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+.. BSD LICENSE
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+
+QoS Metering Sample Application
+===============================
+
+The QoS meter sample application is an example that demonstrates the use of DPDK to provide QoS marking and metering,
+as defined by RFC2697 for Single Rate Three Color Marker (srTCM) and RFC 2698 for Two Rate Three Color Marker (trTCM) algorithm.
+
+Overview
+--------
+
+The application uses a single thread for reading the packets from the RX port,
+metering, marking them with the appropriate color (green, yellow or red) and writing them to the TX port.
+
+A policing scheme can be applied before writing the packets to the TX port by dropping or
+changing the color of the packet in a static manner depending on both the input and output colors of the packets that are processed by the meter.
+
+The operation mode can be selected as compile time out of the following options:
+
+* Simple forwarding
+
+* srTCM color blind
+
+* srTCM color aware
+
+* srTCM color blind
+
+* srTCM color aware
+
+Please refer to RFC2697 and RFC2698 for details about the srTCM and trTCM configurable parameters
+(CIR, CBS and EBS for srTCM; CIR, PIR, CBS and PBS for trTCM).
+
+The color blind modes are functionally equivalent with the color-aware modes when
+all the incoming packets are colored as green.
+
+Compiling the Application
+-------------------------
+
+#. Go to the example directory:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk
+ cd ${RTE_SDK}/examples/qos_meter
+
+#. Set the target
+ (a default target is used if not specified):
+
+ .. note::
+
+ This application is intended as a linuxapp only.
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
+
+#. Build the application:
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ make
+
+Running the Application
+-----------------------
+
+The application execution command line is as below:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ ./qos_meter [EAL options] -- -p PORTMASK
+
+The application is constrained to use a single core in the EAL core mask and 2 ports only in the application port mask
+(first port from the port mask is used for RX and the other port in the core mask is used for TX).
+
+Refer to *DPDK Getting Started Guide* for general information on running applications and
+the Environment Abstraction Layer (EAL) options.
+
+Explanation
+-----------
+
+Selecting one of the metering modes is done with these defines:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ #define APP_MODE_FWD 0
+ #define APP_MODE_SRTCM_COLOR_BLIND 1
+ #define APP_MODE_SRTCM_COLOR_AWARE 2
+ #define APP_MODE_TRTCM_COLOR_BLIND 3
+ #define APP_MODE_TRTCM_COLOR_AWARE 4
+
+ #define APP_MODE APP_MODE_SRTCM_COLOR_BLIND
+
+To simplify debugging (for example, by using the traffic generator RX side MAC address based packet filtering feature),
+the color is defined as the LSB byte of the destination MAC address.
+
+The traffic meter parameters are configured in the application source code with following default values:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ struct rte_meter_srtcm_params app_srtcm_params[] = {
+
+ {.cir = 1000000 * 46, .cbs = 2048, .ebs = 2048},
+
+ };
+
+ struct rte_meter_trtcm_params app_trtcm_params[] = {
+
+ {.cir = 1000000 * 46, .pir = 1500000 * 46, .cbs = 2048, .pbs = 2048},
+
+ };
+
+Assuming the input traffic is generated at line rate and all packets are 64 bytes Ethernet frames (IPv4 packet size of 46 bytes)
+and green, the expected output traffic should be marked as shown in the following table:
+
+.. _table_qos_metering_1:
+
+.. table:: Output Traffic Marking
+
+ +-------------+------------------+-------------------+----------------+
+ | **Mode** | **Green (Mpps)** | **Yellow (Mpps)** | **Red (Mpps)** |
+ | | | | |
+ +=============+==================+===================+================+
+ | srTCM blind | 1 | 1 | 12.88 |
+ | | | | |
+ +-------------+------------------+-------------------+----------------+
+ | srTCM color | 1 | 1 | 12.88 |
+ | | | | |
+ +-------------+------------------+-------------------+----------------+
+ | trTCM blind | 1 | 0.5 | 13.38 |
+ | | | | |
+ +-------------+------------------+-------------------+----------------+
+ | trTCM color | 1 | 0.5 | 13.38 |
+ | | | | |
+ +-------------+------------------+-------------------+----------------+
+ | FWD | 14.88 | 0 | 0 |
+ | | | | |
+ +-------------+------------------+-------------------+----------------+
+
+To set up the policing scheme as desired, it is necessary to modify the main.h source file,
+where this policy is implemented as a static structure, as follows:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ int policer_table[e_RTE_METER_COLORS][e_RTE_METER_COLORS] =
+ {
+ { GREEN, RED, RED},
+ { DROP, YELLOW, RED},
+ { DROP, DROP, RED}
+ };
+
+Where rows indicate the input color, columns indicate the output color,
+and the value that is stored in the table indicates the action to be taken for that particular case.
+
+There are four different actions:
+
+* GREEN: The packet's color is changed to green.
+
+* YELLOW: The packet's color is changed to yellow.
+
+* RED: The packet's color is changed to red.
+
+* DROP: The packet is dropped.
+
+In this particular case:
+
+* Every packet which input and output color are the same, keeps the same color.
+
+* Every packet which color has improved is dropped (this particular case can't happen, so these values will not be used).
+
+* For the rest of the cases, the color is changed to red.