On 10/11/2022 1:10 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
This is a new PMD which can be useful to test a DPDK application from another test program. The PMD binds to a connected UDP socket and expects to receive and send raw Ethernet packets over that socket.
Why is the 'connected UDP socket' requirement? I guess this maps with 'SO_REUSEPORT' in the code.
This is especially useful for testing envirionments where you can't/don't want to give the test driver program route permission. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger<step...@networkplumber.org> --- This is 1st draft port of some test infrastructure to get feedback and comments from community. Later version will include an example and unit tests.
I think pcap PMD can be used for similar testing purposed, but we can have UDP PMD too, it may open other possibilities as a method to communicate with other non-dpdk applications.
Although this is draft I will put some comments in other thread for next version.
