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diff --git a/docs/development/design/design.rst b/docs/development/design/design.rst index 6de6007..75b90f8 100644 --- a/docs/development/design/design.rst +++ b/docs/development/design/design.rst @@ -15,9 +15,11 @@ Introduction NFVbench can be decomposed in the following components: - Configuration -- Staging -- Traffic generation -- Traffic generator results analysis +- Orchestration: + + - Staging + - Traffic generation + - Results analysis Configuration ------------- @@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ User configuration can come from: - custom platform pluging The precedence order for configuration is (from highest precedence to lowest precedence) -- CLI confguration or REST configuration +- CLI configuration or REST configuration - custom platform plugin - default configuration @@ -43,6 +45,11 @@ with default platform options which can be either hardcoded or calculated at run (such as platform deployment configuration files). A custom platform plugin class is a child of the parent class nfvbench.config_plugin.ConfigPlugin. +Orchestration +------------- +Once the configuration is settled, benchmark orchestration is managed by the ChainRunner class (nfvbench.chain_runner.ChainRunner). +The chain runner will take care of orchestrating the staging, traffic generation and results analysis. + Staging ------- @@ -57,7 +64,7 @@ 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 +- programming the TRex traffic flows based on requested parameters - fixed rate control - NDR/PDR binary search |