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From: Jay Rolette <rolette@infinite.io>
To: Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov@sts.kz>
Cc: DPDK <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] random pkt generator PMD
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 06:50:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADNuJVrBM3AgsQFOPG11cOmVmLXR=LNF3=1q+mVNmSwowEHrQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5761235C.2090906@sts.kz>

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov@sts.kz>
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?
>

Are you thinking of something along the lines of what BreakingPoint (now
part of Ixia) does, but as an open source software tool?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-15 11:50 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 [this message]
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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