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From: Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov@sts.kz>
To: "Dumitrescu, Cristian" <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>,
	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] random pkt generator PMD
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:54:53 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5761501D.9000202@sts.kz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB4FA525960D640B5BDFFD6A3D8912647A065C2@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com>



On 15.06.2016 18:25, Dumitrescu, Cristian wrote:

>>>> So add a loop-mode to pcap pmd?
>>> It would be nice to have an option like "...,rewind=1,...".
>> As Cristian points out in
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/041589.html, the current pmd
>> behavior of stopping is the odd man out in the pmd crowd.
>>
>> Rather than whether to rewind or not, I'd make the number of loops
>> configurable, defaulting to forever and 1 being the equal to current
>> behavior.
>>
>> 	- Panu -
> +1

I'm afraid, all packets from pcap file would need to be preloaded to 
memory. Otherwise, each loop would infer pcap_open/pcap_close(), am I wrong?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-15 12:54 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 [this message]
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
2016-06-16  6:20   ` Yerden Zhumabekov

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