Add testpmd as vswitch class

The purpose of using testpmd instead of OVS is to get the baseline
of the DUT when performing hardware offloading operations.
There are supported different checksum calculation
and txq flags settings.

Change-Id: I93c9b45dcb31eaa1f610b7e061f3dd5936b0e6ec
JIRA: VSPERF-193
Signed-off-by: Robert Wojciechowicz <robertx.wojciechowicz@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dino Simeon Madarang <dino.simeonx.madarang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Castelli <brian.castelli@spirent.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/core/component_factory.py b/core/component_factory.py
index 21cdd61d..af237e50 100644
--- a/core/component_factory.py
+++ b/core/component_factory.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ from core.vswitch_controller_p2p import VswitchControllerP2P
 from core.vswitch_controller_pvp import VswitchControllerPVP
 from core.vswitch_controller_pvvp import VswitchControllerPVVP
 from core.vnf_controller import VnfController
+from core.pktfwd_controller import PktFwdController
 from tools.load_gen.stress.stress import Stress
 from tools.load_gen.stress_ng.stress_ng import StressNg
 from tools.load_gen.dummy.dummy import DummyLoadGen
@@ -108,4 +109,13 @@ def create_loadgen(loadgen_type, loadgen_cfg):
     elif loadgen_type.find("stress") >= 0:
         return Stress(loadgen_cfg)
 
+def create_pktfwd(pktfwd_class):
+    """Return a new packet forwarder controller
 
+    The returned controller is configured with the given
+    packet forwarder class.
+
+    :param pktfwd_class: Reference to packet forwarder class to be used.
+    :return: packet forwarder controller
+    """
+    return PktFwdController(pktfwd_class)