docs/release/NEWS.rst

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   3 .. (c) OPNFV, Intel Corporation, AT&T and others.
   4
   5 OPNFV Colorado Release
   6 =========================
   7 * Support for OVS version 2.5 + DPDK 2.2.
   8 * Support for Xena traffic generator.
   9 * Support for Integration tests for OVS with DPDK including:
  10   * Physical ports.
  11   * Virtual ports (vhost user and vhost cuse).
  12   * Flow addition and removal tests.
  13   * Overlay (VXLAN, GRE and NVGRE) encapsulation and decapsulation tests.
  14 * Supporting configuration of OVS with DPDK through the OVS DB as well as the
  15   legacy commandline arguments.
  16 * Support for VM loopback (SR-IOV) benchmarking.
  17 * Support for platform baseline benchmarking without a vswitch using testpmd.
  18 * Support for Spirent Test Center REST APIs.
  19
  20 OPNFV Brahmaputra Release
  21 =========================
  22 Supports both OVS and OVS with DPDK.
  23
  24 Available tests:
  25
  26 * phy2phy_tput:     LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.PacketLossRatio
  27 * back2back:        LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.BackToBackFrames
  28 * phy2phy_tput_mod_vlan:LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.PacketLossRatioFrameModification
  29 * phy2phy_cont:     Phy2Phy Continuous Stream
  30 * pvp_cont:         PVP Continuous Stream
  31 * pvvp_cont:        PVVP Continuous Stream
  32 * phy2phy_scalability:LTD.Scalability.RFC2544.0PacketLoss
  33 * pvp_tput:         LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.PacketLossRatio
  34 * pvp_back2back:    LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.BackToBackFrames
  35 * pvvp_tput:        LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.PacketLossRatio
  36 * pvvp_back2back:   LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.BackToBackFrames
  37 * phy2phy_cpu_load: LTD.CPU.RFC2544.0PacketLoss
  38 * phy2phy_mem_load: LTD.Memory.RFC2544.0PacketLoss
  39
  40 Supported deployment scenarios:
  41
  42 * Physical port -> vSwitch -> Physical port.
  43 * Physical port -> vSwitch -> VNF -> vSwitch -> Physical port.
  44 * Physical port -> vSwitch -> VNF -> vSwitch -> VNF -> vSwitch -> Physical port.
  45
  46 Loopback applications in the Guest can be:
  47
  48 * DPDK testpmd.
  49 * Linux Bridge.
  50 * l2fwd Kernel Module.
  51
  52 Supported traffic generators:
  53
  54 * Ixia: IxOS and IxNet.
  55 * Spirent.
  56 * Dummy.
  57
  58 Release Data
  59 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
  60
  61 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
  62 | **Project**                          | vswitchperf                          |
  63 |                                      |                                      |
  64 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
  65 | **Repo/tag**                         | brahmaputra.1.0                      |
  66 |                                      |                                      |
  67 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
  68 | **Release designation**              | Brahmaputra base release             |
  69 |                                      |                                      |
  70 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
  71 | **Release date**                     | February 26 2016                     |
  72 |                                      |                                      |
  73 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
  74 | **Purpose of the delivery**          | Brahmaputra base release             |
  75 |                                      |                                      |
  76 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
  77
  78 November 2015
  79 ==============
  80
  81 - Support of opnfv_test_dashboard
  82
  83 October 2015
  84 ==============
  85
  86 - Support of PVP and PVVP deployment scenarios using Vanilla OVS
  87
  88 September 2015
  89 ==============
  90
  91 - Implementation of system statistics based upon pidstat command line tool.
  92 - Support of PVVP deployment scenario using bhost-cuse and vhost user access
  93   methods
  94
  95 August 2015
  96 ===========
  97
  98 - Backport and enhancement of reporting
  99 - PVP deployment scenario testing using vhost-cuse as guest access method
 100 - Implementation of LTD.Scalability.RFC2544.0PacketLoss testcase
 101 - Support for background load generation with command line tools like stress
 102   and stress-ng
 103
 104 July 2015
 105 =========
 106
 107 - PVP deployment scenario testing using vhost-user as guest access method
 108   - Verified on CentOS7 and Fedora 20
 109   - Requires QEMU 2.2.0 and DPDK 2.0
 110
 111 May 2015
 112 ========
 113
 114 This is the initial release of a re-designed version of the software
 115 based on community feedback. This initial release supports only the
 116 Phy2Phy deployment scenario and the
 117 LTD.Throughput.RFC2544.PacketLossRatio test - both described in the
 118 OPNFV vswitchperf 'CHARACTERIZE VSWITCH PERFORMANCE FOR TELCO NFV USE
 119 CASES LEVEL TEST DESIGN'. The intention is that more test cases will
 120 follow once the community has digested the initial release.
 121
 122 -  Performance testing with continuous stream
 123 -  Vanilla OVS support added.
 124
 125    -  Support for non-DPDK OVS build.
 126    -  Build and installation support through Makefile will be added via
 127       next patch(Currently it is possible to manually build ovs and
 128       setting it in vsperf configuration files).
 129    -  PvP scenario is not yet implemented.
 130
 131 -  CentOS7 support
 132 -  Verified on CentOS7
 133 -  Install & Quickstart documentation
 134
 135 -  Better support for mixing tests types with Deployment Scenarios
 136 -  Re-work based on community feedback of TOIT
 137 -  Framework support for other vSwitches
 138 -  Framework support for non-Ixia traffic generators
 139 -  Framework support for different VNFs
 140 -  Python3
 141 -  Support for biDirectional functionality for ixnet interface
 142
 143 Missing
 144 =======
 145
 146 -  xmlunit output is currently disabled
 147