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diff --git a/docs/configguide/yardstick_testcases/opnfv_yardstick_tc007.rst b/docs/configguide/yardstick_testcases/opnfv_yardstick_tc007.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a7a4776d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/configguide/yardstick_testcases/opnfv_yardstick_tc007.rst @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +************************************* +Yardstick Test Case Description TC007 +************************************* + +.. _DPDKpktgen: https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/ +.. _rfc2544: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt + ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +|Network Performance | +| | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|test case id | OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC007_Virtual Traffic Classifier Data Plane | +| | Throughput Benchmarking Test in Presence of Noisy | +| | neighbours | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|metric | Throughput | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|test purpose | To measure the throughput supported by the virtual Traffic | +| | Classifier according to the RFC2544 methodology for a | +| | user-defined set of vTC deployment configurations in the | +| | presence of noisy neighbours. | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|configuration | file: opnfv_yardstick_tc007.yaml | +| | | +| | packet_size: size of the packets to be used during the | +| | throughput calculation. | +| | Allowe values: [64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 1280, 1518] | +| | | +| | vnic_type: type of VNIC to be used. | +| | Allowed values are: | +| | - normal: for default OvS port configuration | +| | - direct: for SR-IOV port configuration | +| | | +| | vtc_flavor: OpenStack flavor to be used for the vTC | +| | Default available values are: m1.small, m1.medium, | +| | and m1.large, but the user can create his/her own | +| | flavor and give it as input | +| | | +| | num_of_neighbours: Number of noisy neighbours (VMs) to be | +| | instantiated during the experiment. | +| | Allowed values: range (1, 10) | +| | | +| | amount_of_ram: RAM to be used by each neighbor. | +| | Allowed values: ['250M', '1G', '2G', '3G', '4G', '5G', | +| | '6G', '7G', '8G', '9G', '10G'] | +| | Deault value: 256M | +| | | +| | number_of_cores: Number of noisy neighbours (VMs) to be | +| | instantiated during the experiment. | +| | Allowed values: range (1, 10) | +| | Default value: 1 | +| | | +| | vlan_sender: vlan tag of the network on which the vTC will | +| | receive traffic (VLAN Network 1). | +| | Allowed values: range (1, 4096) | +| | | +| | vlan_receiver: vlan tag of the network on which the vTC | +| | will send traffic back to the packet generator | +| | (VLAN Network 2). | +| | Allowed values: range (1, 4096) | +| | | +| | default_net_name: neutron name of the defaul network that | +| | is used for access to the internet from the vTC | +| | (vNIC 1). | +| | | +| | default_subnet_name: subnet name for vNIC1 | +| | (information available through Neutron). | +| | | +| | vlan_net_1_name: Neutron Name for VLAN Network 1 | +| | (information available through Neutron). | +| | | +| | vlan_subnet_1_name: Subnet Neutron name for VLAN Network 1 | +| | (information available through Neutron). | +| | | +| | vlan_net_2_name: Neutron Name for VLAN Network 2 | +| | (information available through Neutron). | +| | | +| | vlan_subnet_2_name: Subnet Neutron name for VLAN Network 2 | +| | (information available through Neutron). | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|test tool | DPDK pktgen | +| | | +| | DPDK Pktgen is not part of a Linux distribution, | +| | hence it needs to be installed by the user. | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|references | DPDKpktgen_ | +| | | +| | ETSI-NFV-TST001 | +| | | +| | rfc2544_ | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|applicability | Test can be configured with different flavors, vNIC type | +| | and packet sizes. Default values exist as specified above. | +| | The vNIC type and flavor MUST be specified by the user. | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|pre-test | The vTC has been successfully instantiated and configured. | +| | The user has correctly assigned the values to the deployment | +| | configuration parameters. | +| | | +| | - Multicast traffic MUST be enabled on the network. | +| | The Data network switches need to be configured in | +| | order to manage multicast traffic. | +| | - In the case of SR-IOV vNICs use, SR-IOV compatible NICs | +| | must be used on the compute node. | +| | - Yarsdtick needs to be installed on a host connected to the | +| | data network and the host must have 2 DPDK-compatible | +| | NICs. Proper configuration of DPDK and DPDK pktgen is | +| | required before to run the test case. | +| | (For further instructions please refer to the ApexLake | +| | documentation). | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|test sequence | Description and expected results | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|step 1 | The noisy neighbours are deployed as required by the user. | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|step 2 | The vTC is deployed, according to the configuration required | +| | by the user | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|step 3 | The vTC is correctly deployed and configured as necessary. | +| | The initialization script has been correctly executed and | +| | the vTC is ready to receive and process the traffic. | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|step 4 | Test case is executed with the parameters specified by the | +| | user: | +| | - vTC flavor | +| | - vNIC type | +| | - packet size | +| | The traffic is sent to the vTC using the maximum available | +| | traffic rate | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|step 5 | The vTC instance forwards all the packets back to the | +| | packet generator for 60 seconds, as specified by RFC 2544. | +| | | +| | Steps 4 and 5 are executed different times with different | +| | with different traffic rates, in order to find the maximum | +| | supported traffic rate, accoring to the current definition | +| | of throughput in RFC 2544. | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|test verdict | The result of the test is a number between 0 and 100 which | +| | represents the throughput in terms of percentage of the | +| | available pktgen NIC bandwidth. | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ |