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authorahothan <ahothan@cisco.com>2017-10-18 10:43:09 -0700
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Change-Id: I1e8d4a3fa6be7305c89fbc28b31377ec0f9d51a2 Signed-off-by: ahothan <ahothan@cisco.com>
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:depth: 3
:local:
+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
+.. License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. (c) Cisco Systems, Inc
+
+
Introduction
-----------------
+------------
+
+NFVbench can be decomposed in the following components:
+- Configuration
+- Staging
+- Traffic generation
+- Traffic generator results analysis
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+This component is in charge of getting the configuration options from the user and consolidate them with
+the default configuration into a running configuration.
+
+default configuration + user configuration options = running configuration
+
+User configuration can come from:
+- CLI configuration shortcut arguments (e.g --frame-size)
+- CLI configuration file (--config [file])
+- CLI configuration string (--config [string])
+- REST request body
+- custom platform pluging
+
+The precedence order for configuration is (from highest precedence to lowest precedence)
+- CLI confguration or REST configuration
+- custom platform plugin
+- default configuration
+
+The custom platform plugin is an optional python class that can be used to override default configuration options
+with default platform options which can be either hardcoded or calculated at runtime from platform specific sources
+(such as platform deployment configuration files).
+A custom platform plugin class is a child of the parent class nfvbench.config_plugin.ConfigPlugin.
+
+
+Staging
+-------
+The staging component is in charge of staging the OpenStack resources that are used for the requested packet path.
+For example, for a PVP packet path, this module will create 2 Neutron networks and one VM instance connected to these 2 networks.
+Multi-chaining and VM placement is also handled by this module.
+
+Main class: nfvbench.chain_managers.StageManager
+
+Traffic Generation
+------------------
+The traffic generation component is in charge of contrilling the TRex traffic generator using its python API.
+It includes tasks such as:
+- traffic check end to end to make sure the packet path is clear in both directions before starting a benchmark
+- programming the Trex traffic flows based on requested parameters
+- fixed rate control
+- NDR/PDR binary search
+
+Main class: nfvbench.traffic_client.TrafficClient
+
+Traffic Generator Results Analysis
+----------------------------------
+At the end of a traffic generation session, this component collects the results from TRex and packages them in a format that
+is suitable for the various output formats (JSON, REST, file, fluentd).
+In the case of multi-chaining, it handles aggregation of results across chains.
+Main class: nfvbench.chain_managers.StatsManager
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-.. To be decided
+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
+.. License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. (c) Cisco Systems, Inc
-=============================================
+===============================
OPNFV NFVbench Euphrates Design
-=============================================
+===============================
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
design
+ versioning
ndrpdr
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+
+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
+.. License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. (c) Cisco Systems, Inc
+
+Versioning
+==========
+
+NFVbench uses semver compatible git tags such as "1.0.0". These tags are also called project tags and applied at important commits on the master branch exclusively.
+Rules for the version numbers follow the semver 2.0 specification (http://semver.org).
+These git tags are applied indepently of the OPNFV release tags which are applied only on the stable release branches (e.g. "opnfv-5.0.0").
+
+In general it is recommeneded to always have a project git version tag associated to any OPNFV release tag content obtained from a sync from master.
+
+NFVbench Docker containers will be versioned based on the OPNF release tags or based on NFVbench project tags.
+
+
+
+
+
+