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authorahothan <ahothan@cisco.com>2017-08-08 16:24:56 -0700
committerahothan <ahothan@cisco.com>2017-08-08 17:48:09 -0700
commit0ab04ab7103fc4bfb17042b60c1e005049375cc2 (patch)
treebee0d88a07889fa57c7f44ca3ce7a839ab05ec53 /nfvbench/cfg.default.yaml
parent2d66234fe3b8b3e104e63218b5120a35ca400ea5 (diff)
Update doc with ndr/pdr section, update config comment
Change-Id: I2e0a771b21371f45fd592ff41dc8f66c0aaeb7e0 Signed-off-by: ahothan <ahothan@cisco.com>
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diff --git a/nfvbench/cfg.default.yaml b/nfvbench/cfg.default.yaml
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--- a/nfvbench/cfg.default.yaml
+++ b/nfvbench/cfg.default.yaml
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ duration_sec: 60
# Can be overridden by --interval
interval_sec: 10
-# NDR / PDR configuration ZZ
+# NDR / PDR configuration
measurement:
# Drop rates represent the ratio of dropped packet to the total number of packets sent.
# Values provided here are percentages. A value of 0.01 means that at most 0.01% of all
@@ -340,8 +340,13 @@ measurement:
NDR: 0.001
# Partial Drop Rate in percentage; NDR should always be less than PDR
PDR: 0.1
- # The accuracy of NDR and PDR load percentiles; The actual load percentile that match NDR
- # or PDR should be within `load_epsilon` difference than the one calculated.
+ # The accuracy of NDR and PDR as a percnetage of line rate; The exact NDR
+ # or PDR should be within `load_epsilon` line rate % from the one calculated.
+ # For example, with a value 0.1, and a line rate of 10Gbps, the accuracy
+ # of NDR and PDR will be within 0.1% Of 10Gbps or 10Kbps.
+ # The lower the value the more iterations and the longer it will take to find the NDR/PDR.
+ # In practice, due to the precision of the traffic generator it is not recommended to
+ # set it to lower than 0.1
load_epsilon: 0.1
# Location where to store results in a JSON format. Must be container specific path.