Add testpmd as vswitch class

The purpose of using testpmd instead of OVS is to get the baseline
of the DUT when performing hardware offloading operations.
There are supported different checksum calculation
and txq flags settings.

Change-Id: I93c9b45dcb31eaa1f610b7e061f3dd5936b0e6ec
JIRA: VSPERF-193
Signed-off-by: Robert Wojciechowicz <robertx.wojciechowicz@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dino Simeon Madarang <dino.simeonx.madarang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Castelli <brian.castelli@spirent.com>

1 files changed, 87 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/pkt_fwd/testpmd.py b/tools/pkt_fwd/testpmd.py
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+# Copyright 2016 Intel Corporation.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""VSPERF TestPMD implementation
+"""
+
+import logging
+import pexpect
+from conf import settings
+from src.dpdk import dpdk
+from src.dpdk import TestPMDProcess
+from tools.pkt_fwd.pkt_fwd import IPktFwd
+
+_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+_VSWITCHD_CONST_ARGS = ['--', '-i']
+
+class TestPMD(IPktFwd):
+    """TestPMD implementation (only phy2phy deployment is supported)
+
+    This is wrapper for functionality implemented in ${DPDK}/app/test-pmd.
+
+    The method docstrings document only considerations specific to this
+    implementation. For generic information of the nature of the methods,
+    see the interface definition.
+    """
+
+    _logger = logging.getLogger()
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        vswitchd_args = settings.getValue('VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS')
+        vswitchd_args += _VSWITCHD_CONST_ARGS
+        vswitchd_args += settings.getValue('TESTPMD_ARGS')
+
+        self._nports = len(settings.getValue('WHITELIST_NICS'))
+        self._fwdmode = settings.getValue('TESTPMD_FWD_MODE')
+        self._csum_layer = settings.getValue('TESTPMD_CSUM_LAYER')
+        self._csum_calc = settings.getValue('TESTPMD_CSUM_CALC')
+        self._csum_tunnel = settings.getValue('TESTPMD_CSUM_PARSE_TUNNEL')
+
+        self._testpmd = TestPMDProcess(testpmd_args=vswitchd_args)
+
+    def start(self):
+        """See IPktFwd for general description
+
+        Activates testpmd.
+        """
+        self._logger.info("Starting TestPMD...")
+        dpdk.init()
+        self._testpmd.start()
+        self._logger.info("TestPMD...Started.")
+
+        self._testpmd.send('set fwd {}'.format(self._fwdmode), 1)
+
+        for port in range(self._nports):
+            self._testpmd.send('csum set {} {} {}'.format(
+                self._csum_layer, self._csum_calc, port), 1)
+            self._testpmd.send('csum parse_tunnel {} {}'.format(
+                self._csum_tunnel, port), 1)
+
+        self._testpmd.send('start', 1)
+
+    def stop(self):
+        """See IPktFwd for general description
+
+        Kills testpmd.
+        """
+        try:
+            self._testpmd.send('stop')
+            self._testpmd.wait('Done.', 5)
+            self._testpmd.send('quit', 2)
+            self._testpmd.kill()
+        except pexpect.EOF:
+            pass
+        dpdk.cleanup()
+
+