2.16.2.31. Yardstick Test Case Description TC080¶
Network Latency | |
test case id | OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC080_NETWORK_LATENCY_BETWEEN_CONTAINER |
metric | RTT (Round Trip Time) |
test purpose | The purpose of TC080 is to do a basic verification that network latency is within acceptable boundaries when packets travel between containers located in two different Kubernetes pods. The purpose is also to be able to spot the trends. Test results, graphs and similar shall be stored for comparison reasons and product evolution understanding between different OPNFV versions and/or configurations. |
test tool | ping Ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It measures the round-trip time for packet sent from the originating host to a destination computer that are echoed back to the source. Ping is normally part of any Linux distribution, hence it doesn’t need to be installed. It is also part of the Yardstick Docker image. |
test topology | Ping packets (ICMP protocol’s mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram) are sent from host container to target container to elicit ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE. |
configuration | file: opnfv_yardstick_tc080.yaml Packet size 200 bytes. Test duration 60 seconds. SLA RTT is set to maximum 10 ms. |
applicability | This test case can be configured with different:
Default values exist. SLA is optional. The SLA in this test case serves as an example. Considerably lower RTT is expected, and also normal to achieve in balanced L2 environments. However, to cover most configurations, both bare metal and fully virtualized ones, this value should be possible to achieve and acceptable for black box testing. Many real time applications start to suffer badly if the RTT time is higher than this. Some may suffer bad also close to this RTT, while others may not suffer at all. It is a compromise that may have to be tuned for different configuration purposes. |
usability | This test case should be run in Kunernetes environment. |
references |
ETSI-NFV-TST001 |
pre-test conditions | The test case Docker image (openretriever/yardstick) needs to be pulled into Kubernetes environment. No further requirements have been identified. |
test sequence | description and expected result |
step 1 | Two containers are booted, as server and client. |
step 2 | Yardstick is connected with the server container by using ssh. ‘ping_benchmark’ bash script is copied from Jump Host to the server container via the ssh tunnel. |
step 3 | Ping is invoked. Ping packets are sent from server container to client container. RTT results are calculated and checked against the SLA. Logs are produced and stored. Result: Logs are stored. |
step 4 | Two containers are deleted. |
test verdict | Test should not PASS if any RTT is above the optional SLA value, or if there is a test case execution problem. |