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David Gibson
ca0c33ae5b Tweak dhclient arguments for readability
A number of tests and examples use dhclient in both IPv4 and IPv6 modes.
We use "dhclient -6" for IPv6, but usually just "dhclient" for IPv4.  Add
an explicit "-4" argument to make it more clear and explicit.

In addition, when dhclient is run from within pasta it usually won't be
"real" root, and so will not have access to write the default global pid
file.  This results in a mostly harmless but irritating error:
    Can't create /var/run/dhclient.pid: Permission denied
We can avoid that by using the --no-pid flag to dhclient.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2022-06-15 09:38:10 +02:00
David Gibson
2320ac3349 Don't abbreviate ip(8) arguments in examples and tests
ip(8)'s ability to take abbreviated arguments (e.g. "li sh" instead of
"link show") is very handy when using it interactively, but it doesn't make
for very readable scripts and examples when shown that way.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2022-06-15 09:38:10 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
0ebaac9747 test/perf: Work-around for virtio_net hang before long streams from guest
I didn't have time to investigate the root cause for the virtio_net
TX hang yet. Add a quick work-around for the moment being.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-03-29 15:35:38 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
edb64ecbad test/perf/passt_udp: Drop threshold for 256B test
That test fails sometimes, it looks like iperf3 is still sending
initial messages that are too big. I'll need to figure out why,
but given that 256 bytes is not really an expected MTU, drop the
thresholds to zero for the moment being.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-02-21 13:41:13 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
b8307a0a88 perf/passt_udp: Lower failure throughput thresholds with big MTUs
The throughput results in this test look quite variable, slightly
lower figures look reasonable anyway.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-01-26 16:30:59 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
c3f8e4d2cd test/perf: Actually load passt enough to test UDP performance
With recent improvements, we're not CPU-bound at all while testing
UDP performance. Give the VM more memory and CPUs, forward two
additional ports, start up to four threads in parallel, and give
single iperf3 threads higher bandwidth targets.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-21 04:54:05 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
6257a2752e test/perf: Try sourcing maximum scaling frequency from cpufreq
On most recent CPUs, that's a better indication of all-core turbo
frequency, or non-turbo frequency, than /proc/cpuinfo.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-21 01:24:22 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
9df5027129 perf/passt_udp: Don't overshoot UDP bandwidth excessively on larger MTUs
...performance with 64KiB MTUs might look worse than with 9000bytes
on some configurations.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-19 09:30:42 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
e8ac8a3b7c test/perf: Use CPU frequency from /proc/cpuinfo instead of cpupower(1)
Get it to work also in nested virtualisation environments.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-19 09:25:29 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
061519b562 test: Add CI/demo scripts
Not really quick, definitely dirty.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 15:10:35 +02:00