On 10/10/2017 11:18 AM, Jasvinder Singh wrote: > This commit extends the testpmd application with new forwarding engine > that demonstrates the use of ethdev traffic management APIs and softnic > PMD for QoS traffic management. > > In this mode, 5-level hierarchical tree of the QoS scheduler is built > with the help of ethdev TM APIs such as shaper profile add/delete, > shared shaper add/update, node add/delete, hierarchy commit, etc. > The hierarchical tree has following nodes; root node(x1, level 0), > subport node(x1, level 1), pipe node(x4096, level 2), > tc node(x16348, level 3), queue node(x65536, level 4). > > During runtime, each received packet is first classified by mapping the > packet fields information to 5-tuples (HQoS subport, pipe, traffic class, > queue within traffic class, and color) and storing it in the packet mbuf > sched field. After classification, each packet is sent to softnic port > which prioritizes the transmission of the received packets, and > accordingly sends them on to the output interface. > > To enable traffic management mode, following testpmd command is used; > > $ ./testpmd -c c -n 4 --vdev > 'net_softnic0,hard_name=0000:06:00.1,soft_tm=on' -- -i > --forward-mode=tm > > Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.si...@intel.com> > Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitre...@intel.com> > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > --- > v8 change: > - fix compilation warning on uninitialsed parameter > > v7 change: > - change port_id type to uint16_t > - rebase on dpdk-next-net > > v5 change: > - add CLI to enable default tm hierarchy > > v3 change: > - Implements feedback from Pablo[1] > - add flag to check required librte_sched lib and softnic pmd > - code cleanup > > v2 change: > - change file name softnictm.c to tm.c > - change forward mode name to "tm" > - code clean up > > [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-September/075744.html > > app/test-pmd/Makefile | 12 + > app/test-pmd/cmdline.c | 88 +++++ > app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 15 + > app/test-pmd/testpmd.h | 46 +++ > app/test-pmd/tm.c | 865 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Testpmd documentation [1] is missing, can you please send a separate patch to update it? I can squash it later into this patch. [1] doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
