1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2 Copyright 2020 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd
7 Application for rte_flow performance testing.
8 The application provide the ability to test insertion rate of specific
9 rte_flow rule, by stressing it to the NIC, and calculate the insertion
12 The application offers some options in the command line, to configure
15 After that the application will start producing rules with same pattern
16 but increasing the outer IP source address by 1 each time, thus it will
17 give different flow each time, and all other items will have open masks.
19 The application also provide the ability to measure rte flow deletion rate,
20 in addition to memory consumption before and after the flows creation.
22 The app supports single and multi core performance measurements.
28 The current version has limitations which can be removed in future:
30 * Single core insertion only.
33 Compiling the Application
34 -------------------------
36 The ``test-flow-perf`` application is compiled as part of the main compilation
37 of the DPDK libraries and tools.
39 Refer to the DPDK Getting Started Guides for details.
42 Running the Application
43 -----------------------
45 EAL Command-line Options
46 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
48 Please refer to :doc:`EAL parameters (Linux) <../linux_gsg/linux_eal_parameters>`
49 or :doc:`EAL parameters (FreeBSD) <../freebsd_gsg/freebsd_eal_parameters>` for
50 a list of available EAL command-line options.
53 Flow Performance Options
54 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
56 The following are the command-line options for the flow performance application.
57 They must be separated from the EAL options, shown in the previous section,
58 with a ``--`` separator:
60 .. code-block:: console
62 sudo ./dpdk-test-flow_perf -n 4 -w 08:00.0 -- --ingress --ether --ipv4 --queue --flows-count=1000000
64 The command line options are:
67 Display a help message and quit.
70 Set the number of needed flows to insert,
71 where 1 <= N <= "number of flows".
72 The default value is 4,000,000.
74 * ``--dump-iterations``
75 Print rates for each iteration of flows.
76 Default iteration is 1,00,000.
79 Enable deletion rate calculations.
81 * ``--dump-socket-mem``
82 Dump the memory stats for each socket before the insertion and after.
85 Enable packets forwarding after insertion/deletion operations.
88 hexadecimal bitmask of ports to be used.
94 Set Ingress attribute to all flows attributes.
97 Set Egress attribute to all flows attributes.
100 Set Transfer attribute to all flows attributes.
103 Set group for all flows, where N >= 0.
109 Add Ether item to all flows items, This item have open mask.
112 Add VLAN item to all flows items,
113 This item have VLAN value defined in user_parameters.h
114 under ``VNI_VALUE`` with full mask, default value = 1.
115 Other fields are open mask.
118 Add IPv4 item to all flows items,
119 This item have incremental source IP, with full mask.
120 Other fields are open mask.
123 Add IPv6 item to all flows item,
124 This item have incremental source IP, with full mask.
125 Other fields are open mask.
128 Add TCP item to all flows items, This item have open mask.
131 Add UDP item to all flows items, This item have open mask.
134 Add VXLAN item to all flows items,
135 This item have VNI value defined in user_parameters.h
136 under ``VNI_VALUE`` with full mask, default value = 1.
137 Other fields are open mask.
140 Add VXLAN-GPE item to all flows items,
141 This item have VNI value defined in user_parameters.h
142 under ``VNI_VALUE`` with full mask, default value = 1.
143 Other fields are open mask.
146 Add GRE item to all flows items,
147 This item have protocol value defined in user_parameters.h
148 under ``GRE_PROTO`` with full mask, default protocol = 0x6558 "Ether"
149 Other fields are open mask.
152 Add GENEVE item to all flows items,
153 This item have VNI value defined in user_parameters.h
154 under ``VNI_VALUE`` with full mask, default value = 1.
155 Other fields are open mask.
158 Add GTP item to all flows items,
159 This item have TEID value defined in user_parameters.h
160 under ``TEID_VALUE`` with full mask, default value = 1.
161 Other fields are open mask.
164 Add Meta item to all flows items,
165 This item have data value defined in user_parameters.h
166 under ``META_DATA`` with full mask, default value = 1.
167 Other fields are open mask.
170 Add Tag item to all flows items,
171 This item have data value defined in user_parameters.h
172 under ``META_DATA`` with full mask, default value = 1.
174 Also it have tag value defined in user_parameters.h
175 under ``TAG_INDEX`` with full mask, default value = 0.
176 Other fields are open mask.
182 Add port redirection action to all flows actions.
183 Port redirection destination is defined in user_parameters.h
184 under PORT_ID_DST, default value = 1.
187 Add RSS action to all flows actions,
188 The queues in RSS action will be all queues configured
192 Add queue action to all flows items,
193 The queue will change in round robin state for each flow.
196 The app running with 4 RX queues
197 Flow #0: queue index 0
198 Flow #1: queue index 1
199 Flow #2: queue index 2
200 Flow #3: queue index 3
201 Flow #4: queue index 0
205 Add jump action to all flows actions.
206 Jump action destination is defined in user_parameters.h
207 under ``JUMP_ACTION_TABLE``, default value = 2.
210 Add mark action to all flows actions.
211 Mark action id is defined in user_parameters.h
212 under ``MARK_ID``, default value = 1.
215 Add count action to all flows actions.
218 Add set-meta action to all flows actions.
219 Meta data is defined in user_parameters.h under ``META_DATA``
220 with full mask, default value = 1.
223 Add set-tag action to all flows actions.
224 Meta data is defined in user_parameters.h under ``META_DATA``
225 with full mask, default value = 1.
227 Tag index is defined in user_parameters.h under ``TAG_INDEX``
228 with full mask, default value = 0.
231 Add drop action to all flows actions.
233 * ``--hairpin-queue=N``
234 Add hairpin queue action to all flows actions.
235 The queue will change in round robin state for each flow.
238 The app running with 4 RX hairpin queues and 4 normal RX queues
239 Flow #0: queue index 4
240 Flow #1: queue index 5
241 Flow #2: queue index 6
242 Flow #3: queue index 7
243 Flow #4: queue index 4
246 * ``--hairpin-rss=N``
247 Add hairpin RSS action to all flows actions.
248 The queues in RSS action will be all hairpin queues configured
252 Add set source mac action to all flows actions.
253 The mac to be set is random each flow.
256 Add set destination mac action to all flows actions.
257 The mac to be set is random each flow.
260 Add set source ipv4 action to all flows actions.
261 The ipv4 header to be set is random each flow.
264 Add set destination ipv4 action to all flows actions.
265 The ipv4 header to be set is random each flow.
268 Add set source ipv6 action to all flows actions.
269 The ipv6 header to be set is random each flow.
272 Add set destination ipv6 action to all flows actions.
273 The ipv6 header to be set is random each flow.
276 Add set source tp action to all flows actions.
277 The tp sport header to be set is random each flow.
280 Add set destination tp action to all flows actions.
281 The tp dport header to be set is random each flow.
284 Add increment TCP acknowledgment by one to all flows actions.
287 Add decrement TCP acknowledgment by one to all flows actions.
290 Add increment TCP sequence by one to all flows actions.
293 Add decrement TCP sequence by one to all flows actions.
296 Add set IP ttl action to all flows actions.
297 The ttl value to be set is random each flow.
300 Add decrement IP ttl by one to all flows actions.
302 * ``--set-ipv4-dscp``
303 Add set IPv4 dscp action to all flows actions.
304 The dscp value to be is random each flow.
306 * ``--set-ipv6-dscp``
307 Add set IPv6 dscp action to all flows actions.
308 The dscp value to be is random each flow.
311 Add flag action to all flows actions.
313 * ``--raw-encap=<DATA>``
314 Add raw encap action to all flows actions.
315 Data is the data needed to be encaped, with fixed values.
316 Example: raw-encap=ether,ipv4,udp,vxlan
318 * ``--raw-decap=<DATA>``
319 Add raw decap action to all flows actions.
320 Data is the data needed to be decaped, with fixed values.
321 Example: raw-decap=ether,ipv4,gre
324 Add vxlan encap action to all flows actions.
325 Data to encap is fixed with pattern: ether,ipv4,udp,vxlan,
326 all encapped items have fixed values.
329 Add vxlan decap action to all flows actions.