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diff --git a/docs/configguide/installation.rst b/docs/configguide/installation.rst
index 476919af..ed414a8b 100755..100644
--- a/docs/configguide/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/configguide/installation.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,39 @@
Installing vswitchperf
======================
+Downloading vswitchperf
+-----------------------
+
+The vswitchperf can be downloaded from its official git repository, which is
+hosted by OPNFV. It is necessary to install a ``git`` at your DUT before downloading
+vswitchperf. Installation of ``git`` is specific to the packaging system used by
+Linux OS installed at DUT.
+
+Example of installation of GIT package and its dependencies:
+
+* in case of OS based on RedHat Linux:
+
+ .. code:: bash
+
+ sudo yum install git
+
+
+* in case of Ubuntu or Debian:
+
+ .. code:: bash
+
+ sudo apt-get install git
+
+After the ``git`` is successfully installed at DUT, then vswitchperf can be downloaded
+as follows:
+
+.. code:: bash
+
+ git clone http://git.opnfv.org/vswitchperf
+
+The last command will create a directory ``vswitchperf`` with a local copy of vswitchperf
+repository.
+
Supported Operating Systems
---------------------------
@@ -21,72 +54,94 @@ Supported Operating Systems
Supported vSwitches
-------------------
+
The vSwitch must support Open Flow 1.3 or greater.
-* OVS (built from source).
-* OVS with DPDK (built from source).
+* Open vSwitch
+* Open vSwitch with DPDK support
+* TestPMD application from DPDK (supports p2p and pvp scenarios)
Supported Hypervisors
---------------------
-* Qemu version 2.3 or greater.
+* Qemu version 2.3 or greater (version 2.5.0 is recommended)
-Available VNFs
+Supported VNFs
--------------
-A simple VNF that forwards traffic through a VM, using:
+
+In theory, it is possible to use any VNF image, which is compatible
+with supported hypervisor. However such VNF must ensure, that appropriate
+number of network interfaces is configured and that traffic is properly
+forwarded among them. For new vswitchperf users it is recommended to start
+with official vloop-vnf_ image, which is maintained by vswitchperf community.
+
+.. _vloop-vnf:
+
+vloop-vnf
+=========
+
+The official VM image is called vloop-vnf and it is available for free download
+from OPNFV artifactory. This image is based on Linux Ubuntu distribution and it
+supports following applications for traffic forwarding:
* DPDK testpmd
* Linux Bridge
* Custom l2fwd module
-The official VM image is called vloop-vnf and it is available for free
-download at OPNFV website.
+The vloop-vnf can be downloaded to DUT, for example by ``wget``:
+
+ .. code:: bash
+
+ wget http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160823.qcow2
-vloop-vnf changelog:
-====================
+**NOTE:** In case that ``wget`` is not installed at your DUT, you could install it at RPM
+based system by ``sudo yum install wget`` or at DEB based system by ``sudo apt-get install
+wget``.
-* `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160823`_
+Changelog of vloop-vnf:
- * ethtool installed
- * only 1 NIC is configured by default to speed up boot with 1 NIC setup
- * security updates applied
+ * `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160823`_
-* `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160804`_
+ * ethtool installed
+ * only 1 NIC is configured by default to speed up boot with 1 NIC setup
+ * security updates applied
- * Linux kernel 4.4.0 installed
- * libnuma-dev installed
- * security updates applied
+ * `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160804`_
-* `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160303`_
+ * Linux kernel 4.4.0 installed
+ * libnuma-dev installed
+ * security updates applied
- * snmpd service is disabled by default to avoid error messages during VM boot
- * security updates applied
+ * `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160303`_
-* `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20151216`_
+ * snmpd service is disabled by default to avoid error messages during VM boot
+ * security updates applied
- * version with development tools required for build of DPDK and l2fwd
+ * `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20151216`_
-Other Requirements
-------------------
-The test suite requires Python 3.3 and relies on a number of other
-packages. These need to be installed for the test suite to function.
+ * version with development tools required for build of DPDK and l2fwd
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+The test suite requires Python 3.3 or newer and relies on a number of other
+system and python packages. These need to be installed for the test suite
+to function.
Installation of required packages, preparation of Python 3 virtual
environment and compilation of OVS, DPDK and QEMU is performed by
script **systems/build_base_machine.sh**. It should be executed under
user account, which will be used for vsperf execution.
-**Please Note**: Password-less sudo access must be configured for given
+**NOTE:** Password-less sudo access must be configured for given
user account before script is executed.
-Execution of installation script:
-
.. code:: bash
$ cd systems
$ ./build_base_machine.sh
-**Please Note**: you don't need to go into any of the systems subdirectories,
+**NOTE:** you don't need to go into any of the systems subdirectories,
simply run the top level **build_base_machine.sh**, your OS will be detected
automatically.
@@ -96,52 +151,65 @@ In case of CentOS 7 or RHEL it will install Python 3.3 from an additional
repository provided by Software Collections (`a link`_). Installation script
will also use `virtualenv`_ to create a vsperf virtual environment, which is
isolated from the default Python environment. This environment will reside in a
-directory called **vsperfenv** in $HOME.
+directory called **vsperfenv** in $HOME. It will ensure, that system wide Python
+installation is not modified or broken by VSPERF installation. The complete list
+of Python packages installed inside virtualenv can be found at file
+``requirements.txt``, which is located at vswitchperf repository.
-**Please Note**: For RHEL 7.3 Enterprise and CentOS 7.3 OVS Vanilla is not
+**NOTE:** For RHEL 7.3 Enterprise and CentOS 7.3 OVS Vanilla is not
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.
+Using vswitchperf
+-----------------
+
You will need to activate the virtual environment every time you start a
new shell session. Its activation is specific to your OS:
-CentOS 7 and RHEL
-=================
+* CentOS 7 and RHEL
-.. code:: bash
+ .. code:: bash
- $ scl enable python33 bash
- $ cd $HOME/vsperfenv
- $ source bin/activate
+ $ scl enable python33 bash
+ $ source $HOME/vsperfenv/bin/activate
-Fedora and Ubuntu
-=================
+* Fedora and Ubuntu
-.. code:: bash
+ .. code:: bash
- $ cd $HOME/vsperfenv
- $ source bin/activate
+ $ source $HOME/vsperfenv/bin/activate
+
+After the virtual environment is configued, then VSPERF can be used.
+For example:
+
+ .. code:: bash
+
+ (vsperfenv) $ cd vswitchperf
+ (vsperfenv) $ ./vsperf --help
Gotcha
-^^^^^^
+======
+
+In case you will see following error during environment activation:
+
.. code:: bash
- $ source bin/activate
+ $ source $HOME/vsperfenv/bin/activate
Badly placed ()'s.
-Check what type of shell you are using
+then check what type of shell you are using:
.. code:: bash
- echo $shell
+ $ echo $SHELL
/bin/tcsh
See what scripts are available in $HOME/vsperfenv/bin
.. code:: bash
- $ ls bin/
+ $ ls $HOME/vsperfenv/bin/
activate activate.csh activate.fish activate_this.py
source the appropriate script
@@ -195,11 +263,11 @@ your configuration in the ``02_vswitch.conf`` file.
'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 will be
-used to configure vswitchd via ovs-vsctl calls.
+**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.
-With the --socket-mem argument set to use 1 hugepage on the specified sockets as
+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.
@@ -207,7 +275,7 @@ VSPerf will verify hugepage amounts are free before executing test
environments. In case of hugepage amounts not being free, test initialization
will fail and testing will stop.
-**Please Note**: In some instances on a test failure dpdk resources may not
+**NOTE:** In some instances on a test failure dpdk resources may not
release hugepages used in dpdk configuration. It is recommended to configure a
few extra hugepages to prevent a false detection by VSPerf that not enough free
hugepages are available to execute the test environment. Normally dpdk would use
@@ -227,6 +295,6 @@ You can review your hugepage amounts by executing the following command
cat /proc/meminfo | grep Huge
If no hugepages are available vsperf will try to automatically allocate some.
-Allocation is controlled by HUGEPAGE_RAM_ALLOCATION configuration parameter in
+Allocation is controlled by ``HUGEPAGE_RAM_ALLOCATION`` configuration parameter in
``02_vswitch.conf`` file. Default is 2GB, resulting in either 2 1GB hugepages
or 1024 2MB hugepages.
diff --git a/docs/design/index.rst b/docs/design/index.rst
index a8a076f4..a8a076f4 100755..100644
--- a/docs/design/index.rst
+++ b/docs/design/index.rst
diff --git a/docs/design/vswitchperf_design.rst b/docs/design/vswitchperf_design.rst
index 96b97631..bf82f9b8 100755..100644
--- a/docs/design/vswitchperf_design.rst
+++ b/docs/design/vswitchperf_design.rst
@@ -314,10 +314,11 @@ Detailed description of ``TRAFFIC`` dictionary items follows:
of selected transport protocol
Default value: "L4".
'pre_installed_flows'
- - Pre-installed flows is an extension of the multistream"
- feature. If multistream is disabled, then pre-installed
- flows will be ignored. It defines if stream specific flows
- will be inserted into OVS or not.
+ - Pre-installed flows is an extension of the "multistream"
+ feature. If enabled, it will implicitly insert a flow
+ for each stream. If multistream is disabled, then
+ pre-installed flows will be ignored.
+ Note: It is supported only for p2p deployment scenario.
Data type: str
Supported values:
"Yes" - flows will be inserted into OVS
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 37e0c43f..bce2aa61 100755..100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ Performance and Test group and its associated projects, as part of OPNFV
Platform and VNF level testing and validation.
* Project Wiki: https://wiki.opnfv.org/characterize_vswitch_performance_for_telco_nfv_use_cases
-* Project Repository: https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/#/q/vswitchperf
+* Project Repository: https://git.opnfv.org/vswitchperf
+* Project Artifacts: https://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf.html
* Continuous Integration https://build.opnfv.org/ci/view/vswitchperf/
.. toctree::
@@ -34,4 +35,3 @@ Platform and VNF level testing and validation.
Indices
=======
* :ref:`search`
-
diff --git a/docs/msc/factory_and_loader.msc b/docs/msc/factory_and_loader.msc
index a744607e..a744607e 100755..100644
--- a/docs/msc/factory_and_loader.msc
+++ b/docs/msc/factory_and_loader.msc
diff --git a/docs/msc/traffic_controller.msc b/docs/msc/traffic_controller.msc
index bd66cce1..bd66cce1 100755..100644
--- a/docs/msc/traffic_controller.msc
+++ b/docs/msc/traffic_controller.msc
diff --git a/docs/msc/vsperf.msc b/docs/msc/vsperf.msc
index aec53604..aec53604 100755..100644
--- a/docs/msc/vsperf.msc
+++ b/docs/msc/vsperf.msc
diff --git a/docs/requirements/ietf_draft/draft-ietf-bmwg-vswitch-opnfv-01.xml b/docs/requirements/ietf_draft/draft-ietf-bmwg-vswitch-opnfv-01.xml
index c8a3d99b..c8a3d99b 100755..100644
--- a/docs/requirements/ietf_draft/draft-ietf-bmwg-vswitch-opnfv-01.xml
+++ b/docs/requirements/ietf_draft/draft-ietf-bmwg-vswitch-opnfv-01.xml
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index b5f7f833..b5f7f833 100755..100644
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