On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 01:27:29PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote: > Test-pmd already has a way to run a list of commands from file, but there > is no way to pause execution for a specified amount of time between two > commands. This may be necessary for simple automation, particularly for > waiting on some asynchronous operation such as link status update. > > Add a simple sleep command to wait until certain number of milliseconds has > passed. > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> > --- > app/test-pmd/cmdline.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c b/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c > index d4bb3ec998..1e429e6d0a 100644 > --- a/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c > +++ b/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c > @@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ static void cmd_help_long_parsed(void *parsed_result, > > "quit\n" > " Quit to prompt.\n\n" > + > + "sleep ms\n" > + " Sleep for ms milliseconds.\n\n" > ); > } >
A "sleep" command, I would expect to sleep for a certain number of seconds, for compatibility e.g. with terminal "sleep" command. To keep this as "ms" granularity, how about making it explicit as a "sleep_ms" command. Alternatively, how about adding a usleep command? [Not sure "msleep" works, which is why I suggested sleep_ms instead] /Bruce
