Thanks for your feedback. V3 patch set will follow your guide.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Wu, Jingjing > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 5:05 PM > To: Dai, Wei <wei....@intel.com>; tho...@monjalon.net; Lu, Wenzhuo > <wenzhuo...@intel.com>; Ananyev, Konstantin > <konstantin.anan...@intel.com>; Zhang, Helin <helin.zh...@intel.com> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 5/5] app/testpmd: add command to test NIC restoration > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dai, Wei > > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 10:07 PM > > To: tho...@monjalon.net; Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo...@intel.com>; Ananyev, > > Konstantin <konstantin.anan...@intel.com>; Zhang, Helin > > <helin.zh...@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing...@intel.com> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Dai, Wei <wei....@intel.com> > > Subject: [PATCH v2 5/5] app/testpmd: add command to test NIC > > restoration > > > > When a NIC is reset, a message will show it. > > And then user can run the command "reset_port port_id" > > to reset the port and to keep same port id without any without any > > configuration. > > This patch adds a testpmd command "reconfig_port port_id" > > to test whether the port can be reconfigured to have success Rx and Tx > function. > > The new command will configure the port with the simplest setting > > which includes only 1 Rx queue, only 1 Tx queue, Rx mode = None and Tx > > mode = None. > > It check if the port can receive and forward some packets. > > For example 100 packets in this new command. > > Before testing with "reset_port port_id" and then "reconfig_port > > port_id", current forwarding should be stopped first to avoid crash. > > > > Testpmd has mechanism to support reconfigure, you can check the > need_reconfig Field in port struct. > No need to define a new command. > > > Thanks > Jingjing