[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] l2fwd: keep alive sample application

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Oct 27 11:10:23 CET 2015


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 08:48:41AM +0000, Remy Horton wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23/10/2015 15:23, Tahhan, Maryam wrote:
> 
> >>  # binary name
> >>-APP = l2fwd
> >>+APP = l2fwd-keepalive
> >Hi Remy,
> >Looks great overall, just a couple of comments
> >For backward compatibility the rename could be a nightmare? What do you think?
> 
> True. Undecided whether to change the Makefile(s) so that both keepalive and
> non-keepalive l2fwd are built, or to simply clone all of l2fwd..
> 

My opinion is that l2fwd should be kept as simple as possible, so I'd suggest
cloning to provide a separate keepalive example.

/Bruce



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