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| author |   Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> | 2017-01-23 13:33:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> | 2017-01-23 13:33:56 -0500 |
| commit | 3aa4a6fab319a1e532eb8bb963a4632bc37797ef (patch) | |
| tree | b465d9c98e80fbaae44a735943aec0d01b7d1f4d /docs | |
| parent | 605742c4e23f8aa199395dea96d5758dc2616093 (diff) | |
xena_cont_learning: Adds learning preemption to continuous traffic
Adds a configurable learning preemptive option when running
xena continuous traffic tests. This resolves a missing packet
or two when running OVS tests at flow rates that should not
drop packets.
JIRA: VSPERF-473
Change-Id: I056578ed9c9181287d97aea55a002f09aac14e81
Signed-off-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst index 5190bc8e..b66a1787 100644 --- a/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -516,6 +516,19 @@ Each value modifies the behavior of rfc 2544 throughput testing. Refer to your Xena documentation to understand the behavior changes in modifying these values. +Continuous Traffic Testing +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Xena continuous traffic by default does a 3 second learning preemption to allow +the DUT to receive learning packets before a continuous test is performed. If +a custom test case requires this learning be disabled, you can disable the option +or modify the length of the learning by modifying the following settings. + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_XENA_CONT_PORT_LEARNING_ENABLED = False + TRAFFICGEN_XENA_CONT_PORT_LEARNING_DURATION = 3 + MoonGen ------- |