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| author |   Robert Wojciechowicz <robertx.wojciechowicz@intel.com> | 2015-12-09 10:07:38 +0000 |
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| committer |   Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com> | 2016-01-21 09:41:05 +0000 |
| commit | 9a054248197bdaed71b32e9d9c0ac621bf89c1cd (patch) | |
| tree | c186250f91e658845cd8f3a985517c33a9ba0220 /docs/design | |
| parent | 7caf7a6be0fae6b341181b3e6286372e2e93b4b8 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/design')
| -rwxr-xr-x | docs/design/vswitchperf_design.rst | 25 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/design/vswitchperf_design.rst b/docs/design/vswitchperf_design.rst index b8988458..e139a025 100755 --- a/docs/design/vswitchperf_design.rst +++ b/docs/design/vswitchperf_design.rst @@ -96,16 +96,19 @@ Other Configuration VM, vSwitch, Traffic Generator Independence =========================================== -VSPERF supports different vSwithes, Traffic Generators and VNFs by using -standard object-oriented polymorphism: +VSPERF supports different vSwithes, Traffic Generators, VNFs +and Forwarding Applications by using standard object-oriented polymorphism: * Support for vSwitches is implemented by a class inheriting from IVSwitch. * Support for Traffic Generators is implemented by a class inheriting from ITrafficGenerator. * Support for VNF is implemented by a class inheriting from IVNF. + * Support for Forwarding Applications is implemented by a class inheriting + from IPktFwd. By dealing only with the abstract interfaces the core framework can support -many implementations of different vSwitches, Traffic Generators and VNFs. +many implementations of different vSwitches, Traffic Generators, VNFs +and Forwarding Applications. IVSwitch -------- @@ -163,12 +166,22 @@ IVnf wait(guest_prompt) execute_and_wait (command) +IPktFwd +-------- + + .. code-block:: python + + class IPktFwd: + start() + stop() + + Controllers ----------- -Controllers are used in conjunction with abstract interfaces as way of -decoupling the control of vSwtiches, VNFs and TrafficGenerators from other -components. +Controllers are used in conjunction with abstract interfaces as way +of decoupling the control of vSwtiches, VNFs, TrafficGenerators +and Forwarding Applications from other components. The controlled classes provide basic primitive operations. The Controllers sequence and co-ordinate these primitive operation in to useful actions. For |