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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Jens Freimann <jfreimann@redhat.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: ailan@redhat.com, jan.scheurich@ericsson.com,
	vkaplans@redhat.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com,
	thomas@monjalon.net, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com,
	konstantin.ananyev@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] testpmd: update testpmd documentation to include noisy forwarding mode
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:19:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40abbbc6-911f-163c-a18f-2433e4cee48c@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180413113716.27968-3-jfreimann@redhat.com>

On 4/13/2018 12:37 PM, Jens Freimann wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jens Freimann <jfreimann@redhat.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst       | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst |  7 +++++--
>  2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
> index 1fd53958a..0b7046bb0 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
> @@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ The commandline options are:
>         icmpecho
>         ieee1588
>         tm
> +       noisy
>  
>  *   ``--rss-ip``
>  
> @@ -479,3 +480,29 @@ The commandline options are:
>  
>      Set the hexadecimal bitmask of TX queue offloads.
>      The default value is 0.
> +
> +*   ``--buffersize-before-sending=N``
> +
> +    Set the number of maximum elements  of the FIFO queue to be created 
> +    for buffering packets. Only available with the noisy forwarding mode.
> +    The default value is 0.
> +
> +*   ``--flush-timeout=N``
> +
> +    Set the size of the FIFO queue to be created for buffering packets.
> +    Only available with the noisy forwarding mode. The default value is 0.

Some of the there parameter names are so generic when you think them in the
scope of the whole testpmd it can be confusing and hard to understand what they
are for.

What do you think adding a prefix to all noisy neighbor related commands?

> +
> +*   ``--nb-rnd-read=N``
> +
> +    Set the number of reads to be done in noisy neighbour simulation memory buffer.
> +    Only available with the noisy forwarding mode. The default value is 0.
> +
> +*   ``--nb-rnd-write=N``
> +
> +    Set the number of writes to be done in noisy neighbour simulation memory buffer.
> +    Only available with the noisy forwarding mode. The default value is 0.
> +
> +*   ``--nb-rnd-write=N``
> +
> +    Set the number of r/w access to be done in noisy neighbour simulation memory buffer.
> +    Only available with the noisy forwarding mode. The default value is 0.

<...>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-13 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-13 11:37 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] testpmd: simulating noisy host environment Jens Freimann
2018-04-13 11:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] testpmd: add forwarding mode to simulate a noisy neighbour Jens Freimann
2018-06-14 11:26   ` Iremonger, Bernard
2018-04-13 11:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] testpmd: update testpmd documentation to include noisy forwarding mode Jens Freimann
2018-04-13 13:19   ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2018-04-16 20:17     ` Jens Freimann

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