Re: [PATCH v7 4/4] test-pmd: add more packet verbose decode options

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:04:55 +0100
Paul Szczepanek <paul.szczepanek@arm.com> wrote:

> On 20/08/2024 16:54, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:42:56 +0100
> > Alex Chapman <alex.chapman@arm.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Stephen,
> >>
> >> I have gone through your patch series and the hexdump option would be 
> >> quite valuable for use in DTS.
> >>
> >> However I am currently facing the issue of distinguishing noise packets 
> >> from intentional packets within the verbose output. Prior to your patch, 
> >> the intention was to use the Layer 4 port to distinguish between them, 
> >> however with the hexdump option, the plan is to now use a custom payload.
> >>
> >> The one issue is that with verbose level 5 does not print the required 
> >> RSS hash and RSS queue information.  
> > 
> > The queue is there, in the output. Not sure if the hash matters.
> > I wanted to keep to tshark format as much as possible.
> >   
> 
> We appreciate that but the RSS info is valuable to us. Seeing as
> different enum values offer different info rather than different levels,
> maybe we could change the enum to flags

See new patch series, it also has JSON output.