From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB981B267 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:13:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 31 Oct 2017 03:13:56 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.44,323,1505804400"; d="scan'208";a="1212300587" Received: from bricha3-mobl3.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.221.32]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with SMTP; 31 Oct 2017 03:13:53 -0700 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:13:53 +0000 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:13:53 +0000 From: Bruce Richardson To: Victor Kaplansky Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Jingjing Wu\"\"Franck Baudin" , Amnon Ilan , Tim Irnich , Georg Kunz , Gabor =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hal=E1sz?= , Mechthild Buescher Message-ID: <20171031101352.GB10572@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <656367172.34323219.1509345665467.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <656367172.34323219.1509345665467.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Organization: Intel Research and Development Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/4] testpmd: simulating noisy host environment X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:13:58 -0000 On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 02:41:05AM -0400, Victor Kaplansky wrote: > > This RFC patch propose enhancements to testpmd to simulate > more realistic behavior of a guest machine engaged in receiving > and sending packets performing Virtual Network Function (VNF). > > The goal is to enable simple of measuring performance impact on cache and > memory footprint utilization from various VNF co-located on the > same host machine. > > This series of patches adds the new command line switches to > testpmd: > Hi, while I think this functionality is of use, I don't think it should go into testpmd. Testpmd is designed for testing NIC PMDs, and not as a general test tool, and is already complicated enough with lots of commandline options. For the task of testing VNF use-cases, I think a new separate app or example would be better. My 2c. /Bruce