aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/tools
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
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 /tools
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/functions.py14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/functions.py b/tools/functions.py
index d00200d9..05bde54f 100644
--- a/tools/functions.py
+++ b/tools/functions.py
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import glob
import shutil
from conf import settings as S
+MAX_L4_FLOWS = 65536
+
#
# Support functions
#
@@ -139,3 +141,15 @@ def settings_update_paths():
tools['dpdk_src'] = S.getValue('PATHS')['dpdk']['src']['path']
S.setValue('TOOLS', tools)
+
+def check_traffic(traffic):
+ """Check traffic definition and correct it if needed.
+ """
+ # in case of UDP ports we have only 65536 (0-65535) unique options
+ if traffic['multistream'] > MAX_L4_FLOWS and \
+ traffic['stream_type'] == 'L4':
+ logging.getLogger().warning('Requested amount of L4 flows %s is bigger than '
+ 'number of transport protocol ports. It was set '
+ 'to %s.', traffic['multistream'], MAX_L4_FLOWS)
+ traffic['multistream'] = MAX_L4_FLOWS
+ return traffic