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| author |   Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> | 2017-11-28 15:22:30 -0500 |
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| committer |   Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> | 2017-12-13 10:38:49 +0000 |
| commit | bdc5346c3d2170d857274262e1ecf6872d00249e (patch) | |
| tree | 625e3f2ce3cd6b6f1eed811854f29e455317e9de /docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst | |
| parent | aa533b8a33eb0888b1f09ae8e773cfbeb1d3dda1 (diff) | |
trex_learning: Add learning packet option to T-Rex testing
Adds packet learning option which is available on other
Traffic generators as a feature. This adds this feature to the
Trex implementation inside of VSPerf.
JIRA: VSPERF-547
Change-Id: Iaf4d0721b22eb780c25e29295c112d4fcb47b22c
Signed-off-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst index 4b9eec6e..535f7995 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 |