Starting from iperf3 version 3.16, -P / --parallel spawns multiple
clients as separate threads, instead of multiple streams serviced by
the same thread.
So we can drop our lib/test implementation to spawn several iperf3
client and server processes and finally simplify things quite a bit.
Adjust number of threads and UDP sending bandwidth to values that seem
to be more or less matching previous throughput tests on my setup.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Tested-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Packet size can make a big difference to UDP throughput, so it makes sense
to measure it for a variety of different sizes. Currently we do this by
adjusting the MTU on the relevant interface before running iperf3.
However, the UDP packet size has no inherent connection to the MTU - it's
controlled by the sender, and the MTU just affects whether the packet will
make it through or be fragmented. The only reason adjusting the MTU works
is because iperf3 bases its default packet size on the (path) MTU.
We can test this more simply by using the -l option to the iperf3 client
to directly control the packet size, instead of adjusting the MTU.
As well as simplifying this lets us test different packet sizes for host to
ns traffic. We couldn't do that previously because we don't have
permission to change the MTU on the host.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently we start both the iperf3 server(s) and client(s) afresh each time
we want to make a bandwidth measurement. That's not really necessary as
usually a whole batch of bandwidth measurements can use the same server.
Split up the iperf3 directive into 3 directives: iperf3s to start the
server, iperf3 to make a measurement and iperf3k to kill the server, so
that we can start the server less often. This - and more importantly, the
reduced number of waits for the server to be ready - reduces runtime of the
performance tests on my laptop by about 4m (out of ~28minutes).
For now we still restart the server between IPv4 and IPv6 tests. That's
because in some cases the latency measurements we make in between use the
same ports.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Some older revisions used separate iperf3c and iperf3s test directives to
invoke the iperf3 client and server. Those were combined into a single
iperf3 directive some time ago, but a couple of places still have the old
syntax.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.
Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.
Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
These were missing as it wasn't clear, when the other tests were
introduced, if using the global address of a namespace, from the
host, should have resulted in traffic being routed via the tap
interface (as opposed to the loopback interface). We now clarified
that's actually the case.
Use same values and thresholds as the tests for loopback traffic, as
throughput figures currently indicate there isn't much difference.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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>
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>
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>
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>
