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authorMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>2018-02-26 12:25:21 +0000
committerGerrit Code Review <gerrit@opnfv.org>2018-02-26 12:25:21 +0000
commit5f01522a61c0a7d70f721fbbb4a378ab0992d395 (patch)
treee787f6e82e0c0b6b7f8d6f1e98dde326eba035c4 /docs/testing
parent06385651cf8d5db946b800a94f2453c11114f973 (diff)
parent3f0fe318257a7d1c73a17081302946cdc4e69c00 (diff)
Merge "Trex_speed_improvement: Add logic for dealing with high speed cards"
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@@ -795,6 +795,13 @@ It is neccesary for proper connection between Trex server and VSPERF.
Firewall must allow a connection from DUT (VSPERF) to the T-Rex server running
at TCP port 4501.
+**NOTE:** For high speed cards it may be advantageous to start T-Rex with more transmit queues/cores.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ cd trex-cores/scripts/
+ ./t-rex-64 -i -c 10
+
For additional information about Trex stateless mode see Trex stateless documentation:
https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/trex/doc/trex_stateless.html
@@ -862,6 +869,22 @@ modified. Enable Promiscuous mode when doing multistream at layer 2 testing with
TRAFFICGEN_TREX_PROMISCUOUS=True
+Card Bandwidth Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+T-Rex API will attempt to retrieve the highest possible speed from the card using internal
+calls to port information. If you are using two separate cards then it will take the lowest
+of the two cards as the max speed. If necessary you can try to force the API to use a
+specific maximum speed per port. The below configurations can be adjusted to enable this.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ TRAFFICGEN_TREX_FORCE_PORT_SPEED = True
+ TRAFFICGEN_TREX_PORT_SPEED = 40000 # 40 gig
+
+**Note::** Setting higher than possible speeds will result in unpredictable behavior when running
+tests such as duration inaccuracy and/or complete test failure.
+
RFC2544 Validation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~