Traffic stream with 100 000 unique flows (100 IPs/users x 1000 UDP ports) in
one direction.
+.. topic:: HOSTS_1024
+
+ Stateless or stateful traffic stream with 1024 client source IP4 addresses,
+ usually with 63 flow differing in source port number. Could be UDP or TCP.
+ If NAT is used, the clients are inside. Outside IP range can differ.
+
+.. topic:: HOSTS_4096
+
+ Stateless or stateful traffic stream with 4096 client source IP4 addresses,
+ usually with 63 flow differing in source port number. Could be UDP or TCP.
+ If NAT is used, the clients are inside. Outside IP range can differ.
+
+.. topic:: HOSTS_16384
+
+ Stateless or stateful traffic stream with 16384 client source IP4 addresses,
+ usually with 63 flow differing in source port number. Could be UDP or TCP.
+ If NAT is used, the clients are inside. Outside IP range can differ.
+
+.. topic:: HOSTS_65536
+
+ Stateless or stateful traffic stream with 65536 client source IP4 addresses,
+ usually with 63 flow differing in source port number. Could be UDP or TCP.
+ If NAT is used, the clients are inside. Outside IP range can differ.
+
+.. topic:: HOSTS_262144
+
+ Stateless or stateful traffic stream with 262144 client source IP4 addresses
+ usually with 63 flow differing in source port number. Could be UDP or TCP.
+ If NAT is used, the clients are inside. Outside IP range can differ.
+
Test Category Tags
------------------
.. topic:: BASE
Baseline test cases, no encapsulation, no feature(s) configured in tests.
+ No scaling whatsoever, beyond minimum needed for RSS.
.. topic:: IP4BASE
IPv4 baseline test cases, no encapsulation, no feature(s) configured in
- tests.
+ tests. Minimal number of routes. Other quantities may be scaled.
.. topic:: IP6BASE
.. topic:: SCALE
- Scale test cases.
+ Scale test cases. Other tags specify which quantities are scaled.
+ Also applies if scaling is set on TG only (e.g. DUT works as IP4BASE).
.. topic:: ENCAP
At least one feature is configured in test cases. Use also feature tag(s).
-.. topic:: TLDK
+.. topic:: UDP
- Functional test cases for TLDK.
+ Tests which use any kind of UDP traffic (STL or ASTF profile).
-.. topic:: DMM
+.. topic:: TCP
- Functional test cases for DMM.
+ Tests which use any kind of TCP traffic (STL or ASTF profile).
-.. topic:: TCP
+..
+ TODO: Should we define tags STL and ASTF?
+
+.. topic:: UDP_UDIR
- Tests which use TCP.
+ Tests which use unidirectional UDP traffic (STL profile only).
+
+.. topic:: UDP_BIDIR
+
+ Tests which use bidirectional UDP traffic (STL profile only).
+
+.. topic:: UDP_CPS
+
+ Tests which measure connections per second on minimal UDP pseudoconnections.
+ This implies ASTF traffic profile is used.
+ This tag selects specific output processing in PAL.
.. topic:: TCP_CPS
- Performance tests which measure connections per second using http requests.
+ Tests which measure connections per second on empty TCP connections.
+ This implies ASTF traffic profile is used.
+ This tag selects specific output processing in PAL.
-.. topic:: TCP_RPS
+.. topic:: UDP_PPS
- Performance tests which measure requests per second using http requests.
+ Tests which measure packets per second on lightweight UDP transactions.
+ This implies ASTF traffic profile is used.
+ This tag selects specific output processing in PAL.
+
+.. topic:: TCP_PPS
+
+ Tests which measure packets per second on lightweight TCP transactions.
+ This implies ASTF traffic profile is used.
+ This tag selects specific output processing in PAL.
.. topic:: HTTP
- Tests which use HTTP.
+ Tests which use traffic formed of valid HTTP requests (and responses).
+
+..
+ TODO: Add HTTP tag to the current hoststack tests.
+ TODO: Document other tags already used by hoststack tests.
.. topic:: NF_DENSITY
VPP IPv6 routed forwarding.
+.. topic:: LOADBALANCER_MAGLEV
+
+ VPP Load balancer maglev mode.
+
+.. topic:: LOADBALANCER_L3DSR
+
+ VPP Load balancer l3dsr mode.
+
+.. topic:: LOADBALANCER_NAT4
+
+ VPP Load balancer nat4 mode.
+
Underlay Tags
-------------
All test cases which uses VHOST.
-.. topic:: VHOST_256
+.. topic:: VHOST_1024
- All test cases which uses VHOST with qemu queue size set to 256.
+ All test cases which uses VHOST DPDK driver with qemu queue size set
+ to 1024.
-.. topic:: VHOST_1024
+.. topic:: VIRTIO
+
+ All test cases which uses VIRTIO native VPP driver.
- All test cases which uses VHOST with qemu queue size set to 1024.
+.. topic:: VIRTIO_1024
+
+ All test cases which uses VIRTIO native VPP driver with qemu queue size set
+ to 1024.
.. topic:: CFS_OPT
devices. In essence, today this driver can be used only with Intel
XL710 / X710 / XXV710 adapters.
+.. topic:: DRV_VFIO_PCI
+
+ All test cases which uses vfio-pci device driver. It supports variety of NIC
+ adapters.
+
+.. topic:: DRV_RDMA_CORE
+
+ All test cases which uses rdma-core device driver. It supports Mellanox
+ NIC adapters.
+
+.. topic:: RXQ_SIZE_{n}
+
+ All test cases which RXQ size (RX descriptors) are set to {n}. Default is 0,
+ which means VPP (API) default.
+
+.. topic:: TXQ_SIZE_{n}
+
+ All test cases which TXQ size (TX descriptors) are set to {n}. Default is 0,
+ which means VPP (API) default.
+
Feature Tags
------------
Container Orchestration Tags
----------------------------
-.. topic:: K8S
-
- All test cases which use Kubernetes for orchestration.
-
-.. topic:: SFC_CONTROLLER
-
- All test cases which use ligato/sfc_controller for driving configuration
- of vpp inside container.
-
-.. topic:: VPP_AGENT
-
- All test cases which use Golang implementation of a control/management plane
- for VPP
-
.. topic:: 1VSWITCH
VPP running in Docker container acting as VSWITCH.
8 worker threads each pinned to a separate logical core within 4 dedicated
physical cores. 4 receive queues per interface. Main thread pinned to core
1.
-
-Honeycomb Tags
---------------
-
-.. topic:: HC_FUNC
-
- Honeycomb functional test cases.
-
-.. topic:: HC_NSH
-
- Honeycomb NSH test cases.
-
-.. topic:: HC_PERSIST
-
- Honeycomb persistence test cases.
-
-.. topic:: HC_REST_ONLY
-
- (Exclusion tag) Honeycomb test cases that cannot be run in Netconf mode
- using ODL client for Restfconf -> Netconf translation.