[dpdk-users] DPDK application that sends rules to the NIC

[george.dit at gmail.com]

Hi Shahaf,

Thanks for the information, I am looking into it :)
I had some compilation issues when trying to port rte_flow from DPDK 17.02
into an external application but these issues go away if I use 17.08.

Best regards,
Georgios

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com> wrote:

> Hi Georgios,
>
> Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:09 AM, Georgios Katsikas:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to implement a DPDK application that dumps a set of rules
> to a
> > Mellanox ConnectX-5 NIC and starts a number of threads (each on a
> > different
> > core) that receive the classified packets according to the rules.
> > The rules are of the form src IP X and dst IP Y --> Send to core Z.
> >
> > Is there such an application (or similar) in the source tree?
>
> You can use testpmd for that. Run in isolate mode and add rte_flow rules
> to direct IP packets to the specific queue that you want.
>
> > Does the Mellanox
> > NIC require any special treatment or is there a unified API to do this
> job
> > regardless of the NIC?
>
> There Is a unified API. look into rte_flow:
> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.html
>
> > Which DPDK version do you propose?
>
> The latest one - v17.08
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Georgios Katsikas
> > Industrial Ph.D. Student
> > Network Intelligence Group
> > Decision, Networks, and Analytics (DNA) Lab RISE SICS
> > E-Mail:  georgios.katsikas at ri.se
>



-- 
Georgios Katsikas
Industrial Ph.D. Student
Network Intelligence Group
Decision, Networks, and Analytics (DNA) Lab
RISE SICS
E-Mail:  georgios.katsikas at ri.se