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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/testing/developer/devguide/design/vswitchperf_design.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst | 12 |
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diff --git a/docs/testing/developer/devguide/design/vswitchperf_design.rst b/docs/testing/developer/devguide/design/vswitchperf_design.rst index bc54476c..50682a93 100644 --- a/docs/testing/developer/devguide/design/vswitchperf_design.rst +++ b/docs/testing/developer/devguide/design/vswitchperf_design.rst @@ -477,6 +477,20 @@ Detailed description of ``TRAFFIC`` dictionary items follows: 'enabled' - Specifies if the histogram provisioning is enabled or not. 'type' - Defines how histogram is provided. Currenty only 'Default' is defined. 'Default' - Default histogram as provided by the Traffic-generator. + 'imix' - A dictionary for IMIX Specification. + 'enabled' - Specifies if IMIX is enabled or NOT. + 'type' - The specification type - denotes how IMIX is specified. + Currently only 'genome' type is defined. + Other types (ex: table-of-proportions) can be added in future. + 'genome' - The Genome Encoding of Pkt-Sizes and Ratio for IMIX. + The Ratio is inferred from the number of particular geneome characters + Genome encoding is described in RFC 6985. This specification is closest + to the method described in section 6.2 of RFC 6985. + Ex: 'aaaaaaaddddg' denotes ratio of 7:4:1 of packets sizes 64:512:1518. + Note: Exact-sequence is not maintained, only the ratio of packets + is ensured. + Data type: str + Default Value: 'aaaaaaaddddg' .. _configuration-of-guest-options: diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst index ae745543..705e5397 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ and is configured as follows: 'enabled': False, 'type': 'Default', }, + 'imix': { + 'enabled': True, + 'type': 'genome', + 'genome': 'aaaaaaaddddg', + }, } A detailed description of the ``TRAFFIC`` dictionary can be found at @@ -119,6 +124,13 @@ commandline above to: $ ./vsperf --test-params "TRAFFICGEN_PKT_SIZES=(x,y);TRAFFICGEN_DURATION=10;" \ "TRAFFICGEN_RFC2544_TESTS=1" $TESTNAME +If you use imix, set the TRAFFICGEN_PKT_SIZES to 0. + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_PKT_SIZES = (0,) + + .. _trafficgen-dummy: Dummy |