Tuesday, June 26, 2018 4:39 PM, Ferruh Yigit: > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] testpmd: add forwarding mode to > simulate a noisy neighbour > > On 6/26/2018 1:17 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote: > > HI Maxime, Jens > > > > Saturday, June 23, 2018 11:09 AM, Maxime Coquelin: > >> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] testpmd: add forwarding mode to > >> simulate a noisy neighbour > >> > >> From: Jens Freimann <jfreim...@redhat.com> > >> > >> This adds a new forwarding mode to testpmd to simulate more realistic > >> behavior of a guest machine engaged in receiving and sending packets > >> performing Virtual Network Function (VNF). > > > > I really like the idea of adding application w/ more realistic behavior to > > the > DPDK tree in order to use them in the non-regression cycle. > > > > I am just wondering if putting it as another forward engine in testpmd is > the right place for it. > > Hi Shahaf, > > This was the request in old review comments. As you said it is good to have > more realistic behavior but also we would like to test/use io forwarding, so > new forwarding engine is way of having both two.
Sorry, I missed reading the previous comments. As I said, there are upsides and downsides to it. I still think it deserve a separate example but we can start inside testpmd and move it to other location when needed.
