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Onload application example: sfnettest

Here, we run a small utility, sfnt-pingpong from sfnettest, in a client and server pair to demonstrate Onload acceleration.

The sfnettest image is solely focused on its performance utils and thus has a micro shell environment; in-depth network inspection should be performed using dedicated software or Onload tools available on the node's host filesystem.

Deploy

The following example client-server.yaml will require customisation to your environment. The manifest utilises two separately deployed resources which are recommended as part of a full Onload Operator deployment:

  • A Multus network -- connects the pods to hardware that supports acceleration.
  • An Onload profile -- sets environment variables for the pod which are then consumed by userland Onload running in the container(s).

Review the defaults and apply:

  • Node names: compute-0 and compute-1
  • Network: ipvlan-bond0 (Multus)
  • Namespace: default
  • Onload accelerated: amd.com/onload resource
  • Onload profile: onload-latency-profile
kubectl apply --validate=true -f client-server.yaml
kubectl describe pods -l app.kubernetes.io/part-of=sfnettest

Interactive test

Obtain the SFC interface's IP address of the onload-sfnettest-server pod, here 198.19.0.1:

$ kubectl get events --field-selector involvedObject.name=sfnettest --field-selector reason=AddedInterface
LAST SEEN   TYPE     REASON           OBJECT                        MESSAGE
24s         Normal   AddedInterface   pod/onload-sfnettest-client   Add eth0 [192.168.6.203/23] from openshift-sdn
24s         Normal   AddedInterface   pod/onload-sfnettest-client   Add net1 [198.19.1.1/16] from default/ipvlan-bond0
24s         Normal   AddedInterface   pod/onload-sfnettest-server   Add eth0 [192.168.8.143/23] from openshift-sdn
24s         Normal   AddedInterface   pod/onload-sfnettest-server   Add net1 [198.19.0.1/16] from default/ipvlan-bond0

The server pod is already running the accelerated sfnt-pingpong instance.

Run sfnt-pingpong as a client within the onload-sfnettest-client pod, which has an accelerated environment:

kubectl exec onload-sfnettest-client -- sfnt-pingpong udp 198.19.0.1

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