From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Vijay <vjmohanc@gmail.com>
Cc: users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Packet spacing in DPDK
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:25:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170608102514.2e5a1097@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJY-tEENyuLf16YZOVJBc6HDmocX8j6NX9GQkS9uCQbF0NJPag@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:50:05 -0700
Vijay <vjmohanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to this mailing list and new to DPDK. I would like to know about
> packet spacing when a burst of packets are being transmitted. For example:
> there is a timer running and at expiry of the timer there could multiple
> frames that need to transmitted. So, will these frames be spaced by dpdk
> before transmission ? Is it internally handled by dpdk ? Is there any doc
> that talks about this ?
>
> I am not sure if this question has already been asked. If yes, please point
> me to the appropriate thread which talks about this.
>
> Thanks,
> Vijay
The packets in DPDK are not paced. The hardware sends them as fast as possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-08 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-08 16:50 Vijay
2017-06-08 17:25 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-06-08 17:51 ` Vijay
2017-06-09 11:19 ` Shepard Siegel
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