On 2/18/2023 11:47 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > 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. >
I would be great to get some feedback from techboard. >> 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. >> >
