[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] app/testpmd: add mempool flags parameter

Ye Xiaolong xiaolong.ye at intel.com
Wed Mar 20 03:08:52 CET 2019


Hi, 

On 03/19, Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran wrote:
>On Tue, 2019-03-19 at 15:12 +0800, Xiaolong Ye wrote:
>> When create rte_mempool, flags can be parsed from command line.
>> Now, it is possible for testpmd to create a af_xdp friendly
>> mempool (which enable zero copy).
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye at intel.com>
>> ---
>>  app/test-pmd/parameters.c             | 12 ++++++++++++
>>  app/test-pmd/testpmd.c                | 17 ++++++++++-------
>>  app/test-pmd/testpmd.h                |  1 +
>>  doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst |  4 ++++
>
>If I understand it correctly, The user needs to change all the
>application in order to avail zero copy feature of XDP.
>
>If so,
>
>How about creating wrapper mempool driver for xdp at drivers/mempool/?
>and mempool's best mempool feature to select the required mempool
>driver for XDP at runtime without changing the apps.
>
>see rte_mbuf_best_mempool_ops()
>see struct eth_dev_ops::pool_ops_supported

Sounds a good suggestion, I'll investigate and see how to implement it.

Thanks,
Xiaolong
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>/Jerin
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