From cc3a4bf85074989c28a09b7b141dea5e42701f5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maryam Tahhan Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:42:50 +0000 Subject: docs: updates and move traffic gens to separate doc Move the traffic gen instructions to a separate user guide and add information on usage of the Dummy traffic generator. Update docs to fix PDF build failure and do general clean-up. Removed the numbering from the LTD and added the numbered directive to automate numbering for sections and headers. Add comment anchors that reflect the section numbers. Change-Id: I984ca38456a891c439697ebc1da041bc1d828a15 Signed-off-by: Maryam Tahhan --- docs/release/NEWS.rst | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+) create mode 100755 docs/release/NEWS.rst (limited to 'docs/release/NEWS.rst') diff --git a/docs/release/NEWS.rst b/docs/release/NEWS.rst new file mode 100755 index 00000000..f9520ff2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/release/NEWS.rst @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +=========== +VSPERF NEWS +=========== + +November 2015 +============== +New +--- +- Support of opnfv_test_dashboard + +October 2015 +============== +New +--- +- Support of PVP and PVVP deployment scenarios using Vanilla OVS + +September 2015 +============== +New +--- +- Implementation of system statistics based upon pidstat command line tool. +- Support of PVVP deployment scenario using bhost-cuse and vhost user access + methods + +August 2015 +=========== +New +--- +- Backport and enhancement of reporting +- PVP deployment scenario testing using vhost-cuse as guest access method +- Implementation of LTD.Scalability.RFC2544.0PacketLoss testcase +- Support for background load generation with command line tools like stress + and stress-ng + +July 2015 +========= +New +--- +- PVP deployment scenario testing using vhost-user as guest access method + - Verified on CentOS7 and Fedora 20 + - Requires QEMU 2.2.0 and DPDK 2.0 + +May 2015 +======== + +This is the initial release of a re-designed version of the software +based on community feedback. This initial release supports only the +Phy2Phy deployment scenario and the +LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.PacketLossRatio test - both described in the +OPNFV vswitchperf 'CHARACTERIZE VSWITCH PERFORMANCE FOR TELCO NFV USE +CASES LEVEL TEST DESIGN'. The intention is that more test cases will +follow once the community has digested the initial release. + +New +--- + +- Performance testing with continuous stream +- Vanilla OVS support added. + + - Support for non-DPDK OVS build. + - Build and installation support through Makefile will be added via + next patch(Currently it is possible to manually build ovs and + setting it in vsperf configuration files). + - PvP scenario is not yet implemented. + +- CentOS7 support +- Verified on CentOS7 +- Install & Quickstart documentation + +- Better support for mixing tests types with Deployment Scenarios +- Re-work based on community feedback of TOIT +- Framework support for other vSwitches +- Framework support for non-Ixia traffic generators +- Framework support for different VNFs +- Python3 +- Support for biDirectional functionality for ixnet interface + +Missing +------- + +- xmlunit output is currently disabled -- cgit 1.2.3-korg