Runtime Options - Chelsio Communications Terminator Series Installation And User Manual

Chapter XXIV. DPDK Driver
ii. Set packet size to 9018B on all ports
Pktgen> set all size 9018
iii. Start Tx traffic on port 0
Pktgen> start 0
iv. Stop Tx traffic on port 0
Pktgen> stop 0
6.3.

Runtime Options

The following devargs options can be used while running the applications.
force_link_up
force_link_up devargs option always forces Link as up for VFs. This enables VFs on the same PF
to communicate with each other even when physical link is down. This is dsabled by default and
should be enabled while starting the application.
Examples:
[root@host~]# testpmd -w 00:09.0,force_link_up=1 -- -i
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