This command line option would be interpreted by the application. But the application needs a function for setting an interface (pktio instance) in promiscuous mode. Yet another missing piece of API.
On 21 August 2014 11:27, Venkatesh Vivekanandan < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 21 August 2014 14:27, Santosh Shukla <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 21 August 2014 14:24, Ola Liljedahl <[email protected]> wrote: >> > You are not always setting promiscuous mode on network interfaces in >> > ODP/linux-dpdk? Promiscuous mode should only be enabled when the >> application >> > requires it. The l2fwd (is this the DPDK port? "passthrough" would be a >> > better name) application could have a command line option which requests >> > promiscuous mode on the used network interfaces. >> > >> >> Even better. Make sense to me. I'll spin the patch and do the changes >> in l2fwd cli interface accordingly. >> >> There is no way one can pass the command line parameters to the > implementation currently, once that gets in then we can make it a user > configurable parameter. For now, we don't have a choice other than keeping > them enabled. > > >> > >> > On 21 August 2014 08:57, Santosh Shukla <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Noticed that enabling promiscous mode helps l2fwd application work with >> >> pktgen >> >> or dpdk-pktgen >> >> >> >> Suggested-by: Venkatesh Vivekanandan < >> [email protected]> >> >> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <[email protected]> >> >> --- >> >> platform/linux-dpdk/odp_packet_dpdk.c | 3 +++ >> >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) >> >> >> >> diff --git a/platform/linux-dpdk/odp_packet_dpdk.c >> >> b/platform/linux-dpdk/odp_packet_dpdk.c >> >> index d5c8e80..92edac5 100644 >> >> --- a/platform/linux-dpdk/odp_packet_dpdk.c >> >> +++ b/platform/linux-dpdk/odp_packet_dpdk.c >> >> @@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ int setup_pkt_dpdk(pkt_dpdk_t * const pkt_dpdk, >> const >> >> char *netdev, >> >> ODP_DBG("dpdk tx queue setup done\n"); >> >> } >> >> >> >> + /* Enable promiscous mode */ >> >> + rte_eth_promiscuous_enable(portid); >> >> + >> >> /* Start device */ >> >> ret = rte_eth_dev_start(portid); >> >> if (ret < 0) >> >> -- >> >> 1.7.9.5 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> lng-odp mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/lng-odp >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lng-odp mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/lng-odp >> > >
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