16:02:03 <SridharRao> #startmeeting vswitchperf
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16:02:48 <SridharRao> #topic Development Update.
16:02:57 <trevor_intel> Hi Sridhar ... I am in another meeting and will try to follow along on IRC (sorry)
16:03:22 <acm> #info Al Morton
16:03:39 <SridharRao> #info Sridhar - Not much progress due to travels.
16:04:16 <SridharRao> #info need to close some reviews.
16:04:37 <SridharRao> #topic Long-Duration testing Discussion.
16:05:10 <OPNFV-Gerrit-Bot> Merged vswitchperf: trex: Add support for traffic capture  https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/50349
16:11:46 <acm> #info Because RFC2544 tests require traffic to be stopped and the test to Pause while the Queues empty
16:12:19 <acm> #info RFC2889 tests can make measurements periodically, like every 5 minutes
16:27:08 <acm> #info Metric in Max Frame rate, but test is conducted at Throughput level.
16:28:57 <acm> #info Can we use interface packet counts?
16:29:31 <SridharRao> #info Martin's query - Terminating Soak Test - interface counts on DUTs?
16:29:36 <acm> #info Difficulty is in synchronizing when the counters IN/OUT are read.
16:32:34 <SridharRao> #info can test-steps be use to realize Soak tests in VSPERF?
16:33:28 <acm> #info  I wonder if alerting the operator if Loss occurs would be sufficient?
16:33:35 <SridharRao> #info Answer: Possible if TGens supported APIs such as 'Stop'.
16:39:24 <acm> #action acm Update the SOAK test descriptions according to our current requirements
16:42:21 <acm> #info  Questions for Christian's 2 hour test
16:45:34 <SridharRao> #action Sridhar to check with Spirent on Soak Tests using STCv.
16:50:10 <SridharRao> #endmeeting