3 This plugin is optional and only has a specific use case: monitoring DPDK applications
4 that don't expose stats in any other way than the DPDK xstats API.
6 **Data Plane Development Kit** (DPDK) is a set of drivers and libraries for fast
7 packet processing. Please note that this plugin is a polling based plugin rather
8 than an events based plugin (using it will drive up core utilization on a system).
10 **PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS PLUGIN FOR OVS-DPDK**. dpdkstat is really for DPDK
11 applications that have no other way of exposing stats. For OVS or OVS-with-DPDK the
12 Open vSwitch plugins available in collectd 5.8.0 should be used for
13 collecting stats and events. In addition the OVS plugin is events based rather
14 than polling based and will have a smaller footprint on the system.
18 The *dpdkstat plugin* has the following requirements:
23 You can also build with GCC 4.8 (e.g. Ubuntu 14.04) if you specify the SSSE3
24 instruction set manually:
26 make -j CFLAGS+='-mssse3'
30 * Setup the build environment:
32 Ensure that you have GCC 4.9 or later. Ubuntu 14.04, for example, has GCC
33 4.8 by default and requires an upgrade:
35 add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
37 apt-get install gcc-4.9
39 If you know that the platform that you wish to run collectd on supports the
40 SSSE3 instruction set, GCC 4.8 also works if you enable SSSE3 manually:
42 make -j CFLAGS+='-mssse3'
46 git clone git://dpdk.org/dpdk
48 * Checkout the [DPDK system
49 requirements](http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html) and make
50 sure you have the required tools and hugepage setup as specified there.
52 **Note:** It's recommended to use the 1GB hugepage setup for best
53 performance, please follow the instruction for "Reserving Hugepages for DPDK
54 Use" in the link above.
56 However if you plan on configuring 2MB hugepages on the fly please ensure to
57 add appropriate commands to reserve hugepages in a system startup script if
58 collectd is booted at system startup time. These commands include:
61 mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge
62 echo 64 > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
64 * To configure the DPDK build for the combined shared library and enable autoload
65 of pmd drivers modify `config/common_base` in your DPDK as follows
68 # Compile to share library
70 -CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=n
71 +CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=y
73 # Default driver path (or "" to disable)
74 -CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH=""
75 +CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH="/usr/lib/dpdk-pmd/"
77 * Prepare the configuration for the appropriate target as specified at:
78 http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_dpdk.html.
82 make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
88 * Install DPDK to `/usr`
90 sudo make install prefix=/usr
92 * Create dpdk-pmd folder
94 mkdir -p /usr/lib/dpdk-pmd
96 * Create symlinks to pmd drivers
98 find /usr/lib -type f -name 'librte_pmd*' | while read path ; do ln -s $path /usr/lib/dpdk-pmd/`echo $path | grep -o 'librte_.*so'` ; done
100 **Note 1:** You must run make install as the configuration of collectd with
101 DPDK expects DPDK to be installed somewhere.
103 **Note 2:** If you don't specify a prefix then DPDK will be installed in
106 **Note 3:** If you are not root then use sudo to make install DPDK to the
107 appropriate location.
109 **Note 4:** You **MUST** create symlink to a NIC driver lib. This way collectd
110 will be able to work with device bound to dpdk.
112 * Check that the DPDK library has been installed in `/usr/lib` or `/lib`:
114 ls /usr/lib | grep dpdk
116 * Bind the interfaces to use with dpdkstat to DPDK:
118 DPDK devices can be setup with either the VFIO (for DPDK 1.7+) or UIO
121 **Note:** UIO requires inserting an out of tree driver `igb_uio.ko` that is
130 * Insert `igb_uio.ko`:
132 sudo insmod $DPDK_BUILD/kmod/igb_uio.ko
134 * Bind network device to `igb_uio`:
136 sudo $DPDK_DIR/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py --bind=igb_uio eth1
140 * VFIO needs to be supported in the kernel and the BIOS. More information
141 can be found at: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_dpdk.html.
142 * Insert the `vfio-pci.ko` module:
146 * Set the correct permissions for the VFIO device:
148 sudo /usr/bin/chmod a+x /dev/vfio
149 sudo /usr/bin/chmod 0666 /dev/vfio/*
151 * Bind the network device to `vfio-pci`:
153 sudo $DPDK_DIR/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py --bind=vfio-pci eth1
155 **Note:** Please ensure to add appropriate commands to bind the network
156 interfaces to DPDK in a system startup script if collectd is booted at
159 * Run `ldconfig` to update the shared library cache.
161 ## Build collectd with DPDK
163 **Note:** DPDK 16.04 is the minimum version and currently supported version of
164 DPDK required for the dpdkstat plugin. This is to allow the plugin to take
165 advantage of functions added to detect if the DPDK primary process is alive.
168 **Note:** The *Address-Space Layout Randomization* (ASLR) security feature in
169 Linux should be disabled, in order for the same hugepage memory mappings to be
170 present in all DPDK multi-process applications. Note that this has security
175 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
177 * To fully enable ASLR:
179 echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
181 See also: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.html
183 * Generate the build script as specified below. (i.e. run `build.sh`).
184 * Configure collectd with the DPDK shared library. If DPDK is installed in
185 custom installation path you can specify headers include path using
186 LIBDPDK_CPPFLAGS variable and libraries path with LIBDPDK_LDFLAGS.
191 or for custom DPKD installation:
193 ./configure LIBDPDK_CPPFLAGS="-I/home/joe/include/dpdk" LIBDPDK_LDFLAGS="-L/home/joe/usr/lib"
195 * Make sure that libdpdk and dpdkstat are enabled in the *configure* output.
201 libdpdk . . . . . . . . yes
205 dpdkstat . . . . . . .yes
209 make -j && make -j install
211 **Note:** As mentioned above, if you are building on Ubuntu 14.04 with
212 GCC <= 4.8.X, you need to use:
214 make -j CFLAGS+='-mssse3' && make -j install
218 * The same PCI device configuration should be passed to the primary process as
219 the secondary process uses the same port indexes as the primary.
220 * A blacklist / whitelist of NICs isn't supported yet.
221 * Plugin initialization time depends on read interval. It requires 5 read
222 cycles to set up internal buffers and states. During that time no statistics
224 * If number of DPDK ports is increased while plugin is running, internal
225 buffers are resized. That requires 3 read cycles and no port statistics
226 are submitted in that time.
230 The *dpdkstat plugin* is copyright (c) 2016 *Intel Corporation* and licensed
231 under the *MIT license*. Full licensing terms can be found in the file