On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:21 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > > 20/03/2020 07:49, Jerin Jacob: > > 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. > > I think it is interesting to measure forwarding performance > when million of flow rules are in effect.
The rules are applied to the HW CAM, Right? Do you see any performance difference? > > > 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. > > What do you call a profile? Is it a set of rules? set of rules and/or actions. > I think this first version is proposing rules customization with parameters. Just that it better to have a framework where one can easily add new profiles and test various combos. IMO, Cascade rules take more insertion time. > Note: I prefer a non-interactive application for performance testing. Me too. Command-line is fine. > > > > The app supports single and multi core performance > > > measurements. > > >
