From: Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Wisam Jaddo <wisamm@mellanox.com>, dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>,
Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] app/test-flow-perf: add rte_flow perf app
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:48:18 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALBAE1MQ9ECvJR0GXv0g01PTS2h4XopxAqfeRnGboZms55HeiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2710919.e9J7NaK4W3@xps>
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:21 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> 20/03/2020 07:49, Jerin Jacob:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 7:16 PM Wisam Jaddo <wisamm@mellanox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for this application. Useful stuff.
> >
> > >
> > > Introducing new application for rte_flow performance
> > > testing. The application provide the ability to test
> > > insertion rate of specific rte_flow rule, by stressing
> > > it to the NIC, and calculate the insertion rate.
> > >
> > > It also provides packet per second measurements
> > > after the insertion operation is done.
> > >
> > > The application offers some options in the command
> > > line, to configure which rule to apply.
> > >
> > > After that the application will start producing rules
> > > with same pattern but increasing the outer IP source
> > > address by 1 each time, thus it will give different
> > > flow each time, and all other items will have open masks.
> > >
> > > The current design have single core insertion rate.
> > > In the future we may have a multi core insertion rate
> > > measurement support in the app.
> >
> > If I understand correctly,
> > # On the main thread, this application first check the flow insertion
> > performance
> > # and then start the worker thread for packet forwarding.
> > Why this application testing the packet forwarding?, We already have
> > testpmd for that.
>
> I think it is interesting to measure forwarding performance
> when million of flow rules are in effect.
The rules are applied to the HW CAM, Right?
Do you see any performance difference?
>
> > IMO, This application needs to focus only on
> > - Insertion performance
> > - Deletion performance
> > - IMO, it is better to add a framework for the profile where the first
> > version of this application can
> > define common a set of ITEMS and set of ACTION and later others can extend it.
> > And the framework can run over all the profiles and spit out the
> > insertion and deletion
> > performance.
>
> What do you call a profile? Is it a set of rules?
set of rules and/or actions.
> I think this first version is proposing rules customization with parameters.
Just that it better to have a framework where one can easily add new
profiles and
test various combos. IMO, Cascade rules take more insertion time.
> Note: I prefer a non-interactive application for performance testing.
Me too. Command-line is fine.
>
> > > The app supports single and multi core performance
> > > measurements.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-20 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-17 13:46 Wisam Jaddo
2020-03-20 6:49 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-03-20 11:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-20 12:18 ` Jerin Jacob [this message]
2020-03-23 9:53 ` Wisam Monther
2020-03-23 11:15 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-03-23 11:41 ` Wisam Monther
2020-03-23 13:00 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-23 13:09 ` Wisam Monther
2020-04-09 15:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] app/test-flow-perf: add flow performance skeleton Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-09 15:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] app/test-flow-perf: add insertion rate calculation Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-17 2:07 ` Xiaoyu Min
2020-04-28 8:25 ` Wisam Monther
2020-04-09 15:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] app/test-flow-perf: add deletion " Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-17 2:07 ` Xiaoyu Min
2020-04-28 8:25 ` Wisam Monther
2020-04-09 15:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] app/test-flow-perf: add memory dump to app Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-17 2:08 ` Xiaoyu Min
2020-04-28 8:25 ` Wisam Monther
2020-04-09 15:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] app/test-flow-perf: add packet forwarding support Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-17 2:09 ` Xiaoyu Min
2020-04-28 8:26 ` Wisam Monther
2020-04-28 14:09 ` Or Gerlitz
2020-04-29 9:49 ` Wisam Monther
2020-04-16 15:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] app/test-flow-perf: add flow performance skeleton Wisam Monther
2020-04-17 2:05 ` Xiaoyu Min
2020-04-28 8:22 ` Wisam Monther
2020-04-30 7:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/5] *** Introduce flow perf application *** Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 7:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] app/test-flow-perf: add flow performance skeleton Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 9:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] *** Introduce flow perf application *** Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 9:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/5] app/test-flow-perf: add flow performance skeleton Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 10:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] Introduce flow perf application Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 10:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/5] app/test-flow-perf: add flow performance skeleton Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 11:59 ` Xiaoyu Min
2020-05-04 10:16 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-05 10:45 ` Wisam Monther
2020-05-05 11:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-05 10:47 ` Wisam Monther
2020-05-06 2:49 ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-05-06 7:32 ` Wisam Monther
2020-05-06 8:48 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-06 8:51 ` Wisam Monther
2020-05-06 8:54 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-06 12:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/5] Introduce flow perf application Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-06 12:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/5] app/flow-perf: add flow performance skeleton Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-06 14:25 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-06 17:07 ` Wisam Monther
2020-05-06 17:15 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-11 11:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/5] Introduce flow perf application Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-11 11:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/5] app/flow-perf: add flow performance skeleton Wisam Jaddo
2020-06-04 13:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/5] Introduce flow perf application Wisam Jaddo
2020-06-04 13:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/5] app/flow-perf: add flow performance skeleton Wisam Jaddo
2020-06-04 13:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/5] app/flow-perf: add insertion rate calculation Wisam Jaddo
2020-06-25 7:04 ` Wisam Monther
2020-06-04 13:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 3/5] app/flow-perf: add deletion " Wisam Jaddo
2020-06-04 13:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 4/5] app/flow-perf: add memory dump to app Wisam Jaddo
2020-06-04 13:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 5/5] app/flow-perf: add packet forwarding support Wisam Jaddo
2020-06-29 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/5] Introduce flow perf application Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-11 11:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/5] app/flow-perf: add insertion rate calculation Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-11 11:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/5] app/flow-perf: add deletion " Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-11 11:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/5] app/flow-perf: add memory dump to app Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-11 11:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 5/5] app/flow-perf: add packet forwarding support Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-11 11:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/5] Introduce flow perf application Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-11 11:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/5] app/flow-perf: add flow performance skeleton Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-11 12:04 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-11 11:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/5] app/flow-perf: add insertion rate calculation Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-11 12:05 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-12 10:34 ` Wisam Monther
2020-05-12 11:07 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-06-02 12:43 ` Wisam Monther
2020-05-11 11:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/5] app/flow-perf: add deletion " Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-11 11:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/5] app/flow-perf: add memory dump to app Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-11 11:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 5/5] app/flow-perf: add packet forwarding support Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-06 12:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/5] app/flow-perf: add insertion rate calculation Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-06 15:23 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-07 12:38 ` Wisam Monther
2020-05-06 12:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/5] app/flow-perf: add deletion " Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-06 12:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/5] app/flow-perf: add memory dump to app Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-06 12:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/5] app/flow-perf: add packet forwarding support Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-06 12:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/5] Introduce flow perf application Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-30 10:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/5] app/test-flow-perf: add insertion rate calculation Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 12:00 ` Xiaoyu Min
2020-05-04 12:01 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-05-06 4:00 ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-05-06 12:33 ` Wisam Monther
2020-04-30 10:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/5] app/test-flow-perf: add deletion " Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 12:02 ` Xiaoyu Min
2020-04-30 10:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/5] app/test-flow-perf: add memory dump to app Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 12:03 ` Xiaoyu Min
2020-05-06 4:10 ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-04-30 10:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/5] app/test-flow-perf: add packet forwarding support Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 12:05 ` Xiaoyu Min
2020-05-04 7:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] Introduce flow perf application Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-30 9:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/5] app/test-flow-perf: add insertion rate calculation Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 9:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/5] app/test-flow-perf: add deletion " Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 9:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/5] app/test-flow-perf: add memory dump to app Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 9:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/5] app/test-flow-perf: add packet forwarding support Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 7:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/5] app/test-flow-perf: add insertion rate calculation Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 7:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] app/test-flow-perf: add deletion " Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 7:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/5] app/test-flow-perf: add memory dump to app Wisam Jaddo
2020-04-30 7:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/5] app/test-flow-perf: add packet forwarding support Wisam Jaddo
2020-05-06 3:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] app/test-flow-perf: add flow performance skeleton Ajit Khaparde
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