[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/2] librte_pmd_null: Add Null PMD

2015-02-16 Thread Iremonger, Bernard
> -Original Message- > From: Tetsuya Mukawa [mailto:mukawa at igel.co.jp] > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 4:19 AM > To: dev at dpdk.org > Cc: Qiu, Michael; Iremonger, Bernard; Tetsuya Mukawa > Subject: [PATCH v8 1/2] librte_pmd_null: Add Null PMD > > Null PMD is a driver of the virtual d

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/2] librte_pmd_null: Add Null PMD

2015-02-16 Thread Tetsuya Mukawa
Null PMD is a driver of the virtual device particularly designed to measure performance of DPDK PMDs. When an application call rx, Null PMD just allocates mbufs and returns those. Also tx, the PMD just frees mbufs. The PMD has following options. - size: specify packe size allocated by RX. Default