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| author |   Shravani <shravani.p@tcs.com> | 2017-03-09 15:08:04 +0530 |
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| committer |   Kalyan reddy Gundarapu <reddyx.gundarapu@intel.com> | 2017-03-24 19:38:50 +0000 |
| commit | 9d3e1250c6c70a017262959bae68235ef8100684 (patch) | |
| tree | 64d3422a89e5d09cb646d98cd3a8a2d47b1e07ff /docs/requirements/kvmfornfv_requirements.rst | |
| parent | 52f993b8e89487ec9ee15a7fb4979e0f09a45b27 (diff) | |
This patch is used to update the documents of D-release.
Change-Id: I059843a8967ec339b8faf87dcbc6a76ec15d25d4
Co-Authored by:Srinivas <srinivas.atmakuri@tcs.com>
Co-Authored by:RajithaY<rajithax.yerrumsetty@intel.com>
Co-Authored by:Gundarapu Kalyan Reddy <reddyx.gundarapu@intel.com>
Co-Authored by:Navya Bathula <navyax.bathula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shravani <shravani.p@tcs.com>
(cherry picked from commit d4b19c2012c72015c7554ad0b0f098b9dae8aa7c)
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diff --git a/docs/requirements/kvmfornfv_requirements.rst b/docs/requirements/kvmfornfv_requirements.rst index 048838907..6aa00ba6c 100644 --- a/docs/requirements/kvmfornfv_requirements.rst +++ b/docs/requirements/kvmfornfv_requirements.rst @@ -2,22 +2,25 @@ .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 .. (c) OPNFV, Intel Corporation, AT&T and others. -============ +====================== +kvmfornfv Requirements +====================== + Introduction -============ +------------ The NFV hypervisors provide crucial functionality in the NFV Infrastructure(NFVI).The existing hypervisors, however, are not necessarily designed or targeted to meet the requirements for the NFVI. This document specifies the list of requirements that need to be met as part -of this "NFV Hypervisors-KVM" project in Colorado release. +of this "NFV Hypervisors-KVM" project in Danube release. As part of this project we need to make collaborative efforts towards enabling the NFV features. -================= + Scope and Purpose -================= +----------------- The main purpose of this project is to enhance the KVM hypervisor for NFV, by looking at the following areas initially: @@ -32,9 +35,8 @@ The output of this project would be list of the performance goals,comprehensive instructions for the system configurations,tools to measure Performance and interrupt latency. -=========================== Methods and Instrumentation -=========================== +--------------------------- The above areas would require software development and/or specific hardware features, and some need just configurations information for the system @@ -56,20 +58,18 @@ scenario are: Technology(CAT) enabling can be tuned to improve the NFV performance/latency. -===================== Features to be tested -===================== +--------------------- The tests that need to be conducted to make sure that latency is addressed are: -1. Timer test -2. Device Interrupt Test -3. Packet forwarding (DPDK OVS) -4. Packet Forwarding (SR-IOV) -5. Bare-metal Packet Forwarding + 1. Timer test + 2. Device Interrupt Test + 3. Packet forwarding (DPDK OVS) + 4. Packet Forwarding (SR-IOV) + 5. Bare-metal Packet Forwarding -============ Dependencies -============ +------------ 1. OPNFV Project: “Characterize vSwitch Performance for Telco NFV Use Cases” (VSPERF) for performance evaluation of ivshmem vs. vhost-user. @@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ Dependencies 5. In terms of HW dependencies, the aim is to use standard IA Server hardware for this project, as provided by OPNFV Pharos. -========= + Reference -========= +--------- https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/kvm/ |