On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 02:41:05AM -0400, Victor Kaplansky wrote: > > This RFC patch propose enhancements to testpmd to simulate > more realistic behavior of a guest machine engaged in receiving > and sending packets performing Virtual Network Function (VNF). > > The goal is to enable simple of measuring performance impact on cache and > memory footprint utilization from various VNF co-located on the > same host machine. > > This series of patches adds the new command line switches to > testpmd: > Hi,
while I think this functionality is of use, I don't think it should go into testpmd. Testpmd is designed for testing NIC PMDs, and not as a general test tool, and is already complicated enough with lots of commandline options. For the task of testing VNF use-cases, I think a new separate app or example would be better. My 2c. /Bruce
