[dts] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Test Suite 1.0 Release]

[Qiu, Michael]

On 1/8/2015 4:29 PM, Liu, Yong wrote:
> Kexin, thanks for your question. Please see my comments below.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kexin Zhang [mailto:kzhang at redhat.com]
>> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 4:51 PM
>> To: Cao, Waterman; dts at dpdk.org; Liu, Yong
>> Cc: Rashid Khan
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-announce] DPDK Test Suite 1.0 Release]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please see question below.
>>
>>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>>>> From: "Flavio Leitner" <fbl at redhat.com>
>>>> Subject: FYI [dpdk-announce] DPDK Test Suite 1.0 Release]
>>>>
>>>> ----- Forwarded message from "Cao, Waterman"
>> <waterman.cao at intel.com> -----
>>>> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:44:28 +0000
>>>> From: "Cao, Waterman" <waterman.cao at intel.com>
>>>> To: "dev at dpdk.org" <dev at dpdk.org>, "announce at dpdk.org"
>> <announce at dpdk.org>,
>>>> "dts at dpdk.org" <dts at dpdk.org>
>>>> Cc: "Liu, Yong" <yong.liu at intel.com>
>>>> Subject: [dpdk-announce] DPDK Test Suite 1.0 Release
>>>> List-Id: DPDK release announcements <announce.dpdk.org>
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>>>>
>>>> DPDK Test Suite 1.0 Release Announcement
>>>>
>>>> We are very pleased to announce that DPDK Test Suite 1.0 (DTS) is
>> released
>>>> by intel now. DTS is an automation test tool for DPDK software, a python-
>> base
>>>> library. It can run on remote tester machine, and communicate/manage
>> test
>>>> device
>>>> by SSH connection. This tool also supports different kinds of traffic
>>>> generators,
>>>> including DPDK-based PacketGen, third-party professional tester
>>>> equipment(IXIA).
>> Does it support xena[1] traffic generator?
>>
>> And what is DPDK-based PacketGen?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Kexin
>>
> DTS now only support IXIA equipment for we only have this kind of hardware in our hand. 

Actually, as it is an open source project, any patch sets to support
xena[1] traffic generator are welcome :)

Thanks,
Michael
> DPDK-based PacketGen is one software solution of generate line rate Ethernet offload for performance validation.
> You can find the software from https://github.com/pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK.
> For there's performance limitation on pktgen, we only take its result as reference.
>
>>>> DTS is composes of one set of test cases and automation test framework.
>> Since
>>>> Based on DTS, DPDK developers and testers can build their test cases and
>>>> verify their patches with these function test. It only requires less effort
>>>> to maintain test cases once merged into DTS. Since DPDK Test Suite is an
>> open
>>>> source test tool, Everyone can utilize DTS to measure performance and
>>>> functionality for features.
>>>>
>>>> In the future, we will continue to upgrade DPDK Test Suite to support
>> DPDK
>>>> software package based on DPDK release timeline, and provide stable
>> version
>>>> for each DPDK formal release. Currently, DPDK Test Suite 1.0 will support
>>>> the latest DPDK release version 1.8.
>>>>
>>>> You can download latest DPDK test suite from the following link:
>>>> http://dpdk.org/git/tools/dts
>>>>
>>>> In addition, one mailing list was created as dts at dpdk.org. This mailing list
>>>> is
>>>> used to post regression test report for DPDK software, answer questions
>>>> about DTS, and receive patches for DPDK Test Suite. Also you can discuss
>>>> issues and seek for validate solution of DPDK features with this mailing
>>>> list.
>>>> Marvin Liu(Yong.liu at intel.com)from Intel will maintain DPDK Test Suite
>> code,
>>>> and responsible for code merge. We are very welcome that other
>> volunteers who
>>>> interested in DPDK Validation can join in us to maintain this tool.
>>>>
>>>> Since DPDK Test Suite includes some generic test suites, plans and one
>> test
>>>> framework. Please see features list as the followings.
>>>>
>>>> DTS features:
>>>> - Support SSH connection and manager tester, test device and IXIA
>> generator
>>>> - Automatically discover network topology
>>>> - Automatically deploy DPDK on DUT (Device under Test) which installed
>>>>   Fedora18/20, Ubuntu12/14, FreeBSD 10, etc.
>>>> - Support Wind River DPDK-based software traffic generators and IXIA
>>>>   traffic generator
>>>> - Able to transmit, capture and analyze packets by Scapy
>>>> - Provide solution to develop user-defined test suite and test plan
>>>> - Provide customized configuration file
>>>> - Export validation results as RST format and excel format
>>>> - Support logging system to track automation execution.
>>>>
>>>> Example Test Suites:
>>>> - Blacklist/Whitelist: EAL whitelist/blacklist feature
>>>> - Command line       : RTE command line interface
>>>> - Multi process      : DPDK share information between process
>>>> - Timer              : EAL timer feature
>>>> - Testpmd            : Poll Mode driver packet integrity, packet checksum,
>>>>                        performance benchmark
>>>> - L2fwd              : layer-2 (L2) forwarding application
>>>> - L3fwd              : Layer-3 Forwarding application
>>>> - Jumbo Frame        : Poll Mode Drivers for jumbo frames feature
>>>> - Ieee1588           : IEEE1588 Precise Time Protocol offload feature
>>>> - Checksum offload   : RX/TX L3/L4 checksum offload feature
>>>> - Flow direction     : NIC flow director feature
>>>> - VLAN               : NIC VLAN offload feature
>>>> - Link flowctrl      : NIC link flow control feature
>>>> - Link bonding       : Poll mode driver link bonding feature
>>>> - IP fragment        : IPv4 and IPV6 fragmentation feature
>>>> - Packet framework   : IP pipeline by DPDK packet framework feature
>>>>
>>>> Finally, DTS is open to everyone. Everyone is welcomed to use this tool,
>>>> submit test cases and share knowledge with community.
>>>> We hope that DTS can help to improve quality of open source patch and
>>>> leverage effort with every members in community.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards
>>>>
>>>> Intel DPDK Validation Team
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>>>>
>>>>
>> [1] http://www.xenanetworks.com/xenaweb-live-demo/
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