On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 13:11:07 -0700 Joshua Washington <joshw...@google.com> wrote:
> Google cloud routes traffic using IP addesses without the support of MAC > addresses, so changing source IP address for txonly-multi-flow can have > negative performance implications for net/gve when using testpmd. This > change adds a new flag --txonly-alter-port, which allows the alteration > of source port instead of source IP address for txonly multiflow mode. > > The new flag can be tested with the following command: > dpdk-testpmd -- --forward-mode=txonly --txonly-multi-flow --txonly-alter-port > --txip=<SRC>,<DST> > > Signed-off-by: Joshua Washington <joshw...@google.com> > Reviewed-by: Rushil Gupta <rush...@google.com> > --- Since the purpose of the tuple variation is to get RSS, why not just make the udp port only mode the default. Testpmd doesn't need more options :-)
