[PATCH v5 0/3] Add TREX Traffic Generator to DTS Framework

[Patrick Robb]

This series adds support for performance traffic generators, and
includes an implementation for using the TREX traffic generator for
performance testing. It also includes a new testsuite which measures the
single core forwarding performance of a SUT in millions of packets per
second.

v5 changes:

1. Adding a new api test function for taking a performance metrics dict
and writing it to a new performance metrics json file within the output
dir of each respective testsuite that calls this function

2. Adding the option to start a shell without adding it to the shell
pool, for when a shell is intended to outlive the current shell pool
cleanup.

Nicholas Pratte (3):
  dts: rework traffic generator inheritance structure
  dts: add trex traffic generator to dts framework
  dts: add performance test functions to test suite API

 ...sts.TestSuite_single_core_forward_perf.rst |   8 +
 doc/guides/tools/dts.rst                      |  49 +++-
 dts/api/packet.py                             |  39 ++-
 dts/api/test.py                               |  32 +++
 dts/{ => configurations}/nodes.example.yaml   |   0
 .../test_run.example.yaml                     |   6 +-
 dts/configurations/tests_config.example.yaml  |  17 ++
 dts/framework/config/test_run.py              |  22 +-
 dts/framework/context.py                      |   5 +-
 dts/framework/remote_session/blocking_app.py  |  12 +-
 .../remote_session/interactive_shell.py       |   8 +-
 dts/framework/settings.py                     |  12 +-
 dts/framework/test_run.py                     |  52 +++-
 .../traffic_generator/__init__.py             |  13 +-
 .../capturing_traffic_generator.py            |  34 +++
 .../performance_traffic_generator.py          |  64 +++++
 .../testbed_model/traffic_generator/scapy.py  |  14 +-
 .../traffic_generator/traffic_generator.py    |  44 +--
 .../testbed_model/traffic_generator/trex.py   | 259 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../TestSuite_single_core_forward_perf.py     | 151 ++++++++++
 dts/tests_config.example.yaml                 |   5 -
 21 files changed, 768 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/api/dts/tests.TestSuite_single_core_forward_perf.rst
 rename dts/{ => configurations}/nodes.example.yaml (100%)
 rename dts/{ => configurations}/test_run.example.yaml (88%)
 create mode 100644 dts/configurations/tests_config.example.yaml
 create mode 100644 dts/framework/testbed_model/traffic_generator/performance_traffic_generator.py
 create mode 100644 dts/framework/testbed_model/traffic_generator/trex.py
 create mode 100644 dts/tests/TestSuite_single_core_forward_perf.py
 delete mode 100644 dts/tests_config.example.yaml

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