cli: Modify configuration via CLI 93/23893/6
authorMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:37:26 +0000 (12:37 +0100)
committerMartin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>
Wed, 9 Nov 2016 12:20:37 +0000 (12:20 +0000)
commiteabc66eef336b3c47c366027b205d26db10a3c21
treebd7363a3b1afd232facdba59c7b4f32915cb1461
parent9c13028cf9b29da86e5b12c5d3b8c4d6bd858545
cli: Modify configuration via CLI

In the past, only a few configuration parameters could be
modified via --test-params CLI argument and it was not easy
to find out their complete list.
This patch adds support for generic modification of any
configuration parameter via CLI argument --test-params
or by "Parameters" section of testcase definition.
Thus it is possible to customize a vsperf configuration
environment per testcase or for each vsperf execution.
Old CLI parameters duration, pkt_sizes, rfc2544_tests
and rfc2889_trials were renamed to TRAFFICGEN_DURATION,
TRAFFICGEN_PKT_SIZES, TRAFFICGEN_RFC2544_TESTS and
TRAFFICGEN_RFC2889_TRIALS to be consistent with
other configuration parameters.

JIRA: VSPERF-375

Change-Id: I50a1f4ff7250d754aa8af0295a9c7c1be8151175
Signed-off-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Al Morton <acmorton@att.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Bill Michalowski <bmichalo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Antonio Fischetti <antonio.fischetti@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: <sridhar.rao@spirent.com>
23 files changed:
ci/build-vsperf.sh
conf/01_testcases.conf
conf/03_traffic.conf
conf/04_vnf.conf
conf/10_custom.conf
conf/__init__.py
conf/integration/01_testcases.conf
conf/integration/03_traffic.conf
core/traffic_controller.py
core/traffic_controller_rfc2544.py
core/traffic_controller_rfc2889.py
docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst
docs/design/vswitchperf_design.rst
docs/requirements/vswitchperf_ltp.rst
docs/userguide/integration.rst
docs/userguide/teststeps.rst
docs/userguide/testusage.rst
testcases/testcase.py
tools/pkt_gen/ixnet/ixnet.py
vnfs/qemu/qemu.py
vnfs/qemu/qemu_dpdk_vhost_user.py
vsperf
vswitches/ovs_dpdk_vhost.py