On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov at sts.kz> wrote:
> Hello everybody, > > DPDK already got a number of PMDs for various eth devices, it even has PMD > emulations for backends such as pcap, sw rings etc. > > I've been thinking about the idea of having PMD which would generate mbufs > on the fly in some randomized fashion. This would serve goals like, for > example: > > 1) running tests for applications with network processing capabilities > without additional software packet generators; > 2) making performance measurements with no hw inteference; > 3) ability to run without root privileges, --no-pci, --no-huge, for CI > build, so on. > > Maybe there's no such need, and these goals may be achieved by other means > and this idea is flawed? Any thoughts? > Are you thinking of something along the lines of what BreakingPoint (now part of Ixia) does, but as an open source software tool?
