Re: [PATCH 00/33] introduce generic eventdev test application framework

["Van Haaren, Harry" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>]

> From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 8:58 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; Van Haaren, Harry
> <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>; hemant.agrawal@nxp.com; Eads, Gage <gage.eads@intel.com>;
> nipun.gupta@nxp.com; Vangati, Narender <narender.vangati@intel.com>; Rao, Nikhil
> <nikhil.rao@intel.com>; gprathyusha@caviumnetworks.com; Jerin Jacob
> <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/33] introduce generic eventdev test application framework
> 
> The dpdk-test-eventdev tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
> application that allows exercising various eventdev use cases. This
> application has a generic framework to add new eventdev based test cases
> to verify functionality and measure the performance parameters of DPDK
> eventdev devices.
> 
> This patch set adds the infrastructure for the generic eventdev test cases
> framework with four test cases.
> 
> 1)perf_queue: test to measure the throughput and forward latency of eventdev
> pipeline on different PMDs
> 2)perf_atq: functionally same as perf_queue. But using "all type queues"
> eventdev infrastructure
> 3)order_queue: test to verify the ingress event ordering and atomic
> schedule type
> 4)order_atq: functionally same as order_queue. But using "all types queues"
> eventdev infrastructure.
> 
> The tests are verified using both HW(OCTEONTX) and SW eventdev PMDs.
> 
> We need minor changes in the API specification to run this test cases on HW PMD.
> I will send those patches separately.
> 
> Since "all type queues" is not currently supported in SW implementation.
> "All types queue" based tests returns "unsupported" on SW PMD.
> 
> Added detailed documentation for test operation and usage with diagrams in the
> last five patches in the series.
> 
> /Jerin


Nice work here - and a good idea to ensure standard tests can be performed against all PMDs.
I'll reply to a few patchset with particulars, in general this looks good to me.

-Harry