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diff --git a/docs/report/introduction/methodology_hoststack_testing/methodology_vsap_ab_with_nginx.rst b/docs/report/introduction/methodology_hoststack_testing/methodology_vsap_ab_with_nginx.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 6acfff1778..0000000000 --- a/docs/report/introduction/methodology_hoststack_testing/methodology_vsap_ab_with_nginx.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -VSAP ab with nginx -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -`VSAP (VPP Stack Acceleration Project) <https://wiki.fd.io/view/VSAP>`_ -aims to establish an industry user space application ecosystem based on -the VPP hoststack. As a pre-requisite to adapting open source applications -using VPP Communications Library to accelerate performance, the VSAP team -has introduced baseline tests utilizing the LD_PRELOAD mechanism to capture -baseline performance data. - -`AB (Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool) <https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html>`_ -is used for measuring the maximum connections-per-second and requests-per-second. - -`NGINX <https://www.nginx.com/>`_ is a popular open source HTTP server -application. Because NGINX utilizes the POSIX socket interface APIs, the test -configuration uses the LD_PRELOAD mechanism to connect NGINX to the VPP -Hoststack using the VPP Communications Library (VCL) LD_PRELOAD library -(libvcl_ldpreload.so). - -In the future, a version of NGINX which has been modified to -directly use the VCL application APIs will be added to determine the -difference in performance of 'VCL Native' applications versus utilizing -LD_PRELOAD which inherently has more overhead and other limitations. - -The test configuration is as follows: - -:: - - TG Network DUT - [ AB ]=============[ VPP -> nginx ] - -where, - -1. nginx attaches to VPP and listens on TCP port 80 -2. ab runs CPS and RPS tests with packets flowing from the Test Generator node, - across 100G NICs, through VPP hoststack to NGINX. -3. At the end of the tests, the results are reported by AB. |