On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 10:35:07AM +0000, Juraj Linkeš wrote: > All the necessary code needed to connect to a node in a topology with > a bit more, such as basic logging and some extra useful methods. > > To run the code, modify the config file, conf.yaml and execute ./main.py > from the root dts folder. Here's an example config: > executions: > - system_under_test: "SUT 1" > nodes: > - name: "SUT 1" > hostname: 127.0.0.1 > user: root > > The framework will use the user's SSH key to authenticate. User password > can be specified, in which case it will be used, but it's strongly > discouraged. > > There are configuration files with a README that help with setting up > the execution/development environment. > > The code only connects to a node. You'll see logs emitted to console > saying where DTS connected. > > There's only a bit of documentation, as there's not much to document. > We'll add some real docs when there's enough functionality to document, > when the HelloWorld testcases is in (point 4 in our roadmap below). What > will be documented later is runtime dependencies and how to set up the DTS > control node environment. > > This is our current roadmap: > 1. Review this patchset and do the rest of the items in parallel, if > possible. > 2. We have extracted the code needed to run the most basic testcase, > HelloWorld, which runs the DPDK Hello World application. We'll split > this along logical/functional boundaries and send after 1 is done. > 3. Once we have 2 applied, we're planning on adding a basic functional > testcase - pf_smoke. This send a bit of traffic, so the big addition is > the software traffic generator, Scapy. There's some work already done on > Traffic generators we'll be sending as a dependence on this patch > series. > 4. After 3, we'll add a basic performance testcase which doesn't use > Scapy, but Trex or Ixia instead. > 5. This is far in the future, but at this point we should have all of > the core functionality in place. What then remains is adding the rest of > the testcases. > > We're already working on items 2-4 and we may send more patches even > before this patch series is accepted if that's beneficial. The new > patches would then depend on this patch. > > This patch, as well as all others in the pipeline, are the result of > extensive DTS workgroup review which happens internally. If you'd like > us to make it more public we'd have no problem with that. >
Thanks for all the work on this, it's good to see DTS making its way slowly towards mainline DPDK. Series-acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
