[dts] test_plans/pmdrssreta: make RSS RETA test plan generic

[Rami Rosen]

Hi, Lijuan,
>Could you please rework your patch, applied failed as below:

>Applying patch test_plans/pmdrssreta_test_plan.rst with 2 rejects...
>Rejected hunk #1.
>Rejected hunk #2.
>Hunk #3 applied cleanly.


Sure, I will resend. It is not a matter of rebase, it is simply as a result of 
my email client hiccups, apologies. 

Regards,
Rami

-----Original Message-----
From: Tu, Lijuan [mailto:lijuan.tu at intel.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 2:24 AM
To: Rami Rosen <rami.rosen at huawei.com>; dts at dpdk.org
Subject: RE: test_plans/pmdrssreta: make RSS RETA test plan generic

Could you please rework your patch, applied failed as below:

Applying patch test_plans/pmdrssreta_test_plan.rst with 2 rejects...
Rejected hunk #1.
Rejected hunk #2.
Hunk #3 applied cleanly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dts [mailto:dts-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Rami Rosen
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2019 11:20 PM
> To: dts at dpdk.org
> Cc: Rami Rosen <rami.rosen at huawei.com>
> Subject: [dts] test_plans/pmdrssreta: make RSS RETA test plan generic
> 
> 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