From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Turull Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pktgen: increasing transmission granularity Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:49:57 +0200 Message-ID: <4C10A735.20405@gmail.com> References: <4C064533.6070709@gmail.com> <20100609.135040.193710199.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, robert@herjulf.net, jens.laas@its.uu.se To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:4931 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752822Ab0FJIty (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:49:54 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 25so3679eya.19 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:49:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100609.135040.193710199.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This patch increases the granularity of the rate generated by pktgen. The previous version of pktgen uses micro seconds (udelay) resolution when it was delayed causing gaps in the rates. It is changed to nanosecond (ndelay). Now any rate is possible. Also it allows to set, the desired rate in Mb/s or packets per second. The documentation has been updated. Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull --- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt index 61bb645..75e4fd7 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt @@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ Examples: pgset stop aborts injection. Also, ^C aborts generator. + pgset "rate 300M" set rate to 300 Mb/s + pgset "ratep 1000000" set rate to 1Mpps Example scripts =============== @@ -241,6 +243,9 @@ src6 flows flowlen +rate +ratep + References: ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/pktgen-testing/ ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/pktgen-testing/examples/ diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c index 1dacd7b..6428653 100644 --- a/net/core/pktgen.c +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ #include #include /* do_div */ -#define VERSION "2.73" +#define VERSION "2.74" #define IP_NAME_SZ 32 #define MAX_MPLS_LABELS 16 /* This is the max label stack depth */ #define MPLS_STACK_BOTTOM htonl(0x00000100) @@ -980,6 +980,40 @@ static ssize_t pktgen_if_write(struct file *file, (unsigned long long) pkt_dev->delay); return count; } + if (!strcmp(name, "rate")) { + len = num_arg(&user_buffer[i], 10, &value); + if (len < 0) + return len; + + i += len; + if (!value) + return len; + pkt_dev->delay = pkt_dev->min_pkt_size*8*NSEC_PER_USEC/value; + if (debug) + printk(KERN_INFO + "pktgen: Delay set at: %llu ns\n", + pkt_dev->delay); + + sprintf(pg_result, "OK: rate=%lu", value); + return count; + } + if (!strcmp(name, "ratep")) { + len = num_arg(&user_buffer[i], 10, &value); + if (len < 0) + return len; + + i += len; + if (!value) + return len; + pkt_dev->delay = NSEC_PER_SEC/value; + if (debug) + printk(KERN_INFO + "pktgen: Delay set at: %llu ns\n", + pkt_dev->delay); + + sprintf(pg_result, "OK: rate=%lu", value); + return count; + } if (!strcmp(name, "udp_src_min")) { len = num_arg(&user_buffer[i], 10, &value); if (len < 0) @@ -2142,15 +2176,15 @@ static void spin(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev, ktime_t spin_until) hrtimer_init_on_stack(&t.timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS); hrtimer_set_expires(&t.timer, spin_until); - remaining = ktime_to_us(hrtimer_expires_remaining(&t.timer)); + remaining = ktime_to_ns(hrtimer_expires_remaining(&t.timer)); if (remaining <= 0) { pkt_dev->next_tx = ktime_add_ns(spin_until, pkt_dev->delay); return; } start_time = ktime_now(); - if (remaining < 100) - udelay(remaining); /* really small just spin */ + if (remaining < 100000) + ndelay(remaining); /* really small just spin */ else { /* see do_nanosleep */ hrtimer_init_sleeper(&t, current);