[dts] [PATCH] test_plan: add hotplug_test_plan

[Qiu, Michael]

On 2/10/2015 11:24 AM, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On 2015/02/09 22:13, Qiu, Michael wrote:
>> [+cc] Bernard
>>
>> Hi, Bernard and Tetsuya
>>
>> Would you have time to review this test plan?
>> Your comments are very important.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>> On 2/2/2015 4:47 PM, Qiu, Michael wrote:

[...]

>> +
>> +Prerequisites
>> +-------------
>> +Assume DPDK managerd at least one device for physical or none for virtual.
> "managerd" may be typo.
>
>>> +This feature only supports igb_uio now, for uio_pci_generic is
>>> +on the way, will test it after enabled.
>>> +
>>> +To run the testpmd application in linuxapp environment with 4 lcores,
>>> +4 channels with other default parameters in interactive mode.
>>> +
>>> +        $ ./testpmd -c 0xf -n 4 -- -i
>>> +
>>> +Test ENV:
>>> +
>>> +All test case can be run in 32bit and 64bit platform.
>>> +
>>> +All os can be support, like fedora, ubuntu, rhel, suse, but freebsd will
>>> +not include as hotplug has no plan to support that platform
>>> +
>>> +All kernel version(start from 2.6) can be support, for vfio need kernel
>>> +        version greater than 3.6.
>>> +
>>> +Virtulization support: KVM/VMware/Xen, container is in the roadmap
> "Virtulization" may be typo.
>
>>> +
>>> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> +Test Case 1: port dettach & attach for physical devices with igb_uio
>>> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> +1. run "port attach 0000:02:00.0",
>>> +   assume the physical devices is BDF is 0000:02:00.0
> Above sentence may be typo.

[...]

> Usually before submitting hotplug patches, I test almost same as above,
> and additionally below cases.
>
> ---------------------------
> Test Re-attach
> ---------------------------
>   - testpmd> attach
>  - testpmd> port start
>  - testpmd> start
>  - testpmd> stop
>  - testpmd> port stop
>  - testpmd> port close
>  - testpmd> port detach
>  - testpmd> port attach
>  - testpmd> port start
>  - testpmd> start
>  - testpmd> stop
>   (To check if re-attached port works fine.)

This will be added for every test case

> ---------------------------
> start testpmd with "--vdev" option, and detach.
> ---------------------------
>
>   - ./testpmd -c 0xf -n 4 --vdev "eth_pcap0,iface=<interface>" -- -i
>  - testpmd> start
>  - testpmd> stop
>  - testpmd> port stop
>  - testpmd> port close
>  - testpmd> port detach
>    (To make sure if we can detach the port)
>
> ---------------------------
> start testpmd with an attached physical NIC port, and detach.
> ---------------------------
>   - ./dpdk_nic_bind -b igb_uio <pci address>
>  - ./testpmd -c 0xf -n 4 -- -i
>  - testpmd> start
>  - testpmd> stop
>  - testpmd> port stop
>  - testpmd> port close
>  - testpmd> port detach
>    (To make sure if we can detach the port)

I will add both.

Thanks,
Michael
> How about adding such cases?
>
> Thanks,
> Tetsuya
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