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authorMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2017-02-27 09:00:50 +0000
committerMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2017-03-15 16:11:45 +0000
commitd1145851ad5cb9b5abe963ee97491aa694d389dc (patch)
tree83898844525496cedbea0b4ed82130008fe87d0d /docs/configguide
parent7c4a2cdcdd99f309dccfe0a24e829bbf3afa95f9 (diff)
vpp: Initial support of VPP vSwitch
Support of VPP was implemented into VSPERF. Initial implementation uses step driven testcases to configure P2P, PVP and PVVP network scenarios. These testcases were prepared for three RFC2544 traffic types, i.e. throughput, continuous stream and back to back. VPP configuration is driven by new configuration option VSWITCH_VPP_ARGS. It is possible to use three types of l2 port connection supported by VPP, i.e. l2 xconnect (default), l2patch and l2 bridge features. Configuration is driven by parameter VSWITCH_VPP_L2_CONNECT_MODE. JIRA: VSPERF-495 Change-Id: Idebef9b10fb0d70796adb3405fec77302de00a7e 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>
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-rw-r--r--docs/configguide/installation.rst32
-rw-r--r--docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst1
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/docs/configguide/installation.rst b/docs/configguide/installation.rst
index bda5a0bc..1965a8f5 100644
--- a/docs/configguide/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/configguide/installation.rst
@@ -165,6 +165,22 @@ built from upstream source due to kernel incompatibilities. Please see the
instructions in the vswitchperf_design document for details on configuring
OVS Vanilla for binary package usage.
+.. _vpp-installation:
+
+VPP installation
+================
+
+Currently vswitchperf installation scripts do not support automatic build
+of VPP. In order to execute tests with VPP, it is required to install it
+manually. Please refer to the official documentation of `fd.io`_ project to
+install VPP from `packages`_ or from the `sources`_.
+
+See details about :ref:`vpp-test`.
+
+.. _fd.io: https://fd.io/
+.. _packages: https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Installing_VPP_binaries_from_packages
+.. _sources: https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Build,_install,_and_test_images
+
Using vswitchperf
-----------------
@@ -260,20 +276,10 @@ your configuration in the ``02_vswitch.conf`` file.
.. code:: bash
- VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS = ['-c', '0x4', '-n', '4', '--socket-mem 1024,1024']
- VSWITCHD_DPDK_CONFIG = {
- 'dpdk-init' : 'true',
- 'dpdk-lcore-mask' : '0x4',
- 'dpdk-socket-mem' : '1024,1024',
- }
-
-**NOTE:** Option ``VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS`` is used for vswitchd, which supports ``--dpdk``
-parameter. In recent vswitchd versions, option ``VSWITCHD_DPDK_CONFIG`` is
-used to configure vswitchd via ``ovs-vsctl`` calls.
+ DPDK_SOCKET_MEM = ['1024', '0']
-With the ``--socket-mem`` argument set to use 1 hugepage on the specified sockets as
-seen above, the configuration will need 10 hugepages total to run all tests
-within vsperf if the pagesize is set correctly to 1GB.
+**NOTE:** Option ``DPDK_SOCKET_MEM`` is used by all vSwitches with DPDK support.
+It means Open vSwitch, VPP and TestPMD.
VSPerf will verify hugepage amounts are free before executing test
environments. In case of hugepage amounts not being free, test initialization
diff --git a/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst
index 3c33d4ef..4e42b2be 100644
--- a/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst
+++ b/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst
@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ For RFC2889 tests, specifying the locations for the monitoring ports is mandator
Necessary parameters are:
.. code-block:: console
+
TRAFFICGEN_STC_RFC2889_TEST_FILE_NAME
TRAFFICGEN_STC_EAST_CHASSIS_ADDR = " "
TRAFFICGEN_STC_EAST_SLOT_NUM = " "