, VALE switch port, netmap pipe, and individual queues.
The upcoming netmap-enabled libpcap will use this feature.

- optional extra buffers associated to netmap ports, for applications
that need to buffer data yet don't want to make copies.

- segmentation offloading for the VALE switch, useful between VMs.

and a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.

My colleagues Giuseppe Lettieri and Vincenzo Maffione did a substantial
amount of work on these features so we owe them a big thanks.

There are some external repositories that can be of interest:

https://code.google.com/p/netmap
our public repository for netmap/VALE code, including
linux versions and other stuff that does not belong here,
such as python bindings.

https://code.google.com/p/netmap-libpcap
a clone of the libpcap repository with netmap support.
With this any libpcap client has access to most netmap
feature with no recompilation. E.g. tcpdump can filter
packets at 10-15 Mpps.

https://code.google.com/p/netmap-ipfw
a userspace version of ipfw+dummynet which uses netmap
to send/receive packets. Speed is up in the 7-10 Mpps
range per core for simple rulesets.

Both netmap-libpcap and netmap-ipfw will be merged upstream at some
point, but while this happens it is useful to have access to them.

And yes, this code will be merged soon. It is infinitely better
than the version currently in 10 and 9.

MFC after: 3 days


# f2637526 15-Jan-2014 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

netmap_user.h:
add separate rx/tx ring indexes
add ring specifier in nm_open device name

netmap.c, netmap_vale.c
more consistent errno numbers

netmap_generic.c
correctly handle failure in registering interfaces.

tools/tools/netmap/
massive cleanup of the example programs
(a lot of common code is now in netmap_user.h.)

nm_util.[ch] are going away soon.
pcap.c will also go when i commit the native netmap support for libpcap.


# 17885a7b 05-Jan-2014 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

It is 2014 and we have a new version of netmap.
Most relevant features:

- netmap emulation on any NIC, even those without native netmap support.

On the ixgbe we have measured about 4Mpps/core/queue in this mode,
which is still a lot more than with sockets/bpf.

- seamless interconnection of VALE switch, NICs and host stack.

If you disable accelerations on your NIC (say em0)

ifconfig em0 -txcsum -txcsum

you can use the VALE switch to connect the NIC and the host stack:

vale-ctl -h valeXX:em0

allowing sharing the NIC with other netmap clients.

- THE USER API HAS SLIGHTLY CHANGED (head/cur/tail pointers
instead of pointers/count as before). This was unavoidable to support,
in the future, multiple threads operating on the same rings.
Netmap clients require very small source code changes to compile again.
On the plus side, the new API should be easier to understand
and the internals are a lot simpler.

The manual page has been updated extensively to reflect the current
features and give some examples.

This is the result of work of several people including Giuseppe Lettieri,
Vincenzo Maffione, Michio Honda and myself, and has been financially
supported by EU projects CHANGE and OPENLAB, from NetApp University
Research Fund, NEC, and of course the Universita` di Pisa.


# fc6eb28b 09-Nov-2013 Hiren Panchasara <hiren@FreeBSD.org>

Minor spelling correction.


# ce3ee1e7 01-Nov-2013 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

update to the latest netmap snapshot.
This includes the following:
- use separate memory regions for VALE ports
- locking fixes
- some simplifications in the NIC-specific routines
- performance improvements for the VALE switch
- some new features in the pkt-gen test program
- documentation updates

There are small API changes that require programs to be recompiled
(NETMAP_API has been bumped so you will detect old binaries at runtime).

In particular:
- struct netmap_slot now is 16 bytes to support an extra pointer,
which may save one data copy when using VALE ports or VMs;
- the struct netmap_if has two extra fields;

MFC after: 3 days


# b303f675 05-Jun-2013 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

new features (mostly for testing netmap capabilities)

+ pkt-gen -f rx now remains active even when traffic stops
Previous behaviour (exit after 1 second of silence) can be
restored with the -W option

+ the -X option does a hexdump of the content of a packet (both tx and rx).
This can be useful to check what goes in and out.

+ the -I option instructs the sender to use indirect buffers
(not really useful other than to test the kernel module in the
VALE switch)


# 1cb4c501 30-May-2013 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

add support for rate-limiting in the sender (-R ...)

Obtained from: Giuseppe Lettieri


# f8e4e36a 16-Feb-2013 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

update the netmap example programs merging some common code in nm_util.c

pkt-gen now implements several functions (unlimited transmit, receive,
ping-pong) and can operate on a 'tap' device.


# d2a49f2c 04-Sep-2012 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Failure to open netmap device is unrecoverable.

There's no reason to "fail later" since there's nothing this tool can do in
netmap mode without /dev/netmap open.


# e5ecae38 08-Aug-2012 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Be more descriptive about poll error / timeout when transmitting.


# ef63ce39 08-Aug-2012 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Round displayed pps (instead of truncating)


# f95a30bd 06-Jul-2012 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Allow continuous packet transmission (via -t 0)

Also add a missing check for the cancel flag while waiting for the first
packet in receive mode.


# 66a698c9 06-Jul-2012 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Also report tx bandwidth with Ethernet overhead


# 3fe77e68 06-Jul-2012 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Allow threads to finish up when terminated by user

Set a flag and allow worker threads to finish upon ^C, instead of
immediately cancelling them, so that final packet count and rate
stats can be displayed.


# 8585b1b8 03-Jul-2012 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Update comment to reflect function's actual operation


# 99fb123f 03-May-2012 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

- add code to run pkt-gen on top of libpcap so we can see the
difference from a native API

- add some testing options, such as conditional prefetching and
packet copy.


# 64ae02c3 27-Feb-2012 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

A bunch of netmap fixes:

USERSPACE:
1. add support for devices with different number of rx and tx queues;

2. add better support for zero-copy operation, adding an extra field
to the netmap ring to indicate how many buffers we have already processed
but not yet released (with help from Eddie Kohler);

3. The two changes above unfortunately require an API change, so while
at it add a version field and some spares to the ioctl() argument
to help detect mismatches.

4. update the manual page for the two changes above;

5. update sample applications in tools/tools/netmap

KERNEL:

1. simplify the internal structures moving the global wait queues
to the 'struct netmap_adapter';

2. simplify the functions that map kring<->nic ring indexes

3. normalize device-specific code, helps mainteinance;

4. start exploring the impact of micro-optimizations (prefetch etc.)
in the ixgbe driver.
Use 'legacy' descriptors on the tx ring and prefetch slots gives
about 20% speedup at 900 MHz. Another 7-10% would come from removing
the explict calls to bus_dmamap* in the core (they are effectively
NOPs in this case, but it takes expensive load of the per-buffer
dma maps to figure out that they are all NULL.

Rx performance not investigated.

I am postponing the MFC so i can import a few more improvements
before merging.


# 5819da83 08-Feb-2012 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

- change the buffer size from a constant to a
TUNABLE variable (hw.netmap.buf_size) so we can experiment
with values different from 2048 which may give better cache performance.

- rearrange the memory allocation code so it will be easier
to replace it with a different implementation. The current code
relies on a single large contiguous chunk of memory obtained through
contigmalloc.
The new implementation (not committed yet) uses multiple
smaller chunks which are easier to fit in a fragmented address
space.


# 8ce070c1 29-Dec-2011 Ulrich Spörlein <uqs@FreeBSD.org>

Spelling fixes for tools/

Add some $FreeBSD$ tags so svn will allow the commit.


# 506cc70c 04-Dec-2011 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

1. Fix the handling of link reset while in netmap more.
A link reset now is completely transparent for the netmap client:
even if the NIC resets its own ring (e.g. restarting from 0),
the client will not see any change in the current rx/tx positions,
because the driver will keep track of the offset between the two.

2. make the device-specific code more uniform across different drivers
There were some inconsistencies in the implementation of the netmap
support routines, now drivers have been aligned to a common
code structure.

3. import netmap support for ixgbe . This is implemented as a very
small patch for ixgbe.c (233 lines, 11 chunks, mostly comments:
in total the patch has only 54 lines of new code) , as most of
the code is in an external file sys/dev/netmap/ixgbe_netmap.h ,
following some initial comments from Jack Vogel about making
changes less intrusive.
(Note, i have emailed Jack multiple times asking if he had
comments on this structure of the code; i got no reply so
i assume he is fine with it).

Support for other drivers (em, lem, re, igb) will come later.

"ixgbe" is now the reference driver for netmap support. Both the
external file (sys/dev/netmap/ixgbe_netmap.h) and the device-specific
patches (in sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c) are heavily commented and should
serve as a reference for other device drivers.

Tested on i386 and amd64 with the pkt-gen program in tools/tools/netmap,
the sender does 14.88 Mpps at 1050 Mhz and 14.2 Mpps at 900 MHz
on an i7-860 with 4 cores and 82599 card. Haven't tried yet more
aggressive optimizations such as adding 'prefetch' instructions
in the time-critical parts of the code.


# 68b8534b 16-Nov-2011 Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>

Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet
I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/

At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/
plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in
tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1]

In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel
with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code
that you can find in

sys/dev/netmap/head.diff

The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to
the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days
after talking to the driver maintainers.

Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G
cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re").
I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe".
Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties
can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me
for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices.

CREDITS:
Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators
at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE
(http://www.change-project.eu/)
The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright.

[1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory.
We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains
the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code
in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is
the policy used for all of userspace code.
Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the
manpages in the relevant subdirs.