[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] testpmd load cmdline commands from file

Allain Legacy allain.legacy at windriver.com
Fri Mar 31 21:13:18 CEST 2017


Enhancing test-pmd to be able to load CLI commands from file both at
runtime and at startup.  Usually the number of commands to run is small
enough that a simple cut-n-paste does the trick, but while testing the flow
API it was necessary to load several hundred commands and cut-n-paste could
not keep up.

I started with adding support to load the commands at startup
(--cmdline-file=/home/ubuntu/somefile.txt), but then realized that I needed
to remove/re-add commands at runtime so I added CLI commands to take care
of that aspect as well ("testpmd> load /home/ubuntu/somefile.txt")

I thought of removing the startup command support since the same could be
accomplished by using the new "load" command once the process starts up,
but then I realized that it may be useful for someone using non-interactive
mode.

I am open to the idea of squashing both commits together if necessary.


Allain Legacy (2):
  app/testpmd: load cmdline commands on startup
  app/testpmd: load cmdline commands at runtime

 app/test-pmd/cmdline.c    | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 app/test-pmd/parameters.c | 10 +++++++++
 app/test-pmd/testpmd.c    |  4 ++++
 app/test-pmd/testpmd.h    |  2 ++
 4 files changed, 72 insertions(+)

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