Hi Shahaf, Thanks for the information, I am looking into it :) I had some compilation issues when trying to port rte_flow from DPDK 17.02 into an external application but these issues go away if I use 17.08.
Best regards, Georgios On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Shahaf Shuler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Georgios, > > Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:09 AM, Georgios Katsikas: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to implement a DPDK application that dumps a set of rules > to a > > Mellanox ConnectX-5 NIC and starts a number of threads (each on a > > different > > core) that receive the classified packets according to the rules. > > The rules are of the form src IP X and dst IP Y --> Send to core Z. > > > > Is there such an application (or similar) in the source tree? > > You can use testpmd for that. Run in isolate mode and add rte_flow rules > to direct IP packets to the specific queue that you want. > > > Does the Mellanox > > NIC require any special treatment or is there a unified API to do this > job > > regardless of the NIC? > > There Is a unified API. look into rte_flow: > http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.html > > > Which DPDK version do you propose? > > The latest one - v17.08 > > > > > Thanks, > > -- > > Georgios Katsikas > > Industrial Ph.D. Student > > Network Intelligence Group > > Decision, Networks, and Analytics (DNA) Lab RISE SICS > > E-Mail: [email protected] > -- Georgios Katsikas Industrial Ph.D. Student Network Intelligence Group Decision, Networks, and Analytics (DNA) Lab RISE SICS E-Mail: [email protected]
