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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst | 29 | ||||
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diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/installation.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/installation.rst index b08bfa86..7f4d640b 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/installation.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/installation.rst @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ Supported Operating Systems * Fedora 25 (kernel 4.9 requires DPDK 16.11 and newer) * openSUSE 42.2 * openSUSE 42.3 +* openSUSE Tumbleweed +* SLES 15 * RedHat 7.2 Enterprise Linux * RedHat 7.3 Enterprise Linux * Ubuntu 14.04 diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst index 4b9eec6e..91c4084e 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -826,6 +826,15 @@ Default value of this parameter is defined in conf/03_traffic.conf as follows: TRAFFICGEN_TREX_RFC2544_TPUT_THRESHOLD = '' +T-Rex can have learning packets enabled. For certain tests it may be beneficial +to send some packets before starting test traffic to allow switch learning to take +place. This can be adjusted with the following configurations: + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_TREX_LEARNING_MODE=True + TRAFFICGEN_TREX_LEARNING_DURATION=5 + SR-IOV and Multistream layer 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T-Rex by default only accepts packets on the receive side if the destination mac matches the @@ -840,3 +849,23 @@ modified. Enable Promiscuous mode when doing multistream at layer 2 testing with .. code-block:: console TRAFFICGEN_TREX_PROMISCUOUS=True + +RFC2544 Validation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +T-Rex can perform a verification run for a longer duration once the binary search of the +RFC2544 trials have completed. This duration should be at least 60 seconds. This is similar +to other traffic generator functionality where a more sustained time can be attempted to +verify longer runs from the result of the search. This can be configured with the following +params + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_TREX_VERIFICATION_MODE = False + TRAFFICGEN_TREX_VERIFICATION_DURATION = 60 + TRAFFICGEN_TREX_MAXIMUM_VERIFICATION_TRIALS = 10 + +The duration and maximum number of attempted verification trials can be set to change the +behavior of this step. If the verification step fails, it will resume the binary search +with new values where the maximum output will be the last attempted frame rate minus the +current set thresh hold. diff --git a/docs/testing/user/userguide/teststeps.rst b/docs/testing/user/userguide/teststeps.rst index 8be67310..40cc732c 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/userguide/teststeps.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/userguide/teststeps.rst @@ -131,6 +131,21 @@ of supported objects and their most common functions follows: ['vnf2', 'stop'], ['vnf1', 'stop'], + * ``VNF[ID]`` - provides access to VNFs deployed automatically by testcase deployment + scenario. For Example ``pvvp`` deployment automatically starts two VNFs before any + TestStep is executed. It is possible to access these VNFs by VNF0 and VNF1 labels. + + List of supported functions is identical to ``vnf[ID]`` option above except functions + ``start`` and ``stop``. + + Examples: + + .. code-block:: python + + ['VNF0', 'execute_and_wait', 'ifconfig eth2 5.5.5.1/24 up'], + ['VNF1', 'execute_and_wait', 'ifconfig eth2 5.5.5.2/24 up', 120, 'root.*#'], + ['VNF2', 'execute_and_wait', 'ping -c1 5.5.5.1'], + * ``trafficgen`` - triggers traffic generation List of supported functions: |