On 2/18/2023 11:06 AM, wushaohua wrote: > > 在 2023/2/18 4:43, Ferruh Yigit 写道: >> On 1/3/2023 2:30 AM, wushao...@chinatelecom.cn wrote: >>> From: Shaohua Wu <wushao...@chinatelecom.cn> >>> >>> Add the vxlan packet sending module to actively send >>> vxlan packets using a common network adapter. >>> The default vni is 1000. >>> example: >>> ./dpdk-testpmd -l 32-47 -n 16 --file-prefix pg0 -- -i >>> --rxq=16 --txq=16 --rxd=1024 --txd=1024 >>> --txpkts=64 --burst=64 --mbuf-size=4096 >>> --nb-cores=15 --underlay_tx_only >>> --underlay-eth-peer=0,f0:00:00:00:00:66 >>> --eth-peer=0,08:c0:eb:3e:87:af >>> --utx-ip=11.0.0.1,11.0.0.2 >>> --tx-ip=30.0.0.1,30.0.0.2 >>> --forward-mode=tuntxonly >>> --txonly-multi-flow >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Wu <wushao...@chinatelecom.cn> >> Hi Shaohua, >> >> This is a good feature but I am not sure if this is in the scope of >> testpmd application. >> >> Testpmd has basic packet generation capabilities, and it is useful for >> quick/dirty testing, but for more advanced packet generation perhaps >> other tools like pktgen [1] can be used, what do you think? >> >> What is the justification to have this feature in testpmd, and what is >> your usecase? >> >> >> [1] >> https://git.dpdk.org/apps/pktgen-dpdk/ > > Hi Ferruh， > > Thank you for your review.From what I know now pktgen doesn't seem to support > the construction of vxlan packets. >
I was asking if it makes sense to add this support to pktgen, instead of testpmd. > In a real test scenario, testpmd only sends bare packets and cannot cover > test scenarios, such as ovs decap performance. > Currently, testpmd of this patch is used, and the packet sending performance > is 22+Mpps with a 25G network adapter. > > This is necessary for testing DPU devices or virtualization scenarios. >
