[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/5] app/testpmd: add command to test NIC restoration

[Wu, Jingjing]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dai, Wei
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 10:07 PM
> To: thomas at monjalon.net; Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>; Ananyev,
> Konstantin <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>; Zhang, Helin
> <helin.zhang at intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Dai, Wei <wei.dai at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v2 5/5] app/testpmd: add command to test NIC restoration
> 
> When a NIC is reset, a message will show it.
> And then user can run the command "reset_port port_id"
> to reset the port and to keep same port id without any without any
> configuration.
> This patch adds a testpmd command "reconfig_port port_id"
> to test whether the port can be reconfigured to have success Rx and Tx function.
> The new command will configure the port with the simplest setting which
> includes only 1 Rx queue, only 1 Tx queue, Rx mode = None and Tx mode =
> None.
> It check if the port can receive and forward some packets.
> For example 100 packets in this new command.
> Before testing with "reset_port port_id" and then "reconfig_port port_id",
> current forwarding should be stopped first to avoid crash.
> 

Testpmd has mechanism to support reconfigure, you can check the need_reconfig
Field in port struct.
No need to define a new command.


Thanks
Jingjing