On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 7:16 PM Wisam Jaddo <wis...@mellanox.com> wrote:
Thanks for this application. Useful stuff. > > Introducing new application for rte_flow performance > testing. The application provide the ability to test > insertion rate of specific rte_flow rule, by stressing > it to the NIC, and calculate the insertion rate. > > It also provides packet per second measurements > after the insertion operation is done. > > The application offers some options in the command > line, to configure which rule to apply. > > After that the application will start producing rules > with same pattern but increasing the outer IP source > address by 1 each time, thus it will give different > flow each time, and all other items will have open masks. > > The current design have single core insertion rate. > In the future we may have a multi core insertion rate > measurement support in the app. If I understand correctly, # On the main thread, this application first check the flow insertion performance # and then start the worker thread for packet forwarding. Why this application testing the packet forwarding?, We already have testpmd for that. IMO, This application needs to focus only on - Insertion performance - Deletion performance - IMO, it is better to add a framework for the profile where the first version of this application can define common a set of ITEMS and set of ACTION and later others can extend it. And the framework can run over all the profiles and spit out the insertion and deletion performance. > > The app supports single and multi core performance > measurements. > > Signed-off-by: Wisam Jaddo <wis...@mellanox.com> > --- > app/Makefile | 1 + > app/meson.build | 1 + # Update MAINTAINERS file # Add doc for this test under doc/guides/tools/ # Please update release notes
