[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] app/testpmd implement VXLAN/NVGRE Encap/Decap

[Mohammad Abdul Awal]

Hi Nelio,


On 21/06/2018 08:13, Nelio Laranjeiro wrote:
> This series adds an easy and maintainable configuration version support for
> those two actions for 18.08 by using global variables in testpmd to store the
> necessary information for the tunnel encapsulation.  Those variables are used
> in conjunction of RTE_FLOW_ACTION_{VXLAN,NVGRE}_ENCAP action to create easily
> the action for flows.
>
> A common way to use it:
>
>   set vxlan ipv4 4 4 4 127.0.0.1 128.0.0.1 11:11:11:11:11:11 22:22:22:22:22:22
>   flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions vxlan_encap / queue index 0 / end

This way we can define only one tunnel for all the flows. This is not a 
convenient for testing a scenario (e.g. mutiport or switch) with 
multiple tunnels. Isn't it?

Regards,
Awal.