[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] examples/l3fwd: pass flow arguments when start app

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Oct 24 23:44:55 CEST 2017


24/10/2017 03:38, Wu, Jingjing:
> From: Li, Xiaoyun
> > To make the performance can be tuning on different NICs or platforms. We
> > need to make the number of descriptors as arguments when starting l3fwd
> > application.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>
> 
> Agree to this change.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>

As Stephen, I disagree.

I agree that it may be convenient to test performance tuning.
But it is the purpose of testpmd, not l3fwd example.

This change shows that we need to improve defaults.
I will block this patch in order to get someone working on improvements
in ethdev and drivers.



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