On 05/15/2018 03:05 PM, Wisam Monther wrote: > Hey Kevin, > > What if I have 10 ports and want all 9 ports to forward packets to port > 0, this cannot done in paired. > But with this topo the user can overwrite the topo. > E.g: > - Set custom-topo 1 0 > Will make those paired and those two as active only. > > - set custom-topo 2 0 > Will make those two as paired, but still port one will forward packets > to 0. > And the active ports will be 3 ports (0,1,2) > And so on... > With this topo you can create your own topo. (Mixed between all topos or > even non-pattern topo for any usage) > In my case its needed for representors and virtio. > > Any traffic coming from representors/vhost (from VM) need to be > forwarded from PF/phy port to the wire. >
Thanks for sharing the use case. Will it be an issue that multiple cores may be sending to the same TxQ? I didn't check to see if there is locking provided in the app. > This new topo is useful for such cases. > > BRs, > Wisam jaddo >
