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To test log files on a tmpfs mount, we need to unshare the mount namespace, which means using a context for the passt pane is not really practical at the moment, as we can't open a shell there, so we would have to encapsulate all the commands under 'unshare -rUm', plus the "inner" pasta command, running in turn a tcp_rr server. It might be worth fixing this by e.g. detecting we are trying to spawn an interactive shell and adding a special path in the context setup with some form of stdin redirection -- I'm not sure it's doable though. For this reason, add a new layout, using a context only for the host pane, while keeping the old command dispatch mechanism for the passt pane. We also need a new setup function that doesn't start pasta: we want to start and restart it with different options. Further, we need a 'pint' directive, to send an interrupt to the passt pane: add that in lib/test. All the tests before the one involving tmpfs and a detached mount namespace were also tested with the context mechanism. To make an eventual conversion easier, pass tcp_crr directly as a command on pasta's command line where feasible. While at it, fix the comment to the teardown_pasta() function. The new test set can be semi-conveniently run as: ./run pasta_options/log_to_file and it checks basic log creation, size of the log file after flooding it with debug entries, rotations, and basic consistency after rotations, on both an existing filesystem and a tmpfs, chosen as it doesn't support collapsing data ranges via fallocate(), hence triggering the fall-back mechanism for logging rotation. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> |
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| pasta | ||
| pasta_options | ||
| perf | ||
| two_guests | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| ci | ||
| find-arm64-firmware.sh | ||
| Makefile | ||
| nsholder.c | ||
| passt.mbuto | ||
| prepare-distro-img.sh | ||
| README.md | ||
| run | ||
| run_demo | ||
| valgrind.supp | ||
Scope
This directory contains test cases for passt and pasta and a simple POSIX shell-based framework to define them, and run them as a suite.
These tests can be run as part of a continuous integration workflow, and are also used to provide short usage demos, with video recording, for passt and pasta basic use cases.
Run
Dependencies
Packages
The tests require some package dependencies commonly available in Linux distributions. If some packages are not available, the test groups that need them will be selectively skipped.
This is a non-exhaustive list of packages that might not commonly be installed on a system, i.e. common utilities such as a shell are not included here.
Example for Debian, and possibly most Debian-based distributions:
build-essential git jq strace iperf3 qemu-system-x86 tmux sipcalc bc
clang-tidy cppcheck isc-dhcp-common psmisc linux-cpupower socat
netcat-openbsd fakeroot lz4 lm-sensors qemu-system-arm qemu-system-ppc
qemu-system-misc qemu-system-x86 valgrind
Other tools
Test measuring request-response and connect-request-response latencies use
neper, which is not commonly packaged by distributions and needs to be built
and installed manually:
git clone https://github.com/google/neper
cd neper; make
cp tcp_crr tcp_rr udp_rr /usr/local/bin
Virtual machine images are built during test executions using mbuto, the shell script is sourced via git as needed, so there's no need to actually install it.
Kernel parameters
Performance tests use iperf3 with rather large TCP receiving and sending windows, to decrease the likelihood of iperf3 itself becoming the bottleneck. These values need to be allowed by the kernel of the host running the tests. Example for /etc/sysctl.conf:
net.core.rmem_max = 134217728 net.core.wmem_max = 134217728
Further, the passt demo uses perf(1), relying on hardware events for performance counters, to display syscall overhead. The kernel needs to allow unprivileged users to access these events. Suggested entry for /etc/sysctl.conf:
kernel.perf_event_paranoid = -1
Special requirements for continuous integration and demo modes
Running the test suite as continuous integration or demo modes will record the terminal with the steps being executed, using asciinema(1), and create binary packages.
The following additional packages are commonly needed:
alien asciinema linux-perf tshark
Regular test
Just issue:
./run
from the test directory. Elevated privileges are not needed. Environment
variable settings: DEBUG=1 enables debugging messages, TRACE=1 enables tracing
(further debugging messages), PCAP=1 enables packet captures. Example:
PCAP=1 TRACE=1 ./run
Running selected tests
Rudimentary support to run a list of selected tests, without support for dependencies, is available. Tests need to have a setup function corresponding to their path. For example:
./run passt/ndp passt/dhcp pasta/ndp
will call the 'passt' setup function (from lib/setup), run the two corresponding tests, call the 'passt' teardown function, the 'pasta' setup, run the pasta/ndp test, and finally tear down the 'pasta' setup.
Note that requirements on steps implemented by related tests are not handled. For example, if the 'passt/tcp' needs guest connectivity set up by the 'passt/ndp' and 'passt/dhcp' tests, those need to be listed explicitly.
Continuous integration
Issuing:
./ci
will run the whole test suite while recording the execution, and it will also build JavaScript fragments used on http://passt.top/ for performance data tables and links to specific offsets in the captures.
Demo mode
Issuing:
./demo
will run the demo cases under demo, with terminal captures as well.
Framework
The implementation of the testing framework is under lib, and it provides
facilities for terminal and tmux session management, interpretation of test
directives, video recording, and suchlike. Test cases are organised in the
remaining directories.
Test cases can be implemented as POSIX shell scripts, or as a set of directives,
which are not formally documented here, but should be clear enough from the
existing cases. The entry point for interpretation of test directives is
implemented in lib/test.