From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov@sts.kz>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] random pkt generator PMD
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:02:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160615130231.GB20120@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5761235C.2090906@sts.kz>
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 03:43:56PM +0600, Yerden Zhumabekov wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> DPDK already got a number of PMDs for various eth devices, it even has PMD
> emulations for backends such as pcap, sw rings etc.
>
> I've been thinking about the idea of having PMD which would generate mbufs
> on the fly in some randomized fashion. This would serve goals like, for
> example:
>
> 1) running tests for applications with network processing capabilities
> without additional software packet generators;
> 2) making performance measurements with no hw inteference;
> 3) ability to run without root privileges, --no-pci, --no-huge, for CI
> build, so on.
>
> Maybe there's no such need, and these goals may be achieved by other means
> and this idea is flawed? Any thoughts?
>
I think you already have a solution to this problem. Linux/BSD have multiple
user space packet generators that can dump thier output to a pcap format file,
and dpdk has a pcap pmd that accepts a pcap file as input to send in packets.
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-15 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-15 9:43 Yerden Zhumabekov
2016-06-15 9:49 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-06-15 10:03 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2016-06-15 10:07 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-06-21 8:43 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2016-06-15 10:43 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2016-06-15 11:10 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2016-06-15 11:25 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-06-15 12:14 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2016-06-15 12:24 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-06-15 12:25 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2016-06-15 12:54 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2016-06-15 13:03 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2016-06-15 13:30 ` Arnon Warshavsky
2016-06-15 11:25 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2016-06-15 12:11 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2016-06-15 11:40 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-15 11:48 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-06-15 11:50 ` Jay Rolette
2016-06-15 12:11 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2016-06-15 12:33 ` Jay Rolette
2016-06-15 12:48 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2016-06-15 13:02 ` Neil Horman [this message]
2016-06-16 6:20 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
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