[dts] test_plans/pmdrssreta: make RSS RETA test plan generic
Rami Rosen
rami.rosen at huawei.com
Tue Apr 16 08:19:44 CEST 2019
Following a patch which was applied recently, the RSS RETA Test Suite
(tests/TestSuite_pmdrssreta.py) runs also on Huawei hinic PMD, and is
no longer specific to Niantic PMD.
See: http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dts/2019-April/005653.html
This patch fixes the RSS RETA test plan accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <rami.rosen at huawei.com>
---
test_plans/pmdrssreta_test_plan.rst | 21 ++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/test_plans/pmdrssreta_test_plan.rst b/test_plans/pmdrssreta_test_plan.rst
index 09f69c1..82b2203
--- a/test_plans/pmdrssreta_test_plan.rst
+++ b/test_plans/pmdrssreta_test_plan.rst
@@ -31,12 +31,11 @@
OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
======================================
-Niantic Reta (Redirection table) Tests
+Network PMD Reta (Redirection table) Tests
======================================
This document provides test plan for benchmarking of Rss reta(Redirection
-table) updating for the Intel(r) 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
-(Niantic) Poll Mode Driver (PMD) in userland runtime configurations.
+table) updating for a network Poll Mode Driver (PMD) in userland runtime configurations.
The content of Rss Redirection table are not defined following reset
of the Memory Configuration registers. System software must initialize
the table prior to enabling multiple receive queues .It can also update
@@ -46,11 +45,7 @@ not synchronized with the arrival time of received packets.
Prerequisites
=============
-2x Intel(r) 82599 (Niantic) NICs (2x 10GbE full duplex optical ports per NIC)
-plugged into the available PCIe Gen2 8-lane slots. To avoid PCIe bandwidth
-bottlenecks at high packet rates, a single optical port from each NIC is
-connected to the traffic generator.
-
+2x NICs plugged into the available PCIe Gen2 or Gen3 slots.
Network Traffic
---------------
@@ -59,16 +54,16 @@ The RSS feature is designed to improve networking performance by load balancing
the packets received from a NIC port to multiple NIC RX queues, with each queue
handled by a different logical core.
-#. The receive packet is parsed into the header fields used by the hash
+#. The received packet is parsed into the header fields used by the hash
operation (such as IP addresses, TCP port, etc.)
-#. A hash calculation is performed. The 82599 supports a single hash function,
+#. A hash calculation is performed. In the case of 82599 PMD, it supports a single hash function,
as defined by MSFT RSS. The 82599 therefore does not indicate to the device
- driver which hash function is used. The 32-bit result is fed into the
+ driver whose hash function is used. The 32-bit result is fed into the
packet receive descriptor.
-#. The seven LSBs of the hash result are used as an index into a 128-entry
- 'redirection table'. Each entry provides a 4-bit RSS output index.
+#. In the case of 82599 PMD, the seven LSBs of the hash result are used as an index
+into a 128-entry 'redirection table'. Each entry provides a 4-bit RSS output index.
The RSS RETA update feature is designed to make RSS more flexible by allowing
users to define the correspondence between the seven LSBs of hash result and
--
1.8.3.1
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