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authorMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2017-03-14 12:54:39 +0000
committerMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2017-03-24 08:06:45 +0000
commit725033715118bc318fdd6aa3745c2c07ca714086 (patch)
treebae5202a755c6a21d59cb17277b469167e35baeb /docs/testing/developer/design
parent0ccb44ca1f90200a2e41f25fcf499074c819002d (diff)
multistream: Support huge number of streams
Restriction of 64K streams was limited only to L4 stream type. In case of L3 and L2 stream type, it is possible to define unlimited number of streams to be simulated by traffic generator. JIRA: VSPERF-498 Change-Id: I4ce3253299473127d135c01543999a8593b9556f Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Al Morton <acmorton@att.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Bill Michalowski <bmichalo@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sridhar Rao <sridhar.rao@spirent.com> Reviewed-by: Trevor Cooper <trevor.cooper@intel.com>
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diff --git a/docs/testing/developer/design/vswitchperf_design.rst b/docs/testing/developer/design/vswitchperf_design.rst
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@@ -305,7 +305,8 @@ Detailed description of ``TRAFFIC`` dictionary items follows:
'multistream' - Defines number of flows simulated by traffic generator.
Value 0 disables multistream feature
Data type: int
- Supported values: 0-65535
+ Supported values: 0-65536 for 'L4' stream type
+ unlimited for 'L2' and 'L3' stream types
Default value: 0.
'stream_type' - Stream type is an extension of the "multistream" feature.
If multistream is disabled, then stream type will be