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L2FWD

./build/l2fwd -l 0-3 -n 4 -- -q 8 -p 0x2 -T 1
./build/l2fwd -l 0-3 -n 4 -d librte_pmd_e1000.so -d librte_mempool_ring.so  -- -q 8 -p 0x2 -T 1
gdb --args ./build/l2fwd -l 0-3 -n 4 -d librte_pmd_e1000.so -d librte_mempool_ring.so  -- -q 8 -p 0x3 -T 1


/* init EAL */
ret = rte_eal_init(argc, argv);

/* arguments of port, queue and time */
ret = l2fwd_parse_args(argc, argv);
      l2fwd_enabled_port_mask = l2fwd_parse_portmask(optarg);
      l2fwd_rx_queue_per_lcore = l2fwd_parse_nqueue(optarg);
      timer_secs = l2fwd_parse_timer_period(optarg);


/* create the mbuf pool */
l2fwd_pktmbuf_pool = rte_pktmbuf_pool_create("mbuf_pool", // name
                                              NB_MBUF, // number of elements
                                              MEMPOOL_CACHE_SIZE, //cache size
                                              0, //private data size
                                              RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_BUF_SIZE, //each of the rte-mbuf size
                                              rte_socket_id()); // master: 0

the basic initialization for packet forwarding


/* reset l2fwd_dst_ports */
for (portid = 0; portid < RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS; portid++)
    l2fwd_dst_ports[portid] = 0;
last_port = 0;


/*
 * Each logical core is assigned a dedicated TX queue on each port.
 */
 for (portid = 0; portid < nb_ports; portid++) {
   if ((l2fwd_enabled_port_mask & (1 << portid)) == 0)
      continue;

   if (nb_ports_in_mask % 2) {
      l2fwd_dst_ports[portid] = last_port;
      l2fwd_dst_ports[last_port] = portid;
    } else
    last_port = portid;

  nb_ports_in_mask++;
  rte_eth_dev_info_get(portid, &dev_info); // this function is not necessary
}

match destination array for each of the ports


/*
 * save the list of port id in the global configuration struct
 */

struct lcore_queue_conf {
	  unsigned n_rx_port;
	  unsigned rx_port_list[MAX_RX_QUEUE_PER_LCORE];
} __rte_cache_aligned;
struct lcore_queue_conf lcore_queue_conf[RTE_MAX_LCORE];

struct lcore_queue_conf *qconf;
for (portid = 0; portid < nb_ports; portid++) {

       // skip ports that are not enabled
       if ((l2fwd_enabled_port_mask & (1 << portid)) == 0)
         continue;

       // get the lcore_id for this port
         while (rte_lcore_is_enabled(rx_lcore_id) == 0 || lcore_queue_conf[rx_lcore_id].n_rx_port == l2fwd_rx_queue_per_lcore) {
               rx_lcore_id++;

           if (rx_lcore_id >= RTE_MAX_LCORE)
               rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Not enough cores\n");
         }

   if (qconf != &lcore_queue_conf[rx_lcore_id])
       // Assigned a new logical core in the loop above.
       qconf = &lcore_queue_conf[rx_lcore_id];

     qconf->rx_port_list[qconf->n_rx_port] = portid;
     qconf->n_rx_port++;
     printf("Lcore %u: RX port %u\n", rx_lcore_id, (unsigned) portid);
}

nb_ports_available = nb_ports;

lcore_queue_conf
add the number of rx queues for the global configuration file


/* Initialise each port */
for (portid = 0; portid < nb_ports; portid++) {

  // skip ports that are not enabled
  if ((l2fwd_enabled_port_mask & (1 << portid)) == 0) {
    printf("Skipping disabled port %u\n", (unsigned) portid);
    nb_ports_available--;
    continue;
  }

  // init port
  printf("Initializing port %u... ", (unsigned) portid);
  fflush(stdout);

  ret = rte_eth_dev_configure(portid, 1, 1, &port_conf);


  // ethernet addresses of ports
  rte_eth_macaddr_get(portid,&l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[portid]);

  // static struct ether_addr l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS];
  // l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[portid].addr_bytes[0],
  // l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[portid].addr_bytes[1],
  // l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[portid].addr_bytes[2],


  // init one RX queue
  fflush(stdout);
  ret = rte_eth_rx_queue_setup(portid, // The port identifier of the Ethernet device.
                               0, // 	The index of the receive queue to set up.
                               nb_rxd, // The number of receive descriptors to allocate for the receive ring.
                               rte_eth_dev_socket_id(portid), // The socket_id argument is the socket identifier in case of NUMA.
                               NULL, // The pointer to the configuration data to be used for the receive queue
                               l2fwd_pktmbuf_pool); // The pointer to the memory pool  

  // init one TX queue on each port
  fflush(stdout);
  ret = rte_eth_tx_queue_setup(portid, 0, nb_txd, rte_eth_dev_socket_id(portid), NULL);


  // static struct rte_eth_dev_tx_buffer * tx_buffer[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS];
  // Structure used to buffer packets for future TX Used by APIs rte_eth_tx_buffer and rte_eth_tx_buffer_flush
  // Initialize TX buffers
  tx_buffer[portid] = rte_zmalloc_socket(
                              "tx_buffer", // name
                              RTE_ETH_TX_BUFFER_SIZE(MAX_PKT_BURST), // Size (in bytes) to be allocated
                              0, // if 0, the return is a pointer that is suitably aligned for any kind of variable
                              rte_eth_dev_socket_id(portid) // NUMA socket to allocate memory on.
                      );

  rte_eth_tx_buffer_init(
                          tx_buffer[portid], // Tx buffer to be initialized
                          MAX_PKT_BURST // Buffer size
                         );

  // read the packet loss
  ret = rte_eth_tx_buffer_set_err_callback(tx_buffer[portid], rte_eth_tx_buffer_count_callback, &port_statistics[portid].dropped);

  // Start device
  ret = rte_eth_dev_start(portid);

  rte_eth_promiscuous_enable(portid);
  printf("Port %u, MAC address: %02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X\n\n",
      (unsigned) portid,
      l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[portid].addr_bytes[0],
      l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[portid].addr_bytes[1],
      l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[portid].addr_bytes[2],
      l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[portid].addr_bytes[3],
      l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[portid].addr_bytes[4],
      l2fwd_ports_eth_addr[portid].addr_bytes[5]);

  // initialize port stats
  memset(&port_statistics, 0, sizeof(port_statistics));
}

check_all_ports_link_status(nb_ports, l2fwd_enabled_port_mask);

ret = 0;
/* launch per-lcore init on every lcore */
rte_eal_mp_remote_launch(l2fwd_launch_one_lcore, NULL, CALL_MASTER);
RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE(lcore_id) {
  if (rte_eal_wait_lcore(lcore_id) < 0) {
    ret = -1;
    break;
  }
}
prev_tsc = 0;
timer_tsc = 0;

lcore_id = rte_lcore_id(); // get the current core id
qconf = &lcore_queue_conf[lcore_id]; // get the configuration file of the core id


if (qconf->n_rx_port == 0) {
	RTE_LOG(INFO, L2FWD, "lcore %u has nothing to do\n", lcore_id);
	return;
}

while (!force_quit) {
    cur_tsc = rte_rdtsc();

    // TX burst queue drain
    diff_tsc = cur_tsc - prev_tsc;

    if (unlikely(diff_tsc > drain_tsc)) {

        for (i = 0; i < qconf->n_rx_port; i++) {
            portid = l2fwd_dst_ports[qconf->rx_port_list[i]];
            buffer = tx_buffer[portid];
            sent = rte_eth_tx_buffer_flush(portid, 0, buffer);
            if (sent)
              port_statistics[portid].tx += sent;
        }

        // if timer is enabled
  			if (timer_period > 0) {
  				// advance the timer
  				timer_tsc += diff_tsc;
  				// if timer has reached its timeout
  				if (unlikely(timer_tsc >= timer_period)) {
  					// do this only on master core
  					if (lcore_id == rte_get_master_lcore()) {
  						print_stats();
  						// reset the timer
  						timer_tsc = 0;
  					}
  				}
  			}
  			prev_tsc = cur_tsc;
    }

run when printing the status
it seems that it also drains the tx queue if necessary


     // Read packet from RX queues

    for (i = 0; i < qconf->n_rx_port; i++) {
      portid = qconf->rx_port_list[i];
      nb_rx = rte_eth_rx_burst((uint8_t) portid, 0,
             pkts_burst, MAX_PKT_BURST);

      port_statistics[portid].rx += nb_rx;

      for (j = 0; j < nb_rx; j++) {
        m = pkts_burst[j];
        rte_prefetch0( // Prefetch a cache line into all cache levels.
                rte_pktmbuf_mtod(
                                 m, // The packet mbuf.
                                 void * // The type to cast the result into
                                )
        );
        l2fwd_simple_forward(m, portid);
      }
    }
  }
static void
l2fwd_simple_forward(struct rte_mbuf *m, unsigned portid){
	unsigned dst_port;
	int sent;
	struct rte_eth_dev_tx_buffer *buffer;

	dst_port = l2fwd_dst_ports[portid];

	if (mac_updating)
		l2fwd_mac_updating(m, dst_port);

  buffer = tx_buffer[dst_port];
	sent = rte_eth_tx_buffer(dst_port, 0, buffer, m);
	if (sent)
		port_statistics[dst_port].tx += sent;
}