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(c) OPNFV, Intel Corporation and others. + +************************************* +Yardstick Test Case Description TC021 +************************************* + +.. _DPDKpktgen: https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/ +.. _rfc2544: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt + ++-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +|Network Performance | +| | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|test case id | OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC0021_Virtual Traffic Classifier | +| | Instantiation Test in Presence of Noisy Neighbours | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|metric | Failure | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|test purpose | To verify that a newly instantiated vTC is 'alive' and | +| | functional and its instantiation is correctly supported by | +| | the infrastructure in the presence of noisy neighbours. | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|configuration | file: opnfv_yardstick_tc021.yaml | +| | | +| | vnic_type: type of VNIC to be used. | +| | Allowed values are: | +| | - normal: for default OvS port configuration | +| | - direct: for SR-IOV port configuration | +| | Default value: None | +| | | +| | 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 | +| | Default value: None | +| | | +| | 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 | DPDK Pktgen: DPDK Pktgen: DPDKpktgen_ | +| | | +| | ETSI-NFV-TST001 | +| | | +| | RFC 2544: 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. | +| | Installation and configuration of smcroute is required | +| | before to run the test case. | +| | (For further instructions please refer to the ApexLake | +| | documentation). | +| | - 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 provided | +| | 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 selected parameters: | +| | - vTC flavor | +| | - vNIC type | +| | A constant rate traffic is sent to the vTC for 10 seconds. | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|step 5 | The vTC instance tags all the packets and sends them back to | +| | the packet generator for 10 seconds. | +| | | +| | The framework checks if the packet generator receives back | +| | all the packets with the correct tag from the vTC. | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ +|test verdict | The vTC is deemed to be successfully instantiated if all | +| | packets are sent back with the right tag as requested, | +| | else it is deemed DoA (Dead on arrival) | +| | | ++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+ |