It appears that if we run throughput tests with one-second periodic
reports, the sending side of the vhost channel used for SSH-based
command dispatch occasionally stops working altogether. I haven't
investigated this further, all I see is that output is truncated
at some point, and doesn't resume.
If we use gzip compression (ssh -C) this happens less frequently,
but it still happens, seemingly indicating the issue is probably
related to vhost itself.
Disable periodic reports in iperf3 clients. The -i options were
actually redundant, so remove them from both test files as well as
from test_iperf3().
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
It looks like the workaround for the virtio_net TX hang issue is
working less reliably with the new command dispatch mechanism, I'm
not sure why. Switch to 10 seconds, at least for the moment.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Otherwise, we're depending on having /sbin in $PATH. For some reason
I didn't completely grasp, with the new command dispatch mechanism
that's not the case anymore, even if I have /sbin in $PATH in the
parent shell.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
test_iperf3() is a pretty inscrutable mess of nested background processes.
It has a number of ugly sleeps needed to wait for things to complete.
Rewrite it to be cleaner:
* Use the construct (a & b & wait) to run 'a' and 'b' in parallel, but
then wait for them both to complete before continuing
* This allows us to wait for both the server and client to finish, rather
than sleeping
* Use jq to do all the math we need to get the final result, rather than
jq followed by some complicated 'bc' mangling
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Currently all the throughput tests are run for 30s. This is reflected in
both the actual parameters given to the iperf commands, but also in the
matching sleeps in test_iperf3.
Allow this to be adjusted more easily with a new parameter to test_iperf3.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[sbrivio: Reflect new parameter in comment to test_iperf3()]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
These two commands in the DSL to run an iperf client and server are always
used together, and some of the parameters must match between them. The
iperf3s must also be run more or less immediately after iperf3c, since
iperf3c will run a client in the background after a sleep and requires a
server to be running before it will work.
A bunch of things can be made cleaner if we make a single DSL command that
runs both sides of the test. For now make the combined command work
exactly like the two commands together did, warts and all.
This does lose the ability for the DSL scripts to give additional options
to the iperf3 server, but we weren't using that anyway.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Currently test/run uses wildcards to run all of the tests in a directory.
However, that wildcard list is filtered down by the "onlyfor" directives
in the test files... usually to a single file.
Therefore, just explicitly list the files we *really* want to run for this
test mode. This makes it easier to see at the top level what tests will
be executed, and to change that list temporarily while debugging specific
failures.
This means the "onlyfor" directive no longer has any purpose, and we can
remove it. "onlyfor" was also the only used of the $MODE variable, so we
can remove that too.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
David reports that dhclient-script(8) on Fedora needs a number of
binaries that are not included in PROGS of the current mbuto profile,
and we would also need to include hostnamectl(1) there, which will
fail without a systemd init.
Embed a minimal script for dhclient(8) in the profile itself, written
to /sbin/dhclient-script at boot, to just check what we need to check
out of DHCP and DHCPv6 functionality.
While at it, drop busybox and logger from PROGS, as we don't need them,
and add hostname(1). While DHCP option 12 isn't supported yet by the
DHCP implementation in passt, we should probably add it soon.
Note: owing to the simplicity of this script, we now need to bring up
the interface before starting dhclient: add this in test scripts where
it's not the case yet.
Reported-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Suggested-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
note that we need to bring up the interface before starting dhclient
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>
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>
There are a few occurrences of this assignment, which are needed to
re-add ::1 as loopback address after the MTU has been increased
back from a value below 1280 bytes.
This one, however, is redundant, and causes an error in the
execution.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
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>
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>
With a recent 5.15 kernel, passing a huge window size to iperf3 with
lower MTUs makes iperf3 stop sending packets after a few seconds --
I haven't investigated this in detail, but the window size will be
adjusted dynamically anyway and not passing it doesn't actually
affect throughput, so simply drop the option.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
The throughput results in this test look quite variable, slightly
lower figures look reasonable anyway.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
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>
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>
