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diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst index b018d37d..ae75352f 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -927,6 +927,65 @@ statistics is driven by configuration option ``TRAFFICGEN_TREX_LATENCY_PPS`` as TRAFFICGEN_TREX_LATENCY_PPS = 1000 + +DPPD-PROX +--------- + +Installation +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The library to interact with DPPD-Prox traffic generator is installed using the following commands: + + +.. code-block:: console + + cd systems/pythonlibs + ./add_prox.sh + +Configuration +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The configuration starts with setting the TRAFFICGEN parameter to 'Prox'. +Prox specific configurations can be categorized as below. + +The configuration of cpu-cores to run the processes is very important in prox. +Following three parameters constitutes cpu-cores configuration. +Restrict the latency cores to just 1. + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_MASTER_CORES = "10" + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_GENERATOR_CORES = "11,12,13" + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_LATENCY_CORES = "14" + +There are 3 files that are used as part of configuration to interact with Prox. +The generator-config file is the file that was used to run Prox. +The environment file (.env) defines role-specifc configuration for Prox instances. +A role could be a generator, swap, sink, etc. +The .test file defines test-specific configurations. + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_GENERATOR_CONFIG_FILENAME = "vineperf-baremetal.cfg" + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_ENV_FILE = "rapid-vineperf-baremetal.env" + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_TEST_FILE = "tst009.test" + +These configurations enables to connect to running Prox traffic generator. + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_GENERATOR_USER = "root" + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_GENERATOR_KEYFILE = "node4priv.pem" + +Finally, some minimal traffic-specific configurations that are self-explanatory. + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_PKTSIZES = "[64]" + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_LATENCY_BUCKETS = "20" + TRAFFICGEN_PROX_RUNTIME='10' + + SR-IOV and Multistream layer 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T-Rex by default only accepts packets on the receive side if the destination mac matches the |