From: Vijay <vjmohanc@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: users@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Packet spacing in DPDK
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:51:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJY-tEGUD9Wr8gXc_CoF08zQT6fyQoOuTMhg09Yf8=MjHHSJYw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170608102514.2e5a1097@xeon-e3>
So, for example, at every 1 Sec interval if 1000 packets need to
transmitted, then HW tries to send them as fast as possible ? Is there any
document which talks about this ?
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Stephen Hemminger <
stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:50:05 -0700
> Vijay <vjmohanc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to this mailing list and new to DPDK. I would like to know about
> > packet spacing when a burst of packets are being transmitted. For
> example:
> > there is a timer running and at expiry of the timer there could multiple
> > frames that need to transmitted. So, will these frames be spaced by dpdk
> > before transmission ? Is it internally handled by dpdk ? Is there any doc
> > that talks about this ?
> >
> > I am not sure if this question has already been asked. If yes, please
> point
> > me to the appropriate thread which talks about this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vijay
>
> The packets in DPDK are not paced. The hardware sends them as fast as
> possible.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-08 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-08 16:50 Vijay
2017-06-08 17:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-06-08 17:51 ` Vijay [this message]
2017-06-09 11:19 ` Shepard Siegel
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