Dear Satish, Your question indicates what you are missing basic understanding of how VPP works (i.e. fact that all nodes are running on the same thread). I suggest that you go trough series of videos available on the youtube, some of them are explaining how that works.
Regards, Damjan > On 25 Jun 2018, at 14:47, satishp <satishpitchik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Dave for your reply. > Below is my usecase: > Currently I have a single worker thread processing traffic. To scale the > throughput, I would like to 'handoff' some packet processing to second worker > thread. I would like to do this dynamically(i.e handoff packet from any node > based on a cli command). > > For example: > node1(on worker 1) => handoff=> node2(on worker 2) > node1, node2 are inputs to cli which should setup this flow. > > Currently, I was able to handoff between two fixed nodes(using readily > available handoff nodes). I'm now trying to extend this to any two nodes. > > Best Regards, > Satish > > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 5:25 PM, Dave Barach (dbarach) <dbar...@cisco.com > <mailto:dbar...@cisco.com>> wrote: > What you’re describing is at least marginally possible, but before I describe > how one might do such a thing I want to know why you plan to do it. There are > far less invasive techniques already available, e.g. for adding features. > > > > HTH... Dave > > > > From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io <mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io > <mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io>> On Behalf Of satish pitchikala > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 2:30 AM > To: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io <mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> > Subject: [vpp-dev] Adding a node dynamically between any two nodes > > > > Hi, > > My requirement is to add a node at runtime between any two nodes. Addition is > to be done via cli. > > > > eg: set handoff node1 node2 > > > > 1. This should create a node by name node1_handoff_node2. > > 2. node1_handoff_node2 previous node should be node1 > > 3. node1_handoff_node2 next node should be node2 > > > > I tried using VLIB_NODE_TYPE_PROCESS to create a node inside cli It creates a > node but couldn't insert it between node 1 and node 2. > > > > Request for some pointers in this regard. > > > > Best Regards, > > Satish P > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9692): https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/message/9692 Mute This Topic: https://lists.fd.io/mt/22674708/21656 Group Owner: vpp-dev+ow...@lists.fd.io Unsubscribe: https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
