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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@iogearbox.net>,
	Robert Olsson <robert@herjulf.se>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 04/10] pktgen: document ability to add same device to several threads
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 14:54:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <555BB105.8060307@plumgrid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150519213548.9070.25035.stgit@ivy>

On 5/19/15 2:35 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> The pktgen.txt documentation still claimed that adding same device to
> multiple threads were not supported, but it have been since 2008 via
> commit e6fce5b916cd7 ("pktgen: multiqueue etc.").
>
> Document this and describe the naming scheme dev@X, as the procfile name
> still need to be unique.
>
> Fixes: e6fce5b916cd7 ("pktgen: multiqueue etc.")
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
...
> -Most important are the devices assigned to the thread.  Note that a
> -device can only belong to one thread.
> +The two basic thread commands are:
> + * add_device DEVICE@NAME -- adds a single device

Great work for the whole series!
Wanted to specifically
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
this patch, since it could have saved me days of pointlessly
reimplementing existing feature and likely will help others
in the future. People do read docs :)

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-19 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-19 21:35 [net-next PATCH 00/10] pktgen: cleanups and introducing new samples/pktgen scripts Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-19 21:35 ` [net-next PATCH 01/10] pktgen: remove obsolete "max_before_softirq" from pktgen doc Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-19 21:35 ` [net-next PATCH 02/10] pktgen: adjust spacing in proc file interface output Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-19 21:35 ` [net-next PATCH 03/10] pktgen: doc were missing several config options Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-19 21:35 ` [net-next PATCH 04/10] pktgen: document ability to add same device to several threads Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-19 21:54   ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2015-05-19 21:35 ` [net-next PATCH 05/10] pktgen: make /proc/net/pktgen/pgctrl report fail on invalid input Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-19 21:36 ` [net-next PATCH 06/10] pktgen: new pktgen helper functions for samples scripts Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-20 21:23   ` Cong Wang
2015-05-21  9:18     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-19 21:36 ` [net-next PATCH 07/10] pktgen: add sample script pktgen_sample01_simple.sh Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-19 21:36 ` [net-next PATCH 08/10] pktgen: add sample script pktgen_sample02_multiqueue.sh Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-19 21:36 ` [net-next PATCH 09/10] pktgen: add sample script pktgen_sample03_burst_single_flow.sh Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-20 21:33   ` Cong Wang
2015-05-21  9:47     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2015-05-19 21:36 ` [net-next PATCH 10/10] pktgen: add benchmark script pktgen_bench_xmit_mode_netif_receive.sh Jesper Dangaard Brouer

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