passt - Plug A Simple Socket Transport

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*	test/perf: Work-around for virtio_net hang before long streams from guest	Stefano Brivio	2022-03-29	2	-0/+30
\| \| \| \| \| \| \|	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>
*	test/perf/passt_udp: Drop threshold for 256B test	Stefano Brivio	2022-02-21	1	-2/+2
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	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>
*	test/perf/passt_tcp: Drop iperf3 window size for host-to-guest tests	Stefano Brivio	2022-02-01	1	-10/+10
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	With a recent 5.15 kernel, passing a huge window size to iperf3 with lower MTUs makes iperf3 stop sending packets after a few seconds -- I haven't investigated this in detail, but the window size will be adjusted dynamically anyway and not passing it doesn't actually affect throughput, so simply drop the option. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
*	perf/passt_udp: Lower failure throughput thresholds with big MTUs	Stefano Brivio	2022-01-26	1	-4/+4
\| \| \| \| \| \| \|	The throughput results in this test look quite variable, slightly lower figures look reasonable anyway. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
*	test/perf: Actually load passt enough to test UDP performance	Stefano Brivio	2021-10-21	2	-26/+26
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	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>
*	test/perf: Try sourcing maximum scaling frequency from cpufreq	Stefano Brivio	2021-10-21	4	-4/+14
\| \| \| \| \| \| \|	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>
*	perf/passt_udp: Don't overshoot UDP bandwidth excessively on larger MTUs	Stefano Brivio	2021-10-19	1	-2/+2
\| \| \| \| \| \| \|	...performance with 64KiB MTUs might look worse than with 9000bytes on some configurations. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
*	perf/passt_tcp: Don't exceed typical L3 cache sizes with buffers	Stefano Brivio	2021-10-19	1	-8/+8
\| \| \| \| \| \|	...we might see misleading rate drops with larger MTUs otherwise. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
*	test/perf: Use CPU frequency from /proc/cpuinfo instead of cpupower(1)	Stefano Brivio	2021-10-19	4	-8/+8
\| \| \| \| \| \|	Get it to work also in nested virtualisation environments. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
*	test: Add CI/demo scripts	Stefano Brivio	2021-09-27	4	-0/+859
	Not really quick, definitely dirty. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>