teststeps: Improvements and bugfixing of teststeps

This patch introduces several improvements and small bugfixes
of teststeps. These changes were identified during implementation
of OVS/DPDK regression tests.

Patch content:
* teststeps: step aliases were implemented
* teststeps: improved filtering by regex for any step, which returns string
  or list of stings; filter will process all lines
* teststeps: support for log object
* teststeps: support for trafficgen get_results call
* teststeps: configurable suppression of step validation
* trafficgen: remove old results before traffic is executed
* trafficgen: support for flow control on/off (IxNet)
* trafficgen: support for configurable learning frames (IxNet)
* trafficgen: support for runtime changes of TRAFFICGEN_PKT_SIZES, _DURATION
  and _LOSSRATE
* vnf: flush pexpect output of previous commands
* vnf: use execute_and_wait() to ensure correct cmds order
* vnf: dpdk vHost User interface name set according to its type,
  e.g. dpdkvhostuserclient
* vswitch: support for OVS restart
* decap: simplify configuration of tunneling decapsulation tests
* settings: values of all configuration options are restored after TC execution
* modified formatting of test description used by --list
* testcase name and description is logged before its execution
* small bugfixes

JIRA: VSPERF-539

Change-Id: I550ba0d897ece89abd3f33d6d66f545c4d863e7b
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: Trevor Cooper <trevor.cooper@intel.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vswitches/ovs.py b/vswitches/ovs.py
index 7e16c142..76cabb0d 100644
--- a/vswitches/ovs.py
+++ b/vswitches/ovs.py
@@ -91,6 +91,27 @@ class IVSwitchOvs(IVSwitch, tasks.Process):
 
         self._logger.info("Vswitchd...Started.")
 
+    def restart(self):
+        """ Restart ``ovs-vswitchd`` instance. ``ovsdb-server`` is not restarted.
+
+        :raises: pexpect.EOF, pexpect.TIMEOUT
+        """
+        self._logger.info("Restarting vswitchd...")
+        if os.path.isfile(self._vswitchd_pidfile_path):
+            self._logger.info('Killing ovs-vswitchd...')
+            with open(self._vswitchd_pidfile_path, "r") as pidfile:
+                vswitchd_pid = pidfile.read().strip()
+                tasks.terminate_task(vswitchd_pid, logger=self._logger)
+
+        try:
+            tasks.Process.start(self)
+            self.relinquish()
+        except (pexpect.EOF, pexpect.TIMEOUT) as exc:
+            logging.error("Exception during VSwitch start.")
+            self._kill_ovsdb()
+            raise exc
+        self._logger.info("Vswitchd...Started.")
+
     def configure(self):
         """ Configure vswitchd through ovsdb if needed
         """
@@ -109,6 +130,7 @@ class IVSwitchOvs(IVSwitch, tasks.Process):
         """
         self._logger.info("Terminating vswitchd...")
         self.kill()
+        self._bridges = {}
         self._logger.info("Vswitchd...Terminated.")
 
     def add_switch(self, switch_name, params=None):
@@ -488,3 +510,8 @@ class IVSwitchOvs(IVSwitch, tasks.Process):
         """
         bridge = self._bridges[switch_name]
         return 'stp_enable          : true' in ''.join(bridge.bridge_info())
+
+    def validate_restart(self, dummy_result):
+        """ Validate restart
+        """
+        return True