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+    testeventdev
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+..  BSD LICENSE
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+
+dpdk-test-eventdev Application
+==============================
+
+The ``dpdk-test-eventdev`` tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
+application that allows exercising various eventdev use cases.
+This application has a generic framework to add new eventdev based test cases to
+verify functionality and measure the performance parameters of DPDK eventdev
+devices.
+
+Compiling the Application
+-------------------------
+
+**Build the application**
+
+Execute the ``dpdk-setup.sh`` script to build the DPDK library together with the
+``dpdk-test-eventdev`` application.
+
+Initially, the user must select a DPDK target to choose the correct target type
+and compiler options to use when building the libraries.
+The user must have all libraries, modules, updates and compilers installed
+in the system prior to this,
+as described in the earlier chapters in this Getting Started Guide.
+
+Running the Application
+-----------------------
+
+The application has a number of command line options:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   dpdk-test-eventdev [EAL Options] -- [application options]
+
+EAL Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The following are the EAL command-line options that can be used in conjunction
+with the ``dpdk-test-eventdev`` application.
+See the DPDK Getting Started Guides for more information on these options.
+
+*   ``-c <COREMASK>`` or ``-l <CORELIST>``
+
+        Set the hexadecimal bitmask of the cores to run on. The corelist is a
+        list of cores to use.
+
+*   ``--vdev <driver><id>``
+
+        Add a virtual eventdev device.
+
+Application Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The following are the application command-line options:
+
+* ``--verbose``
+
+        Set verbose level. Default is 1. Value > 1 displays more details.
+
+* ``--dev <n>``
+
+        Set the device id of the event device.
+
+* ``--test <name>``
+
+        Set test name, where ``name`` is one of the following::
+
+         order_queue
+         order_atq
+         perf_queue
+         perf_atq
+
+* ``--socket_id <n>``
+
+        Set the socket id of the application resources.
+
+* ``--pool-sz <n>``
+
+        Set the number of mbufs to be allocated from the mempool.
+
+* ``--plcore <n>``
+
+        Set the producer lcore id.
+
+* ``--slcore <n>``
+
+        Set the scheduler lcore id.(Valid when eventdev is not RTE_EVENT_DEV_CAP_DISTRIBUTED_SCHED capable)
+
+* ``--plcores <CORELIST>``
+
+        Set the list of cores to be used as producers.
+
+* ``--wlcores <CORELIST>``
+
+        Set the list of cores to be used as workers.
+
+* ``--stlist <type_list>``
+
+        Set the scheduled type of each stage where ``type_list`` size
+        determines the number of stages used in the test application.
+        Each type_list member can be one of the following::
+
+            P or p : Parallel schedule type
+            O or o : Ordered schedule type
+            A or a : Atomic schedule type
+
+        Application expects the ``type_list`` in comma separated form (i.e. ``--stlist o,a,a,a``)
+
+* ``--nb_flows <n>``
+
+        Set the number of flows to produce.
+
+* ``--nb_packets <n>``
+
+        Set the number of packets to produce.
+
+* ``--worker_deq_depth <n>``
+
+        Set the dequeue depth of the worker.
+
+* ``--fwd_latency``
+
+        Perform forward latency measurement.
+
+* ``--queue_priority``
+
+        Enable queue priority.
+
