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authorVratko Polak <vrpolak@cisco.com>2020-02-03 18:51:14 +0100
committerPeter Mikus <pmikus@cisco.com>2020-02-22 11:47:04 +0000
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Report: Edit minor details in methodology docs
Change-Id: I9bbb97e635b6ef438dcb8bed3f69617bb98e9779 Signed-off-by: Vratko Polak <vrpolak@cisco.com>
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@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ TRex Traffic Generator
Usage
~~~~~
-`TRex traffic generator <https://wiki.fd.io/view/TRex>`_ is used for all
+`TRex traffic generator <https://trex-tgn.cisco.com>`_ is used for all
CSIT performance tests. TRex stateless mode is used to measure NDR and
PDR throughputs using MLRsearch and to measure maximum transer rate
in MRR tests.
-TRex is installed and run on the TG compute node. The typical procedure
-is:
+TRex is installed and run on the TG compute node. The typical procedure is:
- If the TRex is not already installed on TG, it is installed in the
suite setup phase - see `TRex installation`_.
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ is:
- TRex is started in the background mode
::
- $ sh -c 'cd <t-rex-install-dir>/scripts/ && sudo nohup ./t-rex-64 -i -c 7 --prefix $(hostname) --hdrh > /tmp/trex.log 2>&1 &' > /dev/null
+ $ sh -c 'cd <t-rex-install-dir>/scripts/ && sudo nohup ./t-rex-64 -i --prefix $(hostname) --hdrh --no-scapy-server > /tmp/trex.log 2>&1 &' > /dev/null
- There are traffic streams dynamically prepared for each test, based on traffic
profiles. The traffic is sent and the statistics obtained using
@@ -49,4 +48,4 @@ Measuring Latency
If measurement of latency is requested, two more packet streams are
created (one for each direction) with TRex flow_stats parameter set to
STLFlowLatencyStats. In that case, returned statistics will also include
-min/avg/max latency values.
+min/avg/max latency values and encoded HDRHstogram data.