Introduction

The colored blocks shows the current Features of VSPERF, the White-blocks shows the features we plan to add to VSPERF, in near future.

Significance of VSPERF

Five Main Focus Areas of VSPERF for Iruya and Beyond:

Continued Contribution to Standardization

ETSI TST 008, 009, 

IETF

GSMA

Container Networking Performance Benchmarking

Goal: Automated Setup of DUT, Comparative Study, Generate Results.

The setup requirements:

1. Single L2 Forwarding Container.
2. Two interfaces in Container for 'east' and 'west' traffic.
   1. CN solutions multiple interfaces support.
3. Two Physical Interfaces on the host to which Traffic-Generator is connected.
   1. CN solution to use these 2 physical interfaces.
   2. CN to bridge/route the traffic across physical-physical, physical-virtual, virtual-physical and virtual-virtual interfaces.

To realize the first step of "Automated Setup of DUT", there are different options:

1. CN without Kubernetes
2. CN With Kubernetes
   1. Manual
   2. kubeadm
   3. Kubespray + Kubeadm
   4. Multus/DanM
   5. Multus + ? Plugin
   6. Multus + Userspace CNI?

The DUT architecture would be:

Containerization of VSPERF and Integration with Larger Test-Automation Frameworks

Target Frameworks: Dovetail and X-Testing.

This task has two main parts: 

Part-1: Containerizing VSPERF.

Approach-1: 

Approach-2:

Part-2: Integrating VSPERF with larger Test-Automation Frameworks

Analytics

Basic Analytics

Advanced Analytics

Ease of use

Configuration Generation Tool: 

A PoC can be found here: https://github.com/opensource-tnbt/vsperfwizard 

GUI based Test management tool.

Reuse Yardstick GUI?

Dashboard.

Custom Dashboard to showcase the status of VSPERF Ongoing Test - Topology, Traffic, etc.

Other Works:

1. New vSwitches support - Tungsten vRouter
2. Kernel Fastpaths (ex: AF_XDP)