#opnfv-vswitchperf: vswitchperf

Meeting summary

1. Development Update. (SridharRao, 16:02:48)
   1. Al Morton (acm, 16:03:22)
   2. Sridhar - Not much progress due to travels. (SridharRao, 16:03:39)
   3. need to close some reviews. (SridharRao, 16:04:16)
   
   
2. Long-Duration testing Discussion. (SridharRao, 16:04:37)
   1. Because RFC2544 tests require traffic to be stopped and the test to Pause while the Queues empty (acm, 16:11:46)
   2. RFC2889 tests can make measurements periodically, like every 5 minutes (acm, 16:12:19)
   3. Metric in Max Frame rate, but test is conducted at Throughput level. (acm, 16:27:08)
   4. Can we use interface packet counts? (acm, 16:28:57)
   5. Martin's query - Terminating Soak Test - interface counts on DUTs? (SridharRao, 16:29:31)
   6. Difficulty is in synchronizing when the counters IN/OUT are read. (acm, 16:29:36)
   7. can test-steps be use to realize Soak tests in VSPERF? (SridharRao, 16:32:34)
   8. I wonder if alerting the operator if Loss occurs would be sufficient? (acm, 16:33:28)
   9. Answer: Possible if TGens supported APIs such as 'Stop'. (SridharRao, 16:33:35)
   10. ACTION: acm Update the SOAK test descriptions according to our current requirements (acm, 16:39:24)
   11. Questions for Christian's 2 hour test (acm, 16:42:21)
   12. ACTION: Sridhar to check with Spirent on Soak Tests using STCv. (SridharRao, 16:45:34)

Action items

1. acm Update the SOAK test descriptions according to our current requirements
2. Sridhar to check with Spirent on Soak Tests using STCv.

Action items, by person

1. acm
   1. acm Update the SOAK test descriptions according to our current requirements

People present (lines said)

1. SridharRao (10)
2. acm (9)
3. collabot (3)
4. trevor_intel (1)
5. OPNFV-Gerrit-Bot (1)