[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] app/testpmd: set packet dump based on verbosity level

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/11/2018 4:24 PM, Iremonger, Bernard wrote:
> Hi Feruh,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Yigit, Ferruh
>> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 4:00 PM
>> To: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at mellanox.com>; Wu, Jingjing
>> <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
>> Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; dev at dpdk.org; Shahaf Shuler
>> <shahafs at mellanox.com>; Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at mellanox.com>; Ori
>> Kam <orika at mellanox.com>; jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com;
>> david.marchand at 6wind.com; Iremonger, Bernard
>> <bernard.iremonger at intel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] app/testpmd: set packet dump based on
>> verbosity level
>>
>> On 10/7/2018 8:38 AM, Raslan Darawsheh wrote:
>>> when changing verbosity level it will configure rx/tx callbacks to
>>> dump packets based on the verbosity value as following:
>>>     1- dump only received packets:
>>>        testpmd> set verbose 1
>>>     2- dump only sent packets:
>>>        testpmd> set verbose 2
>>>     3- dump sent and received packets:
>>>        testpmd> set verbose (any number > 2)
>>>     4- disable dump
>>>        testpmd> set verbose 0
>>
>> It is good to able to enable Rx/Tx separately but you are overloading "verbose"
>> meaning here. "verbose" is kind of log_level internal to testpmd and can be used
>> by many testpmd debug log.
>>
>> Why not create a separate setting for it, perhaps like pkt_verbose?
> 
> The original code in rxonly.c used the verbose level, I don't think it is good idea to add a new pkt_verbose.
> Users will be expecting it to work as before.

In same logic they won't expect verbose=1 only for Rx and verbose=2 only for Tx,
previously this was on/off setting.

since we are touching here already clarifying this with its own config item
makes more sense to me.
And user may not be wanting to have testpmd verbose level 3 and related logs but
only Rx/Tx packets.