Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1 Regulatory and Safety Approvals
- 2 Functional Description
- 3 Network Link and Activity Indication
- 4 Features
- 4.1 Software and Hardware Features
- 4.2 Virtualization Features
- 4.3 VXLAN
- 4.4 NVGRE/GRE/IP-in-IP/Geneve
- 4.5 Stateless Offloads
- 4.6 Priority Flow Control
- 4.7 Virtualization Offload
- 4.8 SR-IOV
- 4.9 Network Partitioning (NPAR)
- 4.10 Security
- 4.11 RDMA over Converged Ethernet – RoCE
- 4.12 VMWare Enhanced Networking Stack (ENS)
- 4.13 Supported Combinations
- 4.14 Unsupported Combinations
- 5 Installing the Hardware
- 6 Software Packages and Installation
- 7 Updating the Firmware
- 8 Link Aggregation
- 9 System-Level Configuration
- 10 PXE Boot
- 11 SR-IOV – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 12 NPAR – Configuration and Use Case Example
- 13 Tunneling Configuration Examples
- 14 RoCE – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- 15 DCBX – Data Center Bridging
- 16 DPDK – Configuration and Use Case Examples
- Revision History
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16.3 Testpmd Runtime Functions
When the testpmd application is started in interactive mode, (-i|--interactive), it displays a prompt that can be used to start
and stop forwarding, configure the application, display statistics (including the extended NIC statistics aka xstats), set the
Flow Director, and other tasks.
testpmd>
16.4 Control Functions
This section contains the control functions.
start
Starts packet forwarding with current configuration:
testpmd> start
start tx_first
Starts packet forwarding with current configuration after sending specified number of bursts of packets:
testpmd> start tx_first (""|burst_num)
The default burst number is 1 when burst_num not presented.
stop
Stops packet forwarding and display accumulated statistics:
testpmd> stop
quit
Quits to prompt:
testpmd> quit
16.5 Display Functions
The functions in ths section are used to display information about the testpmd configuration or the NIC status.
show port – Displays information for a given port or all ports.
show port rss reta – Displays the RSS redirection table entry indicated by masks on port X.
show port rss-hash – Displays the RSS hash functions and RSS hash key of a port.
show (rxq|txq) – Displays information for a given port's RX/TX queue.
show config – Displays the configuration of the application. The configuration comes from the command-line.
set fwd – Sets the packet forwarding mode.
read rxd – Displays an RX descriptor for a port RX queue.
read txd – Displays a TX descriptor for a port TX queue.