Excellent!

So would my guess be right that you plan to autogenerate the tests as well ?

--a

> On 17 Sep 2020, at 02:54, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> I did a “ps -ef | grep -I vpp” and found a few vpp processes (?) running.  I 
> killed them and then the single cdp test ran fine on using “sudo make test 
> TEST=test_cdp” from vpp root directory. 
>  
> ==============================================================================
> CDP Test Case
> ==============================================================================
> test_cdp_overflow_tlv (test_cdp.TestCDP)                             0.28 OK
> test_cdp_underflow_tlv (test_cdp.TestCDP)                            0.29 OK
> test_enable_cdp (test_cdp.TestCDP)                                   0.23 OK
> test_send_cdp_packet (test_cdp.TestCDP)                              0.28 OK
>  
> ==============================================================================
> TEST RESULTS:
>      Scheduled tests: 4
>       Executed tests: 4
>         Passed tests: 4
> ==============================================================================
>  
> Hemant
>  
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 7:43 PM
> To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
> Cc: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [vpp-dev] run existing plugin in VPP
>  
> Andrew,
>  
> Thanks.  I will have to play more with VPP because “sudo make test 
> TEST=test_cdp” fails.  If anyone else is able to run this test, then I know I 
> have some issues with my VPP setup or dependencies.
>  
> I found the CSIT reports – thanks!
>  
> Regarding my p4 to vpp compiler, it’s work in progress.  I will update you 
> all when something is ready for use.
>  
> Hemant 
>  
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Andrew 
> Yourtchenko
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 7:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] run existing plugin in VPP
>  
> Hemant,
>  
> 
> On 17 Sep 2020, at 00:43, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> 
> Andrew,
>  
> Thanks!  Yes, I am a developer trying to get started with VPP. 
>  
>  
> Cool! So my “find the answer” quiz was on target :-)
>  
> 
> I run VPP using “make run-release” and get to the “vpp#” prompt.  I could do 
> a “cdp enable” and thus I know this plugin has been loaded. 
>  
> Now how to I run the packet testing in vpp/src/plugins/cdp/test/?  There is a 
> test_cdp.py in the path.  I am familiar with PTF.
>  
> “Make test-help” will give more info.
>  
> 
> Once I can run test.py for a plugin, I’d like to learn how to run performance 
> testing to see how many packets/sec of a certain size I can achieve for a 
> plugin.  What would be a good plugin to test performance with?
>  
> That’s trickier... look around  https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT - basically, 
> perf testing the VPP is a separate project :-) but the good thing is some 
> reports might be already there..
>  
>  
> I love the fact that you (and perhaps others) have added lua examples to 
> vpp-api.
>  
> Lua didn’t get much love for quite a while and I think would need some 
> resuscitations to work :-)
> That said, last time I had a half a day to toy  with it, in half a day I had 
> something sorta working... but don’t expect what is in the tree to be up to 
> date... it’s waiting for the folks to help it :-)
>  
> 
>  
> I am developing a compiler which ingests P4 code and outputs a VPP plugin.  
> First, I will make the compiler functionally correct to support as many P4 
> features and as many VPP features.  Then I will worry about performance which 
> is a hard problem.
>  
> This is a fun idea!
>  
> 
>  
> If you see a VPP plugin, several files can be auto-generated by compiler or 
> script.  My compiler is already generating these files:
>  
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hemant hemant   1498 Sep 16 18:38 tmp_test.c
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hemant hemant  10577 Sep 16 18:38 tmp.h
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hemant hemant  79257 Sep 16 18:38 tmp.c
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hemant hemant    412 Sep 16 18:38 tmp.api
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hemant hemant    250 Sep 16 18:38 CMakeLists.txt
>  
> Nice! There is the lisp script somewhere in the tree that asks questions and 
> spits out the plugin, but it’s a skeleton, with P4 one could probably go 
> quite a good bit further...
>  
> Is your compiler gonna be open source ?
>  
> —a
>  
>  
> 
>  
> Best wishes,
>  
> Hemant
>  
>  
>  
> From: Andrew 👽 Yourtchenko <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 4:12 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] run existing plugin in VPP
>  
> Hey Hemant,
>  
> Welcome! :-)
> 
> Most of the plugins load automatically (default), some don’t by default.. 
> (see src/plugins/unittest/unittest.c on how it’s overridden).
>  
> You can take a look at the config required to change the defaults in 
> test/framework.py, line 422)
>  
> Looking at those places, as well as the CDP plugin, should answer the 
> question.
>  
> (I am assuming you are a developer trying to get started with VPP so trying 
> to give the pointers I myself would have found useful).
>  
> --a
> 
> 
> 
> On 16 Sep 2020, at 19:11, hemant via lists.fd.io 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Folks,
>  
> I am new to VPP.  I see several plugins in vpp/src/plugins.  How do I run an 
> existing plugin in VPP such as cdp?
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Hemant
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