ssh: add new get_file_obj method to fetch remote files

We can either cat remote files, or we can just sftp get
them.

use sftp get for /proc/cpuinfo since it can be so very large
on systems with 88+ cores.

Change-Id: I420b8c5eefdce8bb3e3b13dcc8257583dee537c1
Signed-off-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/yardstick/network_services/helpers/cpu.py b/yardstick/network_services/helpers/cpu.py
index a5ba6c31e..8c21754ff 100644
--- a/yardstick/network_services/helpers/cpu.py
+++ b/yardstick/network_services/helpers/cpu.py
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 
+import io
+
+
 class CpuSysCores(object):
 
     def __init__(self, connection=""):
@@ -20,8 +23,9 @@ class CpuSysCores(object):
         self.connection = connection
 
     def _open_cpuinfo(self):
-        lines = []
-        lines = self.connection.execute("cat /proc/cpuinfo")[1].split(u'\n')
+        cpuinfo = io.BytesIO()
+        self.connection.get_file_obj("/proc/cpuinfo", cpuinfo)
+        lines = cpuinfo.getvalue().decode('utf-8').splitlines()
         return lines
 
     def _get_core_details(self, lines):