Re: [vpp-dev] Packet tx functions via DPDK

2018-05-14 Thread Prashant Upadhyaya
Thanks a bunch Nitin, your mail helps me connect the dots -- the thing I was missing was the connection with ethernet_register_interface() Cool browsing done by you ! Please do check my other mail too on the list (for frames) and it would be great if we can drill down on that topic too. Regards

Re: [vpp-dev] Packet tx functions via DPDK

2018-05-11 Thread Nitin Saxena
Hi Prashant, Hope you are doing fine. Regarding your question, I am not able to see macswap plugin in current master branch but I will try to explain wrt dpdk_plugin: With respect to low level device each VPP device driver registers for 1) INPUT_NODE (For Rx) VLIB_REGISTER_NODE (This you

[vpp-dev] Packet tx functions via DPDK

2018-05-10 Thread Prashant Upadhyaya
Hi, I am trying to walk throught the code to see how the packet arrives into the system at dpdk rx side and finally leaves it at the dpdk tx side. I am using the context of the macswap sample plugin for this. It is clear to me that dpdk-input is a graph node and it is an 'input' type graph node