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2020-10-20DOCS: Cleanup for Jerma Release.opensource-tnbt2-3/+2
This patch cleans up documentation folder. 1. Broken links are fixed. 2. LMA docs reorganized. 3. Placeholder for K8S and Openstack Support. Remove tls_verify = False line JIRA: VSPERF-627 Signed-off-by: Sridhar K. N. Rao <sridhar.rao@spirent.com> Change-Id: I5ef93919755d351b79fa0bd0416d7d6baeb134a9
2018-09-18docs: Fix typo in SRIOV docsMartin Klozik1-4/+4
Details about SRIOV kernel settings were accidentally interrupted by VPP related note. JIRA: VSPERF-198 Change-Id: Id9d5ed39d62fbe16cf2e4f4aa730f5d15845b727 Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martin.klozik@tieto.com> Reviewed-by: Al Morton <acmorton@att.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sridhar Rao <sridhar.rao@spirent.com>
2018-06-05ovs: Change default bridge namesMartin Klozik3-13/+13
Default names of OVS bridges used by vsperf were changed to avoid accidental collision with 3rd party bridges (e.g. linux bridges) already configured at DUT. Step driven testcases, which extend existing deployment scenarios, were updated to use appropriate configuration options instead of hardcoded bridge names. JIRA: VSPERF-580 Change-Id: I8c7eee6d8f6532485ec3a2cc06f26515e665fb7e Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martin.klozik@tieto.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: Richard Elias <richard.elias@tieto.com>
2018-06-04vswitches/ovs: integration TCs refactoringElias Richard2-8/+9
Refactorization of the tests in for the new teardown functionality, that automatically deletes flows, ports and bridges when OVS stops. JIRA: VSPERF-578 Change-Id: Ibe18f89c59ca5474a638808ed072cccd811ee75d Signed-off-by: Richard Elias <richard.elias@tieto.com> Reviewed-by: Martin Klozik <martin.klozik@tieto.com> Reviewed-by: Al Morton <acmorton@att.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sridhar Rao <sridhar.rao@spirent.com>
2018-05-10bugfix: Fix evaluation order of parametersMartin Klozik1-5/+6
This patch ensures, that testcase definition keywords vSwitch, Trafficgen, VNF and Tunnel Type will have the highest priority to override any values specified via ``Parameters`` section, CLI arguments or configuration files. JIRA: VSPERF-574 Change-Id: Ied799187d489325a32cc4854145fdf9901e7e3e2 Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martin.klozik@tieto.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: Richard Elias <richard.elias@tieto.com>
2018-05-10Merge "docs: Update step driven test documentation"Martin Klozik1-2/+19
2018-05-10Merge "docs: Update configuration related docs"Martin Klozik1-36/+51
2018-05-09Merge "ovsdpdk: Custom Statistics Tests"Sridhar Rao1-0/+16
2018-05-04integration: Tunneling protocols support updateMartin Klozik1-1/+7
Support of tunneling protocols by IxNet was limited to OP2P and PTUNP deployment scenarios. This patch adds generic support for generation of VXLAN, GRE and GENEVE frames by IxNet into integration testcases. As part of this patch, the processing of tunnel type settings was modified to follow VSPERF priority order during configuration parameter evaluation. JIRA: VSPERF-573 Change-Id: I7bf7d4a5545a6b130cc3ac252efaabe4b97bdb29 Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martin.klozik@tieto.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: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Elias <richard.elias@tieto.com>
2018-04-26docs: Update step driven test documentationMartin Klozik1-2/+19
A minor update of step driven documentation, which should help with better understanding of this feature. Change-Id: I58d1483f98520a008c8cbea9c820343c33835e6f 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>
2018-04-25ovsdpdk: Custom Statistics TestsRichard Elias1-0/+16
Functional testcases for the validation of Custom Statistics support by OVS. The Custom Statistics feature allows Custom Statistics to be accessed by VSPERF. These statistics include for example rx_missed_errors, rx_errors, tx_errors, rx_mbuf_allocation_errors, rx_crc_errors. These testcases require DPDK v17.11, the latest Open vSwitch(v2.9.90) and the IxNet traffic-generator. JIRA: VSPERF-572 Change-Id: I30cbe6067d6bdd0fc2a262b86f306b66a77d085f Signed-off-by: Richard Elias <richardx.elias@intel.com> 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>
2018-04-23docs: Update configuration related docsMartin Klozik1-36/+51
A minor update of configuration parameter related documentation. Change-Id: Ia97c57162d212541b11ae44aea6eeee8d42f58cb 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>
2018-04-11Doc: Documentation of Additional tools configuration.Sridhar K. N. Rao1-0/+6
This patch adds tools.rst under docs/testing/user/configguide. tools.rst include documentation of installing and configuring Collectors, Loadgens and LLC-Cache Management. Changed Interested to Interesting and updated barometer info. Change-Id: Id8de4d25619780636d242a04304696f4093b4c07 Signed-off-by: Sridhar K. N. Rao <sridhar.rao@spirent.com>
2018-03-19vsperf: Performance Matrix functionality supportRichard Elias1-1/+75
The patch expands the vsperf --test-params argument with list functionality, which enables running multiple tests with different parameters. If more tests are run then parameters provided, the last parameters will be reused. Example: ./vsperf --test-params "['','TRAFFICGEN_PKTSIZE = (64,)']" phy2phy_cont phy2phy_cont CUMULATIVE_PARAMS if true, instead of using the default settings, each test will take the parameters of the previous test before applying it's own. The patch also adds the vsperf --matrix argument which analyzes and compares the results of all the tests run, printing it as a table, as well as saving it into a file in the results directory. MATRIX_METRIC metric used by Performance Matrix to compare tests. JIRA: VSPERF-554 Change-Id: I71530ddf110890612236a7e57039f249609c835b Signed-off-by: Richard Elias <richardx.elias@intel.com> Reviewed-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>
2018-03-12trex: Tests with T-Rex in VMMartin Klozik1-0/+27
Patch introduces a set of testcases with T-Rex running inside VM. JIRA: VSPERF-560 Change-Id: I5b0a0220a2d72428ae1210ee9590d39abdfb9c1d Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> Signed-off-by: RadoslawX Glombiowski <radoslawx.glombiowski@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Al Morton <acmorton@att.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sridhar Rao <sridhar.rao@spirent.com>
2018-01-19Merge "documentation: Traffic Capture methods"Martin Klozik2-0/+298
2018-01-18documentation: Traffic Capture methodsRichard Elias2-0/+298
Created new chapter on Traffic Capture and added short descriptions and explanation for each of the three methods currently supported by VSPERF. Subchapters include Traffic Capture in the VM, Traffic for testing NICs with Hardware acceleration and Traffic Capture on the Trraffic Generator. JIRA: VSPERF-556 Change-Id: I280c54aa73961e0bbb61b40e8fe476bd3e92ff7d Signed-off-by: Richard Elias <richardx.elias@intel.com> Reviewed-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>
2018-01-11capture: Traffic capture examplesMartin Klozik1-1/+3
Traffic can be captured also at DUT side. Two options are supported by vsperf: 1) Traffic is captured inside VM after it has been processed by vSwitch. This can be used for verification of vSwitch frame modification functionality, including HW offloading at ingress side. 2) Another NIC under the test (NIC2) is added into standard VSPERF DUT setup. Traffic is then forwarded from TGen through NIC and vSwitch to NIC2 and then over patch cable back to NIC2, the vSwitch, NIC and to the traffic generator. This setup supports also verification of HW offloading at egress side of NIC2 and thus it can be used for validation of smart NICS. Both options above are traffic generator agnostic if compared to direct support of traffic capture by traffic generator. This patch introduces example testcases for both options. Detailed documentation will be pushed as a standalone patch. JIRA: VSPERF-556 Change-Id: I23e12e45768ae4dbe9442f74d8391c3d5b2c7895 Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Elias <richardx.elias@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>
2017-12-12teststeps: Improvements of step driven TCMartin Klozik1-0/+15
This patch adds support of access to VMs deployed automatically by deployment scenario (e.g. pvp, pvvp4, etc.). It also modifies filter for checking output of executed commands to correctly handle different end of line encodings (i.e. \n vs. \n\r). JIRA: VSPERF-539 Change-Id: Ifc796d992b90e316bad5853aaefce79e439e294d 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>
2017-11-20regression: OVS/DPDK regression testsMartin Klozik1-0/+281
A set of regression tests for verification of OVS/DPDK features was introduced. Following features are tested: * DPDK NIC Support * DPDK Hotplug Support * RX Checksum Support * Flow Control Support * Multiqueue Support * Vhost User * Virtual Devices Support * NUMA Support * Jumbo Frame Support * Rate Limiting * Quality of Service JIRA: VSPERF-539 Change-Id: I6c83e9c38e29f197a5236ac68c88d7045fef775b Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Goldammer <martinx.goldammer@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Elias <richardx.elias@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>
2017-11-03teststeps: Improvements and bugfixing of teststepsMartin Klozik2-37/+90
This patch introduces several improvements and small bugfixes of teststeps. These changes were identified during implementation of OVS/DPDK regression tests. Patch content: * teststeps: step aliases were implemented * teststeps: improved filtering by regex for any step, which returns string or list of stings; filter will process all lines * teststeps: support for log object * teststeps: support for trafficgen get_results call * teststeps: configurable suppression of step validation * trafficgen: remove old results before traffic is executed * trafficgen: support for flow control on/off (IxNet) * trafficgen: support for configurable learning frames (IxNet) * trafficgen: support for runtime changes of TRAFFICGEN_PKT_SIZES, _DURATION and _LOSSRATE * vnf: flush pexpect output of previous commands * vnf: use execute_and_wait() to ensure correct cmds order * vnf: dpdk vHost User interface name set according to its type, e.g. dpdkvhostuserclient * vswitch: support for OVS restart * decap: simplify configuration of tunneling decapsulation tests * settings: values of all configuration options are restored after TC execution * modified formatting of test description used by --list * testcase name and description is logged before its execution * small bugfixes JIRA: VSPERF-539 Change-Id: I550ba0d897ece89abd3f33d6d66f545c4d863e7b 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>
2017-10-04doc_review: Review docs for accuracy and grammarChristian Trautman2-6/+8
Fix issues with grammar and accuracy. JIRA: VSPERF-536 Change-Id: Ia703d306bb7a14b11e09ab4077b8adfa5fb5e6af Signed-off-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
2017-08-30doc: Include list of TCs in docMartin Klozik2-0/+124
List of vsperf "inbox" testcases was added into documentation. This patch also fixes: * a few SPHINX warnings and errors * empty userguide index JIRA: VSPERF-519 Change-Id: I417ed40130f0c7de4f76551f3f1cac0cb1e6da89 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>
2017-08-14Merge "tests: L3, L4 and VxLAN tests for OVS & VPP"Martin Klozik1-0/+37
2017-08-04tests: L3, L4 and VxLAN tests for OVS & VPPMartin Klozik1-0/+37
A set of tests was introduced with focus on L3, L4 and VxLAN performance of OVS and VPP. New testcases were created for phy2phy network scenario. In case of PVP and PVVP, only OVS testcases are available. Notes: * two sets of OVS P2P testcases were created, one creates unique flow for each IP address involved in the test (performance sensitive); Second set inserts just one flow with large network mask (tests with _mask suffix). * three different types of VPP P2P L3 testcases were created to demonstrate performance impact of multi ARP entries or IP routes. * VPP multi ARP record based testcases use a set of "workarounds" to load a large number of ARP entries. It is not possible to use "set ip arp count" syntax, as it doesn't work well for large count values (e.g. 60K) * OVS VxLAN testcases utilize existing OP2P deployment scenario and thus it can be used also with GRE and GENEVE tunnel types. Tunnel type to be used is defined by test configuration option "Tunnel Type". JIRA: VSPERF-518 Change-Id: I65adad976f12d8625d918a1996eb42693c511ee1 Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@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: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter@intel.com>
2017-07-21dpdk: Support dpdk vhost-user client modeMartin Klozik1-1/+5
Support of vhost-user client mode has been added for both OVS and VPP. VSPERF configures vhost-user server mode in vswitches by default for backward compatibility. Support of vhost-user server mode is deprecated in OVS and it can be removed in future releases. Once it will happen, we have to change vsperf default behavior to usage of vhost-user client ports at vswitch side. This patch also fixes processing of boolean configuration parameters passed via --test-params option. In the past it was not possible to set boolean value to False through --test-params option. JIRA: VSPERF-517 Change-Id: I65e341f820edd6c720043a4acc74c5140b05db18 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>
2017-06-02tests: Improvement of step driven testcasesMartin Klozik2-2/+38
A set of improvements was introduced to enhance step driven testcases capabilities. Details: * delay among test steps is configurable by TEST_STEP_DELAY parameter * step driven tool function exec was renamed to exec_shell * new step driven tool function exec_python was introduced to execute a python code * new step driven object sleep was introduced to pause test execution for defined number of seconds. * fixed bug in settings.validate_getValue() to correctly validate access of parameters modified by TEST_PARAMS * new #PARAM() macro was introduced to allow references among configuration parameters * multistream support has been added into ixnetrfc2544v2.tcl, which is used for tunneling protocols test (op2p deployment) * fixed bug in op2p deployment to list interfaces and flows from both bridges involved in the test * test report updated to state exact rfcxxxx type of traffic type, e.g. rfc2544_continuous * test report of step driven testcases was updated to contain measured values from traffic generator in CSV report * method for ovs flow comparison was modified to normalize IPv4 CIDR network addr (e.g. 10.0.0.5/8 => 10.0.0.0/8) JIRA: VSPERF-512 Change-Id: Ib4f38dcdfbf3820dd766b25520da0ad0c81f3293 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: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
2017-05-31Qemu: Mechanism to pass extra qemu cpu features and pin vCPU threadskalyanreddy1-0/+40
JIRA: VSPERF-510 This patch is used to implement the mechanism to pass extra qemu cpu options required to achieve better results/performance. Also used to implement a mechanism to pin the vCPU threads to another pCPU core which helps in reducing the noise from housekeeping thread and packet loss. Change-Id: Ic40fd47d7c4f5556f7e240c6ca671a0535d06ece Signed-off-by: Gundarapu Kalyan Reddy <reddyx.gundarapu@intel.com>
2017-05-03build: Automated VPP buildMartin Klozik1-0/+4
VSPERF makefiles were updated to automatically download and compile VPP. VPP will not be installed into the OS, but it will be executed from VSPERF's src subdirectory. Thus underlying OS is not affected by VPP build required by VSPERF. It also allows quick switch among different versions of various tools used by VSPERF. As part of this patch, VERIFY and MERGE CI jobs were updated to build VPP and test it with basic set of integration tests. JIRA: VSPERF-493 Change-Id: I958b9031c4fefc87c4c63a471d2ba1a0db1eaaa4 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>
2017-04-12Merge "jumbo_frame: Add jumbo frame support"Martin Klozik1-0/+59
2017-03-30jumbo_frame: Add jumbo frame supportChristian Trautman1-0/+59
Add jumbo frame support for all packet forwarding applications inside guest for pxp testing. Enable jumbo frame support for OvsVanilla, OvsDpdkVhostUser, and Packet forwarding. Add minor fix for missing method issue when running packet forwarding tests. The get_version method was missing in the packet_forwaring core module. JIRA: VSPERF-501 Change-Id: Ia99975f47c64259ed2566bde3c85b2779c309e80 Signed-off-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
2017-03-28Fixed indexes in user and developer documentationTrevor Cooper1-5/+0
Change-Id: Iad5c130936a815c41265b29053d2978808ff14bb Signed-off-by: Trevor Cooper <trevor.cooper@intel.com>
2017-03-23Added index files for user and dev doc dirsTrevor Cooper1-0/+10
Change-Id: I0ac84324be97de91c8d4730cd3cb73e994cf28a7 Signed-off-by: Trevor Cooper <trevor.cooper@intel.com>
2017-03-21Updated doc locations for new structureTrevor Cooper4-0/+2269
Change-Id: I8d948bad350ec90618edac5fc451167c06e8baa5 Signed-off-by: Trevor Cooper <trevor.cooper@intel.com>
2017-03-22Revert "Moved doc files to testing document structureTrevor Cooper4-2269/+0
This reverts commit 32a5263216d79ad34041dca55357278f092bb931. Change-Id: I641b967badffd52ffd9e249b75e67bb7c82a8150 Signed-off-by: Trevor Cooper <trevor.cooper@intel.com>
2017-03-21Moved doc files to testing document structure testing/user ... ↵Trevor Cooper4-0/+2269
testing/developer and modified doc index to match dir structure Change-Id: I4b1a535808a48773505fa7874c61707cd349fced Signed-off-by: Trevor Cooper <trevor.cooper@intel.com>