From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: add experimental UDP encapsulation PMD
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:18:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adc88cd3-1b2f-5333-ee03-637696068d5f@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221011001016.173447-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>
On 10/11/2022 1:10 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This is a new PMD which can be useful to test a DPDK application
> from another test program. The PMD binds to a connected UDP socket
> and expects to receive and send raw Ethernet packets over that
> socket.
>
Why is the 'connected UDP socket' requirement? I guess this maps with
'SO_REUSEPORT' in the code.
> This is especially useful for testing envirionments where you
> can't/don't want to give the test driver program route permission.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger<stephen@networkplumber.org>
> ---
> This is 1st draft port of some test infrastructure to get
> feedback and comments from community.
>
> Later version will include an example and unit tests.
I think pcap PMD can be used for similar testing purposed, but we can
have UDP PMD too, it may open other possibilities as a method to
communicate with other non-dpdk applications.
Although this is draft I will put some comments in other thread for next
version.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-11 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-11 0:10 Stephen Hemminger
2022-10-11 6:47 ` Morten Brørup
2022-10-11 14:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-10-11 16:18 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2022-10-11 17:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-10-11 16:48 ` Ferruh Yigit
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