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2020-12-08Reporting test details for all testsopnfv-10.0.0stable/jermaLuc Provoost8-60/+44
Test details were only implemented in rapid_flowsizetest.py. When executing other tests, an error occured. That is now fixed, although in some cases, None is returned. The format.yaml files defines now alsowhat will be reported in the Xtesting details. Change-Id: I5feae62dcf228664b24451d3fc5dfaaadf7edb5e Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-11-18Support for xtestingLuc Provoost12-15/+197
Some files were added to for rapid testing in the xtesting framework Change-Id: Id912789c5007ca8390a67fb5b359296089aa9618 Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-11-13Fix for latency reporting and log file handlerLuc Provoost3-5/+5
The latency histogram dat did not contain samples collected during the first measurement of each step. The maximum latency did take the first step into account. As a result, you might see a test run with a maximum latency not showing up in the latency histogram data. This has been fixed by also including the data from the first measurement in the histogram data. In some cases, we also reported the wrong speed from the last unsuccessful step. This is now fixed and we do report the speed from the last successful step. In rapid_log.py, a fix was added to execute the rollover on the file handler of the log file in all cases. In some cases, the file handler with index 0 was not the file handler of the log file. Change-Id: I6c2b16c21dd0ee17d1d14e46c4c544e185324256 Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-11-10Fix potential crash in parsing unusual commandsXavier Simonart1-2/+2
'reset values all' and 'reset randoms all' commands were potentially causing some crash. This has been fixed. Change-Id: Idc2c4f7c90db73e7fdf9e8ef76b00ba956a0d854 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-11-05Fix setting imx pkt sizes through config filesXavier Simonart1-1/+9
Change-Id: I0e5098747cc496da8632e8d6f779e418da03dc4a Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-10-19Support dataplane subnet mask & latency histogramLuc Provoost16-36/+76
There is a new parameter in the config_file: dataplane_subnet_mask. This parameter is added to the dataplane IP addresses and is needed by the Linux stack to deal with some protocols (e.g. ARP). If not present, the default value of 24 will be used. In the end, this will make sure that IP addresses in the rapid.env file will have this mask, e.g. /24 If you use other tools than createrapid.py to create the rapid.env file, make sure to add the mask. This commit also introduces a change when exiting: we only copy the prox.log files from the different prox instances in case we expect a new prox.log file to be created in these instances. When using a valid format.yaml file, the tool will now also send the latency distribution data (histogram) to the URL. The tool is now also checking the value of bucket_size_exp: it needs to be 11 or more. Change-Id: I633cdc64ef687fdb6625be1e7482a5a371f83e93 Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-10-16Report failure when tap port is not mapped to real dpdk port.Xavier Simonart4-6/+20
When using "vdev=" in port section, a tap device and an additional dpdk port are created. In most cases, we still want to use a real DPDK device (i.e. bound to an interface such as virtio or a PF or a VF). PROX will now report by default an error when the used [port] is not a DPDK bound device. An additional parameter "virtual=yes" can be added in the port section in case one want to disable this error checking (e.g. specify additional parameter for the vdev device). This patch also fixes a potential endianess issue when configuring IP addresses. Change-Id: Iffdd9552308be3b77cfe2067630647acac2c01fe Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-09-29New PROX version, background traffic reportingLuc Provoost18-86/+89
deploycentostools.sh is now installing a recent PROX version. When using background traffic, the tool is also reporting the total traffic that was handled by the NFVi stack, including foreground & background traffic. The use of the prox_socket and prox_launch_exit was also broken in a previous release and is now fixed. When setting prox_socket to false for a PROX instance, we will not create a socket connection to control that PROX instance. Setting this option to false is not meaningful for the generator PROX instances since we would not be able to control the behavior of the PROX generator during the test. You could use the generator against another non-PROX instance and then set prox_socket to false for that non-PROX instance. Default is true. prox_launch_exit is used to start and stop the PROX program inside the instance. Default is true. This is useful in case you want to start PROX manually to be able to inspect the PROX UI, but at the same time, let the rapid scripts control the testing. Change-Id: Ib5aa809f4be201859542769f5f55f4989dad97ef Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-09-21Add git version.Xavier Simonart2-1/+12
git version is now printed in prox.log file. - git_version.c is always recompiled - If source have been locally changed, the build is shown as dirty - If git is not available on the build system, a message such as 'make: git: Command not found' will be printed, but the build will succeed. Change-Id: If551832c6079f5e3bd04cd4d8ac5f8204e6be8cd Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-09-21Added support for multiple vlans in ipv4 vdev modeXavier Simonart13-82/+184
When the following conditions are met: - ipv4 - vdev enabled Then multiple vlans are supported. Multiple vlans can be configured using the vlan_tag option within the port section of the config file. Multiple (different) local_ipv4/prefix must then also be configured within the same section. Note that for ipv6 multiple vlans are not supported (yet) Also, when vdev is not enabled, multiple vlans are also not (yet) supported. Change-Id: I38b6cd98ff2a0f484d1bf0910b15413ba21ae6d6 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-09-21Improve performance in IPv6 generatorXavier Simonart4-45/+28
Change-Id: I3abc92652402162d15249e345446debdeb778176 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-09-21Added support for VLAN in IPv6Xavier Simonart5-54/+87
Change-Id: Ib1b3d54f9cb8e4284eee7ed0998e96370762a17e Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-09-21Added support for gateway ipv6 & cmd for sending unsollicited neighbor ↵Xavier Simonart5-16/+73
advertisement Change-Id: Iae35d3fa19ad7cf90d8c2e0c104b0e798ac34787 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-09-21Added support for reporting packet (mis)order.Xavier Simonart18-48/+227
The "Latency" screen has been updated with 3 columns: - mis-ordered Count the number of mis-ordered packets. - extent: Gives an indication of how mis-ordered the packets are. Receiving packet "x - 5" after receiving packet "x" will cause an extent of 5. - duplicate: Count number of duplicate packets. Following commands have been added for the impair mode: - proba no drop: replaces the former "probability" command. Percentage of forwarded packets. So 99.5 means 0.5% of packet drop. - proba delay Percentage of delayed packets for the impair mode. - proba duplicate Percentage of duplicate packets. Similar parameters are supported within the config files: - proba no drop - proba delay - proba duplicate Note: it is recommanded to use the signature when measuring packet misorder, as otherwise unexpected packet would cause miscounts. Change-Id: I037f606f264d6e2bd7f123df5ed57ab7df8386d7 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-09-17Using python concurrent futuresLuc Provoost3-63/+29
Different PROX instances are now started in parallel. The script is starting multiple threads. Change-Id: Ia8785a792240d4e9b5d5d98174bc4c5d7ae5657c Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-09-16ramp generator traffic & prox.log copyLuc Provoost6-1/+75
A new parameter can be put in the *.test files so that the requested traffic is not generated at once, but slowly increasing up to the requested traffic. This is important for some SW switched that adapt and learn from the applied traffic. When suddenly applying a high traffic, the switch might not have enough time to learn and lose packets. Only after a period of time (up to 10 seconds?), the switch can cope with the traffic without packet loss. In order to get reproducible results in this case with low packet loss, please put the parameter ramp_step in the test section of the *.test file. The step is expressed in percentage of a 10Gb/s traffic. If the parameter is not present, the load will be immediately applied. When the runrapid.py script is now finished, it also copies the prox.log files from all the prox instances. In case of issues, please investigate this log file. When using background traffic, the tool will also print the average background traffic for each step in the DEBUG log. In this way, you can check that the background traffic is actually dealing with the same amount of traffic as the foreground. The tool is printing the packet reception rate of the background generators. A bug was also fixed regarding the latency percentile reporting. When using tests involving l2gen.cfg, the values of the percentile latency were wrong. Change-Id: Id3dd02ed5cab084414c717cf898b30e6980ddf31 Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-09-07deploycentostools.sh to use latest PROXLuc Provoost1-1/+1
Rapid scripts are communicating to the PROX instances. Rapid scripts will not work with every PROX version sice sometime we change the interface between the scripts and PROX. Hence we have a commit ID in deploycentostools.sh to make sure we have a version of PROX that we can work with. This change will now ensure we have a recent PROX version when we use deploycentostools.sh to build an image. Change-Id: Ia634f61a2dc8f49188cec6697ebf5f980d35ce7d Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-08-20Allow latency thresholds for TST009 testingLuc Provoost2-3/+4
Even if the latency thresholds were defined in the TST009 test files, the values were ignored and replaced by 'inf', whcih means the thresholds were not taken into account to define a successful step. If the thresholds are not defined in the test files, they are still set to 'inf'. Change-Id: I9559f05fb6066ab8759900abe3eb53ff4662e510 Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-08-18Add all_rx_queues port flag to use all rx queuesLuc Provoost3-0/+51
In the port section of the PROX configuration file, a new parameter can be added: all_rx_queues. The default is all_rx_queues=no. When the rx port variable of a task is listing a port name, all rx queues will be used when the all_rx_queues is set for that port. If not set, only one queue of that port will be "consumed", each time the port is referenced in the rx port variable. When the all_rx_queues is set for a port, you should NOT reference that port more than once in the rx port variables. Change-Id: If9662b1ac07adeec9db88d2a25ca68aed0b9e213 Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-08-18Setting mq_mode for virtio to ETH_MQ_RX_NONELuc Provoost1-6/+12
As described in https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/60354/, we cannot set mq_mode for a vertio device to ETH_MQ_RX_RSS. Therefore adding this extra test before setting mq_mode. Change-Id: I8a33cf73afaa2cef8b9b012bf8ebe7296e1e692d Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-08-07Support DPDK 19.11 rc0Luc Provoost3-18/+18
Change-Id: I7ac1bb78fe00407ff66945fcdf7b5d54c9025214 Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-08-06fix: IPV6 packet generation, packet loss reportingLuc Provoost10-28/+70
UDP and IP packet length and source UDP port and destination UDP port were wrongly set for IPv6 packets. In the *.test files, there is now an optional boolean field (ipv6) in the [TestParameters] section. When set to true, the generator will use the IPv6 packet layout to place the right values at the proper offset in the packet. If not present or set to false, the IPv4 layout will be used. Note also that packet size needs to be at least 84 bytes for IPV6 traffic since we need space for latency and other information in each packet. Packet loss ratio is now printed as a percentage of the total packets sent. Change-Id: I2136e87f3032348ae95b69052be7da8461c6303c Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-08-03Improved IRQ measurements and pushing resultsLuc Provoost12-134/+373
The IRQ test has been reworked to increase the accuracy of the IRQ measurements. Results can now also be pushed to a Prometheus push gateway or to OPNFV's Xtesting. In order to do so, a new file format.yaml has been introduced. Please use this file now to specify the details of the PushGateway or the Xtesting server. Added new test: increment_till_fail.test Change-Id: I111aae3e099bc03e3d2ddd1014a0301bac356e0b Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-07-24Fix execution in the Kubernetes environmentYury Kylulin3-3/+14
Due to the recent changes in the rapid scripts, Kubernetes environment need to be adjusted. Ready for test flag file for the runrapid script created during the container start. TUN device configuration added. Signed-off-by: Yury Kylulin <yury.kylulin@intel.com> Change-Id: I097aafbd1d1d102aa61b8b86842afcb2d6a51338
2020-07-10Fix gateway l3 wrongly inserting VLANsXavier Simonart1-1/+20
Change-Id: I187ed4f282c6332a7e906bc03b51d26295a475ac Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-07-10Fixed compilation issue on dpdk 19.08 (and more recent)Xavier Simonart1-0/+5
Change-Id: Iae0a0d95b5a216463ec7511337be4019fdd4359f Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-07-06Fix minor compilation issue on recent gcc compilersXavier Simonart1-1/+1
Change-Id: I7eeaaa3a0dfa1c0a831863e772b50697c5ff5054 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-07-05Adding vdev support and vfioLuc Provoost30-112/+179
Using vfio in stead of igb_uio. DPDK 2020.5 is NOT compiling the igb_uio driver by default any more. For the l3 mode, we are now using the new PROX vdev feature. This is achieved by adding the vdev parameter in the port section of the PROX config files. One of the advantages is that we can now ping a port managed by PROX: the requests will be forwarded by PROX to the LINUX stack, who will reply to the ping. A tap device is being created by PROX to support this feature. Installing old version of nasm since latest causes some issues. If not pushgateway is being used, it should be commented out in the config_file. vfio is now loaded by specifying the module in /etc/modules-load.d There is also an after_boot.sh script that will be run by check_prox_system_setup.sh, which can be used for further configuration of the instance after boot. There is now also a file created /opt/rapid/system_ready_for_rapid by the check_prox_system_setup.sh script. This file is created once all configuration is done. The runrapid.py script will wait till this file is created before executing any tests. Change-Id: Ic5c41af82642066af42134c3323297f5a06f6f72 Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-06-05Clean up for the test podsYury Kylulin2-10/+31
Option for Kubernetes environment clean up (createrapidk8s.py -c) from the test pods added. Signed-off-by: Yury Kylulin <yury.kylulin@intel.com> Change-Id: I1c6c7090462b55fbadd1d8f1a277470a6eeb2dee
2020-06-03Fix for containers to use /opt/rapidYury Kylulin5-10/+12
Fix scripts and build procedure to use /opt/rapid as a main directory for binaries and config files. Signed-off-by: Yury Kylulin <yury.kylulin@intel.com> Change-Id: Icb38c37a85a78a6f2de2e751df5fafd624b4f1b3
2020-06-02Using /opt/rapid to run proxLuc Provoost4-12/+17
All config files are now copied into /opt/rapid. We are not using the home directory any more. The prox executable is now also copied into the same /opt/rapid. Change-Id: I838636167f370bf8a855a3cfb0796c659e27a3ad Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-05-29Fixing some more copyright datesLuc Provoost14-13/+30
New files created in 2020 have now the right date in the copyright notice. Change-Id: I8eb244beec3d793e819cce1f63c39671f18286a1 Signed-off-by: Luc Provoost <luc.provoost@intel.com>
2020-05-30Updated PROX version to 20.05 to reflect support of DPDK 20.05Xavier Simonart2-2/+3
Change-Id: Iad6882cc28ac2039984b12f6b7a897b81d975d9b Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Fix compilation issues on old DPDKXavier Simonart8-5/+54
Also fixed minor issues such as - prevent using vdev on DPDK <= 17.05 as not supported - potential segmentation fault after panic (if panic thrown early in prox initialization) Change-Id: I49a1962e95a4a44dddadd1fdd906e1b3b232465c Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29VLAN support with vdev devices + few other changesXavier Simonart13-97/+200
- vdev devices now support VLAN. - kernel tap device can be configured with a netmask (/24 was always used in previous version). - when sending a (fake) packet to the kernel, this packet will now not be routed by the kernel (i.e. it will leave through the interface configured by PROX). This might change in the futture when PROX supports multiple VLANs per port. But today it prevents ARP being sent on management interfaces. - Log error in case kernel unable to send packet. - Added support for comments (';') in lua sections. - Prevent duplication of local_ipv4 - should now be configured in port section local_ipv4 in core section still supported Change-Id: I8f9a40fe6ad6f3013ff91b58b44627c7f34081e6 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Add support for latency measurement for IMIX packetsXavier Simonart1-6/+26
Before this patch latency measurements were only supported if signature was disabled. Change-Id: I565b00f76818ab42e9cca4ddc32f9d857648929d Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Fix Idle countXavier Simonart1-7/+6
Change-Id: Idd72b593504139ac9d42c33767f8a18395b2cc87 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Fix source mac address when applying imixXavier Simonart1-0/+3
Change-Id: I8cbbe1b08af9b5472c304f2fba3635f0a084fdd8 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Fix potential core dump when closing ports at exitXavier Simonart2-9/+11
Change-Id: I45ea9741be1c552d8f13a7de027994c23995df69 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Added initial support for NDP (IPv6)Xavier Simonart33-420/+2215
Following messages are now handled by PROX - router_solicitation - neighbour_solicitation - router_advertisement - neighbour_advertisement The following parameters are supported (through the PROX config file) - sub mode=ndp This will enable handling of router and neighbour solicitation and advertisement. - local ipv6=xxxx:xxxx:xxxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx This will configure the local IPv6 address of the port. This parameter is optional. If not specified, the local IPv6 will be calculated from the EUI. - global ipv6=xxxx:xxxx:xxxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx This will configure the global IPv6 address of the port. This parameter is optional. If not specified, the global IPv6 will be calculated from the EUI and the router prefix received from the router. - ipv6 router=yes This will cause the core to behave as an IPv6 router i.e. it will generate Router Advertisement messages This is only useful in back to back cases, when no real IPv6 router is present in the setup. - router prefix=xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx The router prefix usedin the router advertisement The prefix will be used by the node to build an IPv6 global address in cases none were configured. "Unsollicited NA" parameter has been added within the core/task section. If set to yes (Unsollicited NA=yes), then an unsollicited neighbour Advertisement is sent at startup A same core/task cannot support both l3 and ndp mode. Those messages will be generated or handled when submode is set to "ndp": - neighbour sollicitation - neighbour advertisement - router sollicitation - router advertisement An example configuration is provided: config/ipv6.cfg in which port 0 / core 1 plays the role of the generator and port 1 / core 2 plays the role of the swap. Change-Id: Id0ab32d384448b4cf767fb4a1c486fc023f4f395 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Added support for IMIX through config and command lineXavier Simonart8-121/+373
In Prox configuration IMIX can be specified using the following syntax: imix=pkt_size,pkt_size... Up to 127 different pkt sizes can be specified. Through command line, the following syntax can be used imix core_id task_id pkt_size,pkt_size... Up to 127 packet sizes can be specified. When IMIX is enabled, PROX will loop through the list of packet sizes. PROX supports two different submodes to handle pcap files. In the 1st submode (default, no submode specified), timestamps from the pcap file are ignored. In this submode IMIX is supported as well and each packets in the pcap file will be generated with all IMIX sizes. In the second submode, called pcap in gen mode, packets are generated at the timestamp specified in the pcap file. This submode does not support IMIX. Change-Id: I53cbf1378a5364254285b81e6848350d98561184 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Added support for secondary process & virtual devicesXavier Simonart7-19/+118
A virtual device can be created adding the following option on the eal field within the eal options section: --vdev=net_ring0 This will cause a new (virtual) dpdk port to be created. Such a device can then be used in a primary process as other DPDK devices i.e. a [port x] section must be defined in the configuration file For a secondary process, there is no need to add --vdev, but, of course --proc-type=secondary (or --proc-type=auto) must be set within the eal field. There are two ways to use such a virtual device in a secondary process 1) Using the DPDK port number. Note however that the DPDK port number of virtual devices in the secondary process might not start from 0 and might hence have to be guessed e.g. if using 2 virtual devices in primary process (--vdev=net_ring0 --vdev=net_ring1) the port_id will be 0 and 1 in primary process and 2 & 3 in secondary process. 2) Using the port name, as defined in --vdev in the primary process. In this way, no [port] section must be defined, and the virtual port names are directly used within the "rx port" and "tx port" configuration e.g.: rx port=net_ring0 tx port=net_ring1 Limitations =========== There seems to be a PROX leak causing DPDK port id to increase when restarting the secondary process (causing the secondary process configuration through port id more difficult). As the primary process configures the port (including the number of rx and tx queues) based on its config file, the secondary process can't setup its own queues. Simple configurations (such as using gen or lat in primary, and swap in secondary) work as PROX allocates a RX queue even in gen mode and a TX queue even in lat mode. Better configuration/support for secondary process should be designed. The use of dpdk port names is only supported by PROX within "rx port" and "tx port". It is not supported by other configuration fields such as "tx ports from routing table". The use of dpdk port names in "rx port" and "tx port" is limited to only 1 port. Change-Id: Iaa606625da471403713a21df79d3ded4bb91b91e Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Fix mbuf leak and stop sending pseudo packetXavier Simonart3-12/+51
In addition to a mmbuf leak when receiving netlink routes packets this commit prevents sending the PROX pseudo packet i.e. the packet PROX sends to the kernel socket to have it generate an ARP request. Change-Id: Iabbdecbe412e4b90ac0df7e30fa36d096c5326f0 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Added initial VLAN support with vdev devicesXavier Simonart4-77/+89
For kernel supported devices, add for vlan tag support This can be configured through port parameter: vlan tag=<vlan tag> If this parameter is set, a vlan tagged interface is created on top of the tap device This is only supported for vdev tap devices When sending (untagged) packet to the tap device (through socket) the tap should react in sending tagged packet Note that receiving in L3 mode (w/o tap support) a tagged packet is not yet supported. Change-Id: I363fa2f8d2341ac41ef23620222ece1d944bf336 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Improve performance in l3 submodeXavier Simonart3-13/+17
Two cases where performance has been improved - When using a gateway from a routing table (l3 submode), store the mac within the next hop table, to avoid a hash_lookup. This gives ~10% improvement. - Read tsc only once per bulk (of up to 64 packets). This gives ~10% improvement to swap, 4% to gen. In addition a small fix has been added, preventig "No route" Error to be written too aften. Change-Id: I8a7ab74a32f09c8ff47f751ee91e84afee1b2147 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Added initial support for BGPXavier Simonart13-160/+594
Through this commit BGP messages are forwarded to tap device Netlink messages are enabled to receive route Updates. In addition, generating tasks can also specify a routing table which will be used when sending packets The routes initialized by the routing table can be changed through the reception of BGP messages Change-Id: I187ba9a921885cbc9b209aae5fb654309e3388b8 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Fix ctrlplane handling vdevXavier Simonart1-21/+20
Change-Id: I8f570940d2c4e1fc09ebae03105e436f5caebbd3 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Improve ctrlplane performanceXavier Simonart4-13/+36
The crlplane performance has been improved. This is necessary when handling many IP in L3 mode (i.e. many ARP Requests/Replies). Before this change, arp timer was updated as soon as an arp request was tentativaly sent to the master. This means that, if the request failed to be sent (e.g. ring full) we had to wait arp_update_time (default 1sec) before trying again. Now arp_update_time is only used when an arp reply is received. If a request has been successfully sent, then the arp timer is updated by 1 second (i.e. we will not send any arp reuest for this IP within this second) If we failed to send the request, then the timer is updated by 100 msec which means we will wait 100 msec before trying again. A too high value here would have meant that we have to wait a long time before trying again. A too short value overload the master ring with request to transmit ARP requests, so that master is unable to handle arp replies. arp_update_time is now also partly randomized to avoid all IPs to request arp request at the beginning of the test. So if arp_update_time is 10 sec then the configuration sets it to 5 to 15 sec. As a final note the following parameter (already implemented before) can be changed to improve ctrlplane performance (at the cost of dataplane) ctrl path polling frequency=10000 Change-Id: I9660458a22e7442eaa0c83aaa0c9893a15069f98 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Added support for netlinkXavier Simonart8-71/+438
Through this commit ARP and ICMP messages are forwarded to the kernel when vdev tap devices are enabled, as well as PROX l3 mode. ICMP support has also been added to master (i.e. PROX L3 mode) and to swap (so when L3 submode is not enabled). Change-Id: Ie6bf52cbae7171bfca041ff18651d4ec866f44cd Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2020-05-29Add support for vdev tap devicesXavier Simonart10-12/+277
This commit adds support for the creation of tap devices. To create a tap device, and associate it with a DPDK port, add within the port section: vdev=<tap_name> local ipv4=<ip_assigned_to_port> <tap_name> will appear as a kernel network device, with an IP <ip_assigned_to_port> ARP packets received from the network on the DPDK interface will be forwarded to the kernel. 1st packet which needs to be generated to a new IP will cause an IP packet to be sent to the kernel (using socket sendto) forcing the kernel to send an ARP_REQUEST. In this commit, there is no notification from the kernel about ARP table changes. This is subject to further commits. Two config files, gen_tap.cfg and swap_tap.cfg have been created. They work one against each other. *** Note however that they do not work if running within the same host (with the port being connected back to back) *** This is due to the fact that the kernel would bypass the ports and use local interface... Change-Id: Iadeec0d99e3c693472ea44bdb9163a3bf97df2fa Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>