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| author |   Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> | 2018-01-04 10:32:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> | 2018-01-12 09:43:57 +0000 |
| commit | ce8e18ddcfb84f887aa91f38133781da2f592309 (patch) | |
| tree | 117e7ae47b15326efc18ec5ca87a5315ac930a9a /docs/testing | |
| parent | a2d97b05fb3b7ff62f62bcb16d36c51e3df6ca77 (diff) | |
trex: Add support for traffic capture
A support of traffic capture was added into T-Rex.
It allows to write a functional tests, which will
verify proper vSwitch functionality by inspection
of packets received by T-Rex.
A testcase example was added into integration
testcases.
JIRA: VSPERF-556
Change-Id: I5ad28479ca2ec29760b68f24510af1a6d74866ae
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>
Reviewed-by: Richard Elias <richardx.elias@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/testing')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/testing/developer/devguide/design/vswitchperf_design.rst | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst | 10 |
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/testing/developer/devguide/design/vswitchperf_design.rst b/docs/testing/developer/devguide/design/vswitchperf_design.rst index 33051493..96ffcf62 100644 --- a/docs/testing/developer/devguide/design/vswitchperf_design.rst +++ b/docs/testing/developer/devguide/design/vswitchperf_design.rst @@ -415,6 +415,30 @@ Detailed description of ``TRAFFIC`` dictionary items follows: congestion (DEI header field). Data type: int (NOTE: must fit to 1 bit) Default value: 0 + 'capture' - A dictionary with traffic capture configuration. + NOTE: It is supported only by T-Rex traffic generator. + 'enabled' - Specifies if traffic should be captured + Data type: bool + Default value: False + 'tx_ports' - A list of ports, where frames transmitted towards DUT will + be captured. Ports have numbers 0 and 1. TX packet capture + is disabled if list of ports is empty. + Data type: list + Default value: [0] + 'rx_ports' - A list of ports, where frames received from DUT will + be captured. Ports have numbers 0 and 1. RX packet capture + is disabled if list of ports is empty. + Data type: list + Default value: [1] + 'count' - A number of frames to be captured. The same count value + is applied to both TX and RX captures. + Data type: int + Default value: 1 + 'filter' - An expression used to filter TX and RX packets. It uses the same + syntax as pcap library. See pcap-filter man page for additional + details. + Data type: str + Default value: '' .. _configuration-of-guest-options: diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst index 91c4084e..029247f2 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ and is configured as follows: 'stream_type' : 'L4', 'pre_installed_flows' : 'No', # used by vswitch implementation 'flow_type' : 'port', # used by vswitch implementation - + 'flow_control' : False, # supported only by IxNet + 'learning_frames' : True, # supported only by IxNet 'l2': { 'framesize': 64, 'srcmac': '00:00:00:00:00:00', @@ -67,6 +68,13 @@ and is configured as follows: 'priority': 0, 'cfi': 0, }, + 'capture': { + 'enabled': False, + 'tx_ports' : [0], + 'rx_ports' : [1], + 'count': 1, + 'filter': '', + }, } The framesize parameter can be overridden from the configuration |