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authorMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2018-02-28 06:34:23 -0800
committerMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2018-04-16 08:28:03 +0000
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trex: Add support for burst traffic type
Support for burst traffic type was added into T-Rex. This traffic type is useful for tests, where a limited number of frames should be sent through DUT. JIRA: VSPERF-562 Change-Id: I03b7150e66a0210cce91b20c751b8624c16f951b 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: Sridhar Rao <sridhar.rao@spirent.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Elias <richardx.elias@intel.com> (cherry picked from commit e9ff0fdf355d26d0c171c6c1137c4beb12561233)
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@@ -200,12 +200,16 @@ functions:
which are discussed in detail at :ref:`integration-tests` userguide.
* param **traffic_type**: One of the supported traffic types,
- e.g. **rfc2544_throughput**, **rfc2544_continuous**
- or **rfc2544_back2back**.
- * param **frame_rate**: Defines desired percentage of frame
- rate used during continuous stream tests.
+ e.g. **rfc2544_throughput**, **rfc2544_continuous**,
+ **rfc2544_back2back** or **burst**.
* param **bidir**: Specifies if generated traffic will be full-duplex
(true) or half-duplex (false).
+ * param **frame_rate**: Defines desired percentage of frame
+ rate used during continuous stream tests.
+ * param **burst_size**: Defines a number of frames in the single burst,
+ which is sent by burst traffic type. Burst size is applied for each
+ direction, i.e. the total number of tx frames will be 2*burst_size
+ in case of bidirectional traffic.
* param **multistream**: Defines number of flows simulated by traffic
generator. Value 0 disables MultiStream feature.
* param **stream_type**: Stream Type defines ISO OSI network layer