[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Extensions to test-pmd
Thomas Monjalon
thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Fri May 16 16:22:58 CEST 2014
Hi Cyril,
2014-04-03 10:30, Cyril Chemparathy:
> This patch series contains a few minor extensions to test-pmd. These
> changes have been added primarily for convenience while testing out various
> scenarios with DPDK.
>
> Cyril Chemparathy (6):
> test-pmd: add support for single port loopback topology
> test-pmd: add support for auto-start when interactive
> test-pmd: allow command line selection of forwarding mode
> test-pmd: allow txpkts to be setup via command line
> test-pmd: add mac swap forwarding mode
> test-pmd: add flowgen forwarding engine
Thanks for these new features.
This is not the first time a new engine is added by copy/pasting the most part
of an existing engine. For instance, the "mac-retry" engine was added by Intel
as a copy/paste of the original "mac" one.
This is acceptable but not the perfect way to implement engines.
To address this issue, a new engine function could be introduced to setup some
parameters to be used by "packet_fwd" function. This way, similar engines
could be removed.
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
Applied for version 1.7.0.
--
Thomas
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