Re: [PATCH] examples: new txburst application

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

2015-01-30 16:29, Bhavesh Davda:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> > Hi Bhavesh,
> > 
> > 2014-11-18 10:32, Bhavesh Davda:
> > > Test application to transmit 32-packet bursts of 220-byte UDP packets
> > every
> > > 50 us, approximating 240,000 pps. We found it useful for testing
> > hypervisor
> > > performance for a transmit-heavy but bursty workload in a VM with
> > DPDK.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh-pghWNbHTmq7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> > 
> > There was no review of your patch.
> > Maybe you should explain why you think it should be integrated as an
> > example.
> > What is new compared to other examples?
> 
> [Bhavesh Davda] Thanks for catching that. I was wondering why nobody 
responded.
> 
> I leave it up to you and the wider DPDK community to decide if this example
> is useful. It was useful to us (VMware) and a couple of partner companies in
> reproducing a packet drop on transmit issue at a telco/NFV operator lab more
> easily than setting up the DPDK-based VNF from the vendor along with a
> hardware load generator to generate the application-specific packet load. It
> was much easier to just run this example application in a VM to reproduce
> the packet drop issue.
> 
> What is different? I didn't find any other simple apps that only mimic Tx
> bursty behavior similar to this application. Maybe I missed some example
> application that has such a capability.

Did you know pktgen-dpdk?
http://dpdk.org/browse/apps/pktgen-dpdk/tree/README.md

Do you think it could replace your application?

-- 
Thomas