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authorMartin Goldammer <martin.goldammer6@gmail.com>2017-09-18 03:48:01 -0700
committerMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2017-09-21 09:34:29 +0000
commita91c1c1a1c31cd049f3cfeb665ea6d0b7aeec7de (patch)
tree1dfed6d1faee03f9e02c3d951cc335176e7ded73 /docs/testing
parentf2cf028bcb55b868f62fd25c692bd32dd92c27ef (diff)
trex: RFC2544 Throughput bugfixing
Changes introduced by patch: * Ensure that correct results with given lossreate are returned * Add threshold value to specify the accurancy of RFC2544 Throughput measurement. Default value is 0.05. JIRA: VSPERF-530 Change-Id: I8148deba9039c3a0feb6394d6671aa10c5afaf0a Signed-off-by: Martin Goldammer <martin.goldammer6@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Al Morton <acmorton@att.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Trevor Cooper <trevor.cooper@intel.com> (cherry picked from commit f296fd2a44a1eb947e0b0ddecf017231d05abece)
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@@ -810,3 +810,14 @@ Example of this configuration is in conf/03_traffic.conf or conf/10_custom.conf.
TRAFFICGEN_TREX_USER has to have sudo permission and passwordless access.
TRAFFICGEN_TREX_BASE_DIR is the place, where is stored 't-rex-64' file.
+
+It is possible to specify the accurancy of RFC2544 Throughput measurement.
+Threshold below defines maximal difference between frame rate of successful
+(i.e. defined frameloss was reached) and unsuccessful (i.e. frameloss was
+exceeded) iterations.
+
+Default value of this parameter is defined in conf/03_traffic.conf as follows:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ TRAFFICGEN_TREX_RFC2544_TPUT_THRESHOLD = ''