[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] examples/l2fwd: Add option to enable/disable MAC addresses updating

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu Oct 13 09:26:03 CEST 2016


2016-09-23 15:50, Maxime Coquelin:
> This series adds a new option to enable/disable MAC addresses updating in
> l2fwd example.
> 
> Doing that, we can enable basic VM 2 VM communication easily, without
> external projects dependencies, nor real NIC (as with vhost example).
> 
> Example of cli with vhost-user:
> 
> #l2fwd -c f --socket-mem=1024 \
> 	--vdev 'eth_vhost0,iface=/tmp/vhost-user1,queues=1' \
> 	--vdev 'eth_vhost1,iface=/tmp/vhost-user2,queues=1' \
> 	-- -p3 --no-mac-updating
> 
> By default, MAC addresses updating remains enabled, but maybe we could
> consider having it disabled by default to be consistent with l2fwd-cat
> for example.

Applied (as a single patch), thanks


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