This application is purposefully built to benchmark the performance
of the Intel DPDK Packet Framework toolbox.
It uses 3 CPU cores connected in a chain through SW rings
(NICs --> Core A --> Core B --> Core C --> NICs)
1. Core A: reads packets from NIC ports and writes them to SW queues;
2. Core B: instantiates a Packet Framework pipeline that uses ring reader
input ports, a table whose type is selected trhough command line arguments
(--none, --stub, --lpm, --acl, --hash[-spec]-KEYSZ-TYPE, with KEYSZ as
8, 16 or 32 bytes and TYPE as ext (Extendible bucket) or lru (LRU))
and ring writers output ports;
3. Core C: reads packets from SW rings and writes them to NIC ports.
Signed-off-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Waterman Cao <waterman.cao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara Guarch <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked by: Ivan Boule <ivan.boule@6wind.com>
[Thomas: remove dedicated build option]
