On Mon, 27 May 2013 20:15:23 -0700 Emre Eraltan <emre.eraltan at 6wind.com> wrote:
> Hello Shinae, > > Did you try to use the testpmd tool with multiple queues per port? It > gives you more flexibility compared to l2fwd app. > > You need to trigger the RSS feature of the NIC by sending different > streams (just by changing the destination port for instance or any > information in the 5-tuple). This will load balance your packets among > several cores so that you can probe multiple queues with different > cores. Otherwise, you will use only one core (or thread if HT is > enabled) per port for the RX side. > > Best Regards, > Emre > I wrote a partial baked version of pktgen for DPDK. Let me see if I can get ok to release and clean it up. Windriver has one as well, and they use it in their demo clases. Not sure why it never got included.