On Wed, Jul 8, 2026 at 10:28 AM Andrew Bailey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Add support for running DTS with no traffic generator node and no ethdev
> interfaces. Some applications, like dpdk-test-crypto-perf run without
> ethdev interfaces and no traffic generator. In these cases, it is
> beneficial to remove the overhead of creating a node and ports that are
> not used. The specified build option for ice devices is removed since
> the query to sut port ingress causes python to crash when there are no
> ports. Notably, since this is only the case in which there are no ports,
> traffic will not be sent and therefore the build argument is not
> required. For these reasons it is skipped when running a no-link
> topology.
>

I think SUT should be capitalized.

I do not understand what the final 3 sentences are saying about ice. I do
think I understand the code, which is saying that when the topology is
NO_LINK, do not build DPDK with 16 byte descriptors.


>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Bailey <[email protected]>
>
>  dpdk:
> @@ -58,8 +61,8 @@ test_suites: # see `Optional Fields`; the following test
> suites will be run in t
>  # The machine running the DPDK test executable
>  system_under_test_node: "SUT 1"
>  # Traffic generator node to use for this execution environment
> -traffic_generator_node: "TG 1"
> -port_topology:
> +traffic_generator_node: "TG 1" # see
>

See what? Is it supposed to say "see `Optional Fields`" ?


> +port_topology: # see `Optional Fields`
>
>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Robb <[email protected]>

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