[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] [v2 1/1] examples/l2fwd: add cmdline option for forwarding port info

[Thomas Monjalon]

05/04/2020 05:52, vattunuru at marvell.com:
> From: Vamsi Attunuru <vattunuru at marvell.com>
> 
> Current l2fwd application configures adjacent ports as destination
> ports for forwarding the traffic which is a kind of static mapping
> that can not be altered by the command line options.
> 
> Patch adds a config option to pass the forwarding port pair mapping
> as a command line parameter which allows the user to pass required
> forwarding port mapping.
> 
> If no config argument is specified, destination port map is not
> changed and traffic gets forwarded with existing mapping.
> 
> When port pair mapping is passed in config option, destination port map
> is configured and traffic gets forwarded accordingly.
> 
> Ex: ./l2fwd -c 0xff -- -p 0x3f --config="(0,3)(1,4)(2,5)"

The option name "--config" is vague.
Could we call it "--portmap", or something similar?