1. Features to Date

This section provides a summary of the features implemented to date and their relevant upstream projects.

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Barometer features to date

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Barometer features to date cont.

Please note the timeline denotes DPDK releases.

2. Release B

The features implemented for OPNFV release B (as part of SFQM) in DPDK include:

  • Callback API to enable TX/RX timestamping to measure latency through DPDK.
  • Extended NIC statistics API for 1GB, 10GB and 40GB NICs to expose detailed statistics for DPDK interfaces in addition to the overall aggregate statistics.
  • DPDK Keep Alive.

3. Release C

The features implemented for OPNFV release C (as part of SFQM) include:

  • DPDK extended NIC stats API improvement; migrate from key value pairs to using id value pairs.
  • DPDK Keep Alive improvement, so that core status is exposed through a posix shared memory object.
  • collectd dpdkstat plugin that can retrieve DPDK interface statistics.
  • collectd ceilometer plugin that can publish any statistics collected by collectd to ceilometer.
  • Fuel plugin support for the collectd ceilometer plugin for OPNFV.