From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>
Cc: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>,
Kathleen Capella <Kathleen.Capella@arm.com>,
"thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Dharmik Thakkar <Dharmik.Thakkar@arm.com>,
Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>,
"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
"jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
"hemant.agrawal@nxp.com" <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] L3fwd mode in testpmd
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 11:48:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIk9gpqDDpL8cUqf@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DBAPR08MB5814C1CF33A897A0538DE72498419@DBAPR08MB5814.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:17:24PM +0000, Honnappa Nagarahalli wrote:
<snip>
> Yes, this is what we have done. It is a new forwarding mode.
> We could remove some forwarding modes from testpmd. For ex: macfwd, macswap seem very similar to iofwd mode.
I'd suggest removing one of those two, but not both. Sometimes one is
testing with a system behind a switch where correct mac addresses need to
be used to ensure proper packet return.
>
> >
> > In fact, l3fwd is also quite big and complex:
> > $ wc -l examples/l3fwd/*.[h,c] |grep total
> > 6969 total
> >
> > Plus it will introduce extra dependencies (fib, lpm, hash, might-be acl?) I am
> > not sure it is a good idea to pull all these complexities into test-pmd.
> I do not suggest pulling all these in. In our case, I see that the ask is only on LPM. I am open to hearing what others see as the requirement.
>
I think fib is the planned long-term replacement for lpm, and implements
the same algorithm, so I think first versions should use it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-28 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-10 18:31 Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-03-11 6:41 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-03-11 15:18 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-03-11 15:46 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-03-11 16:00 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-03-31 20:35 ` Kathleen Capella
2021-03-31 21:17 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-04-01 0:20 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-04-01 4:38 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-04-24 0:26 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-04-26 9:44 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-04-26 17:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-04-26 20:46 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-04-27 9:39 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-27 9:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-04-27 9:57 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-04-27 11:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-27 11:32 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-27 23:26 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-04-27 23:17 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-04-28 10:48 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2021-04-28 11:04 ` Stanisław Kardach
2021-04-28 11:19 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-28 21:44 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-04-29 7:49 ` Stanislaw Kardach
2021-04-29 8:31 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-04-29 10:39 ` Stanislaw Kardach
2021-04-29 11:47 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-04-29 11:53 ` Stanislaw Kardach
2021-04-30 11:28 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-08-02 15:07 ` Dharmik Thakkar
2021-04-28 11:17 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-28 10:59 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-04-28 22:10 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-04-27 16:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-04-27 20:20 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-04-27 22:23 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-04-27 23:11 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-04-28 11:00 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-04-26 20:32 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
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