[PATCH v7 4/4] test-pmd: add more packet verbose decode options

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Aug 20 17:54:43 CEST 2024


On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:42:56 +0100
Alex Chapman <alex.chapman at arm.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> I have gone through your patch series and the hexdump option would be 
> quite valuable for use in DTS.
> 
> However I am currently facing the issue of distinguishing noise packets 
> from intentional packets within the verbose output. Prior to your patch, 
> the intention was to use the Layer 4 port to distinguish between them, 
> however with the hexdump option, the plan is to now use a custom payload.
> 
> The one issue is that with verbose level 5 does not print the required 
> RSS hash and RSS queue information.

The queue is there, in the output. Not sure if the hash matters.
I wanted to keep to tshark format as much as possible.

For DTS, maybe having a yet another JSON verbose format would be best.
Something with mbuf bits in JSON.


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