Because the host and guest share the same IP address with passt/pasta, it's
not possible for the guest to directly address the host. Therefore we
allow packets from the guest going to a special "NAT to host" address to be
redirected to the host, appearing there as though they have both source and
destination address of loopback.
Currently that special address is always the address of the default
gateway (or none). That can be a problem if we want that gateway to be
addressable by the guest. Therefore, allow the special "NAT to host"
address to be overridden on the command line with a new --map-host-loopback
option.
In order to exercise and test it, update the passt_in_ns and perf
tests to use this option and give different mapping addresses for the
two layers of the environment.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
We have a number of delays when we switch to new layouts that were
added to make the tests visually easier to follow, together with
blinking status bars. Shorten the delays and avoid blinking the
status bar if $FAST is set to 1 (no demo mode).
Shorten delays in busy loops to 10ms, instead of 100ms, and skip the
one-second fixed delay when we wait for the status of a command.
Cut the duration of throughput and latency tests to one second, down
from ten. Somewhat surprisingly, the results we get are rather
consistent, and not significantly different from what we'd get with
10 seconds.
This, together with Podman's commit 20f3e8909e3a ("test/system:
pasta_test_do add explicit port check"), cuts the time needed on my
setup for full test run from approximately 37 minutes to...:
$ time ./run
[exited]
PASS: 165, FAIL: 0
Log at /home/sbrivio/passt/test/test_logs/test.log
real 15m34.253s
user 0m0.011s
sys 0m0.011s
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Tested-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Starting from iperf3 version 3.16, -P / --parallel spawns multiple
clients as separate threads, instead of multiple streams serviced by
the same thread.
So we can drop our lib/test implementation to spawn several iperf3
client and server processes and finally simplify things quite a bit.
Adjust number of threads and UDP sending bandwidth to values that seem
to be more or less matching previous throughput tests on my setup.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Tested-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Packet size can make a big difference to UDP throughput, so it makes sense
to measure it for a variety of different sizes. Currently we do this by
adjusting the MTU on the relevant interface before running iperf3.
However, the UDP packet size has no inherent connection to the MTU - it's
controlled by the sender, and the MTU just affects whether the packet will
make it through or be fragmented. The only reason adjusting the MTU works
is because iperf3 bases its default packet size on the (path) MTU.
We can test this more simply by using the -l option to the iperf3 client
to directly control the packet size, instead of adjusting the MTU.
As well as simplifying this lets us test different packet sizes for host to
ns traffic. We couldn't do that previously because we don't have
permission to change the MTU on the host.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently we start both the iperf3 server(s) and client(s) afresh each time
we want to make a bandwidth measurement. That's not really necessary as
usually a whole batch of bandwidth measurements can use the same server.
Split up the iperf3 directive into 3 directives: iperf3s to start the
server, iperf3 to make a measurement and iperf3k to kill the server, so
that we can start the server less often. This - and more importantly, the
reduced number of waits for the server to be ready - reduces runtime of the
performance tests on my laptop by about 4m (out of ~28minutes).
For now we still restart the server between IPv4 and IPv6 tests. That's
because in some cases the latency measurements we make in between use the
same ports.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.
Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.
Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Now that we require 13c6be96618c ("net: stream: add unix socket")
in qemu to run the tests, we can also assume that commit df8d07081718
("virtio-net: fix bottom-half packet TX on asynchronous completion")
is present, as it was merged before that one.
This fixes the issue we attempted to work around in passt TCP and
UDP performance tests: finally drop that stuff.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Starting tcp_rr, tcp_crr, udp_rr servers in the guest takes a bit
longer than starting the corresponding clients on the host, and we
end up starting clients before servers unless we add a delay there.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
It appears that if we run throughput tests with one-second periodic
reports, the sending side of the vhost channel used for SSH-based
command dispatch occasionally stops working altogether. I haven't
investigated this further, all I see is that output is truncated
at some point, and doesn't resume.
If we use gzip compression (ssh -C) this happens less frequently,
but it still happens, seemingly indicating the issue is probably
related to vhost itself.
Disable periodic reports in iperf3 clients. The -i options were
actually redundant, so remove them from both test files as well as
from test_iperf3().
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
It looks like the workaround for the virtio_net TX hang issue is
working less reliably with the new command dispatch mechanism, I'm
not sure why. Switch to 10 seconds, at least for the moment.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Otherwise, we're depending on having /sbin in $PATH. For some reason
I didn't completely grasp, with the new command dispatch mechanism
that's not the case anymore, even if I have /sbin in $PATH in the
parent shell.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Currently all the throughput tests are run for 30s. This is reflected in
both the actual parameters given to the iperf commands, but also in the
matching sleeps in test_iperf3.
Allow this to be adjusted more easily with a new parameter to test_iperf3.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[sbrivio: Reflect new parameter in comment to test_iperf3()]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
These two commands in the DSL to run an iperf client and server are always
used together, and some of the parameters must match between them. The
iperf3s must also be run more or less immediately after iperf3c, since
iperf3c will run a client in the background after a sleep and requires a
server to be running before it will work.
A bunch of things can be made cleaner if we make a single DSL command that
runs both sides of the test. For now make the combined command work
exactly like the two commands together did, warts and all.
This does lose the ability for the DSL scripts to give additional options
to the iperf3 server, but we weren't using that anyway.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Currently test/run uses wildcards to run all of the tests in a directory.
However, that wildcard list is filtered down by the "onlyfor" directives
in the test files... usually to a single file.
Therefore, just explicitly list the files we *really* want to run for this
test mode. This makes it easier to see at the top level what tests will
be executed, and to change that list temporarily while debugging specific
failures.
This means the "onlyfor" directive no longer has any purpose, and we can
remove it. "onlyfor" was also the only used of the $MODE variable, so we
can remove that too.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
David reports that dhclient-script(8) on Fedora needs a number of
binaries that are not included in PROGS of the current mbuto profile,
and we would also need to include hostnamectl(1) there, which will
fail without a systemd init.
Embed a minimal script for dhclient(8) in the profile itself, written
to /sbin/dhclient-script at boot, to just check what we need to check
out of DHCP and DHCPv6 functionality.
While at it, drop busybox and logger from PROGS, as we don't need them,
and add hostname(1). While DHCP option 12 isn't supported yet by the
DHCP implementation in passt, we should probably add it soon.
Note: owing to the simplicity of this script, we now need to bring up
the interface before starting dhclient: add this in test scripts where
it's not the case yet.
Reported-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Suggested-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
note that we need to bring up the interface before starting dhclient
A number of tests and examples use dhclient in both IPv4 and IPv6 modes.
We use "dhclient -6" for IPv6, but usually just "dhclient" for IPv4. Add
an explicit "-4" argument to make it more clear and explicit.
In addition, when dhclient is run from within pasta it usually won't be
"real" root, and so will not have access to write the default global pid
file. This results in a mostly harmless but irritating error:
Can't create /var/run/dhclient.pid: Permission denied
We can avoid that by using the --no-pid flag to dhclient.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
ip(8)'s ability to take abbreviated arguments (e.g. "li sh" instead of
"link show") is very handy when using it interactively, but it doesn't make
for very readable scripts and examples when shown that way.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
I didn't have time to investigate the root cause for the virtio_net
TX hang yet. Add a quick work-around for the moment being.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
That test fails sometimes, it looks like iperf3 is still sending
initial messages that are too big. I'll need to figure out why,
but given that 256 bytes is not really an expected MTU, drop the
thresholds to zero for the moment being.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
The throughput results in this test look quite variable, slightly
lower figures look reasonable anyway.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
With recent improvements, we're not CPU-bound at all while testing
UDP performance. Give the VM more memory and CPUs, forward two
additional ports, start up to four threads in parallel, and give
single iperf3 threads higher bandwidth targets.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
On most recent CPUs, that's a better indication of all-core turbo
frequency, or non-turbo frequency, than /proc/cpuinfo.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
