vpp: Initial support of VPP vSwitch

Support of VPP was implemented into VSPERF. Initial implementation
uses step driven testcases to configure P2P, PVP and PVVP network
scenarios. These testcases were prepared for three RFC2544 traffic
types, i.e. throughput, continuous stream and back to back.
VPP configuration is driven by new configuration option VSWITCH_VPP_ARGS.
It is possible to use three types of l2 port connection supported
by VPP, i.e. l2 xconnect (default), l2patch and l2 bridge features.
Configuration is driven by parameter VSWITCH_VPP_L2_CONNECT_MODE.

JIRA: VSPERF-495

Change-Id: Idebef9b10fb0d70796adb3405fec77302de00a7e
Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Al Morton <acmorton@att.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sridhar Rao <sridhar.rao@spirent.com>
Reviewed-by: Trevor Cooper <trevor.cooper@intel.com>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/docs/configguide/installation.rst b/docs/configguide/installation.rst
index bda5a0bc..1965a8f5 100644
--- a/docs/configguide/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/configguide/installation.rst
@@ -165,6 +165,22 @@ built from upstream source due to kernel incompatibilities. Please see the
 instructions in the vswitchperf_design document for details on configuring
 OVS Vanilla for binary package usage.
 
+.. _vpp-installation:
+
+VPP installation
+================
+
+Currently vswitchperf installation scripts do not support automatic build
+of VPP. In order to execute tests with VPP, it is required to install it
+manually. Please refer to the official documentation of `fd.io`_ project to
+install VPP from `packages`_ or from the `sources`_.
+
+See details about :ref:`vpp-test`.
+
+.. _fd.io: https://fd.io/
+.. _packages: https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Installing_VPP_binaries_from_packages
+.. _sources: https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Build,_install,_and_test_images
+
 Using vswitchperf
 -----------------
 
@@ -260,20 +276,10 @@ your configuration in the ``02_vswitch.conf`` file.
 
 .. code:: bash
 
-    VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS = ['-c', '0x4', '-n', '4', '--socket-mem 1024,1024']
-    VSWITCHD_DPDK_CONFIG = {
-        'dpdk-init' : 'true',
-        'dpdk-lcore-mask' : '0x4',
-        'dpdk-socket-mem' : '1024,1024',
-    }
-
-**NOTE:** Option ``VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS`` is used for vswitchd, which supports ``--dpdk``
-parameter. In recent vswitchd versions, option ``VSWITCHD_DPDK_CONFIG`` is
-used to configure vswitchd via ``ovs-vsctl`` calls.
+    DPDK_SOCKET_MEM = ['1024', '0']
 
-With the ``--socket-mem`` argument set to use 1 hugepage on the specified sockets as
-seen above, the configuration will need 10 hugepages total to run all tests
-within vsperf if the pagesize is set correctly to 1GB.
+**NOTE:** Option ``DPDK_SOCKET_MEM`` is used by all vSwitches with DPDK support.
+It means Open vSwitch, VPP and TestPMD.
 
 VSPerf will verify hugepage amounts are free before executing test
 environments. In case of hugepage amounts not being free, test initialization