From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE531B3DB for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2017 22:13:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3404E209F3; Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:13:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 09 Nov 2017 16:13:48 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=0kkXzzw9gQRHA/ziwwYKjp0R5K j0fhAkxHJ85ZoB/IY=; b=TSsL6Y2ql1FoP2KeDhRhW1iB0bw2uLDE6rGe0caVQa IXGgs3Mmfj0fhLq733GqmoBAgi/mWLFFpa66SPXoGF7D/o0oxog6vUGFiKsMcfHQ eEiVNk5kk8AsVDX5LEHKt6vzxLVSwJoAsMdJQAJJ0aTIhID2vZ4fz8HrMuxpjsZd I= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=0kkXzz w9gQRHA/ziwwYKjp0R5Kj0fhAkxHJ85ZoB/IY=; b=ShXPG9xhTvV5PkOFl8rX5d sG30Y2N3Ii7sRDJQ5NcT/u1JuTDoKgLPnK3frV6BOFmqUlYe0NmSxmdEMi8h79HX SkAqEuvbhzuHh2kLVUYYsclYIvDhM5n7KW+yB8sQjLyB1fFOs+m6zJgYeQ9IuHUv SBrDqrAwyYMzPPK4O0F3DhS+U4+4wF4Xld8QNrIGTenoKGkp5p9K3Vm37Sgguo04 +6HbqGDgqIgmvYP0fS5YXEgWbi0KjOo+2l8d2YOqtwnGnUzUejTxX0Qny3mVj3ZC WqJOvWqWvaDNidQJELsAA5R2l1L6RcoLQ8WlyBqs4110YS6JMQdsHQp6SWRAc7Tg == X-ME-Sender: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E591824731; Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:13:47 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Bruce Richardson , Victor Kaplansky Cc: dev@dpdk.org, jingjing.wu@intel.com, Amnon Ilan , Tim Irnich , Georg Kunz , Gabor =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hal=E1sz?= , Mechthild Buescher Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 22:13:46 +0100 Message-ID: <2833194.20UaxZ7Ebt@xps> In-Reply-To: <20171031101352.GB10572@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <656367172.34323219.1509345665467.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> <20171031101352.GB10572@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:13:48 -0000 31/10/2017 11:13, Bruce Richardson: > 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. Not sure. If we need to mix the VNF simulation options with the NIC features options (implemented in testpmd), then testpmd would be a good fit. Please Victor, give your arguments to make the discussion progressing.