Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] netdev-dpdk: add DPDK pdump capability

2016-08-10 Thread Daniele Di Proietto
2016-08-10 7:29 GMT-07:00 Loftus, Ciara : > > > > This is interesting, thanks for working on this. > > The patch looks pretty simple, most of the magic happens in DPDK, so I > will > > comment only on the OvS side of things. > > Why is 'other_config:dpdk-pdump' required? Can't we always enable th

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] netdev-dpdk: add DPDK pdump capability

2016-08-10 Thread Loftus, Ciara
> > This is interesting, thanks for working on this. > The patch looks pretty simple, most of the magic happens in DPDK, so I will > comment only on the OvS side of things. > Why is 'other_config:dpdk-pdump' required?  Can't we always enable the > feature?  I tried running with it and I didn't not

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] netdev-dpdk: add DPDK pdump capability

2016-08-09 Thread Daniele Di Proietto
This is interesting, thanks for working on this. The patch looks pretty simple, most of the magic happens in DPDK, so I will comment only on the OvS side of things. Why is 'other_config:dpdk-pdump' required? Can't we always enable the feature? I tried running with it and I didn't notice any slo

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] netdev-dpdk: add DPDK pdump capability

2016-08-04 Thread Ciara Loftus
This commit provides the ability to 'listen' on DPDK ports and save packets to a pcap file with a DPDK app that uses the librte_pdump library. One such app is the 'pdump' app that can be found in the DPDK 'app' directory. Instructions on how to use this can be found in INSTALL.DPDK-ADVANCED.md The