From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
To: wushaohua <wushaohua@chinatelecom.cn>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: aman.deep.singh@intel.com, yuying.zhang@intel.com,
Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>,
"techboard@dpdk.org" <techboard@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] app/testpmd:add vxlan txonly
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:47:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b881442a-bf6d-e1ce-89e9-54e51fa07913@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d7f1677-b64e-add2-cc5f-fdc37467e1ab@chinatelecom.cn>
On 2/18/2023 11:06 AM, wushaohua wrote:
>
> 在 2023/2/18 4:43, Ferruh Yigit 写道:
>> On 1/3/2023 2:30 AM, wushaohua@chinatelecom.cn wrote:
>>> From: Shaohua Wu <wushaohua@chinatelecom.cn>
>>>
>>> Add the vxlan packet sending module to actively send
>>> vxlan packets using a common network adapter.
>>> The default vni is 1000.
>>> example:
>>> ./dpdk-testpmd -l 32-47 -n 16 --file-prefix pg0 -- -i
>>> --rxq=16 --txq=16 --rxd=1024 --txd=1024
>>> --txpkts=64 --burst=64 --mbuf-size=4096
>>> --nb-cores=15 --underlay_tx_only
>>> --underlay-eth-peer=0,f0:00:00:00:00:66
>>> --eth-peer=0,08:c0:eb:3e:87:af
>>> --utx-ip=11.0.0.1,11.0.0.2
>>> --tx-ip=30.0.0.1,30.0.0.2
>>> --forward-mode=tuntxonly
>>> --txonly-multi-flow
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Wu <wushaohua@chinatelecom.cn>
>> Hi Shaohua,
>>
>> This is a good feature but I am not sure if this is in the scope of
>> testpmd application.
>>
>> Testpmd has basic packet generation capabilities, and it is useful for
>> quick/dirty testing, but for more advanced packet generation perhaps
>> other tools like pktgen [1] can be used, what do you think?
>>
>> What is the justification to have this feature in testpmd, and what is
>> your usecase?
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> https://git.dpdk.org/apps/pktgen-dpdk/
>
> Hi Ferruh，
>
> Thank you for your review.From what I know now pktgen doesn't seem to support the construction of vxlan packets.
>
I was asking if it makes sense to add this support to pktgen, instead of
testpmd.
> In a real test scenario, testpmd only sends bare packets and cannot cover test scenarios, such as ovs decap performance.
> Currently, testpmd of this patch is used, and the packet sending performance is 22+Mpps with a 25G network adapter.
>
> This is necessary for testing DPU devices or virtualization scenarios.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-18 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-03 2:30 wushaohua
2023-02-17 20:43 ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-02-18 11:06 ` wushaohua
2023-02-18 23:47 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2023-03-06 12:07 ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-03-23 11:51 ` Ferruh Yigit
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