From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yerden Zhumabekov Subject: Re: random pkt generator PMD Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:11:39 +0600 Message-ID: <576145FB.2000902@sts.kz> References: <5761235C.2090906@sts.kz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: DPDK To: Jay Rolette Return-path: Received: from mgw.gov.kz (mgw.gov.kz [195.12.113.254]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039ABC47A for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:11:40 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 15.06.2016 17:50, Jay Rolette wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Yerden Zhumabekov > wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> DPDK already got a number of PMDs for various eth devices, it even has PMD >> emulations for backends such as pcap, sw rings etc. >> >> I've been thinking about the idea of having PMD which would generate mbufs >> on the fly in some randomized fashion. This would serve goals like, for >> example: >> >> 1) running tests for applications with network processing capabilities >> without additional software packet generators; >> 2) making performance measurements with no hw inteference; >> 3) ability to run without root privileges, --no-pci, --no-huge, for CI >> build, so on. >> >> Maybe there's no such need, and these goals may be achieved by other means >> and this idea is flawed? Any thoughts? >> > Are you thinking of something along the lines of what BreakingPoint (now > part of Ixia) does, but as an open source software tool? > More dreaming than thinking though :) Live flows generation, malware, attacks simulation etc is way out of scope of PMD dev, I guess.