Function create_mp_ring_vdev() for failure cases exits without
freeing the created rte rings, because of this, pdump tool cannot be
rerun successfully. Added rte ring cleanup logic upon failures.
Fixes: caa7028276 ("app/pdump: add tool for packet capturing")
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Since users of the pdump library and tool can chose to have their own
server and client paths, it is must for the pdump tool to use the same
server socket path that was used by primary application while
initializing packet capture framework by rte_pdump_init() or
rte_pdump_set_socket_dir() APIs.
To pass the socket path info to pdump tool a new optional command
line options "server-socket-path" and "client-socket-path" are added.
"client-socket-path" is also added, if the users want to have client
sockets in their own defined paths.
Updated pdump tool guide with the new changes.
Fixes: caa7028276 ("app/pdump: add tool for packet capturing")
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
ring_size value is wrongly type casted to uint16_t.
It should be type casted to uint32_t, as maximum
ring size is 28bit long. Wrong type cast
wrapping around the ring size values bigger than 65535.
Fixes: caa7028276 ("app/pdump: add tool for packet capturing")
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
The new pdump tool is added for packet capturing on dpdk.
This tool runs as secondary process by default.
Tool facilitates the command line options like
port, device_id, queue which user should pass on
to the tool to request the packet capture on those devices.
Tool creates the rte ring, mempool and pcap vdev and
calls the enable API of the pdump library with port/device_id,
queue, ring and mempool as arguments to enable the packet
capture on specific devices and gets the packets from the
primary process over the ring. Once the packets are
received, those packets will be send to the pcap vdev.
Tool can be terminated by using ctrl+c(SIGINT) upon which tool
calls the disable API of the pdump library to disable the packet capture
and dequeues the rest of the packets from the ring and sends them on
to the pcap vdev, then after releases all allocated resources.
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
