Thanks, Daniel for your feedback and encouragement!

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From: Daniel Farrell [mailto:dfarrell@...]
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 8:28 AM
To: Madhava Bangera, Raksha
Cc: integration-dev@...; openflowjava-dev@...
Subject: Re: [integration-dev] Inputs on cbench-like Java based tool that supports openflow 1.3

Hello Raksha!

This is a great project! Wonderful news to start a Saturday. :)

There have been discussions about building a CBench replacement for quite some time. Ed and I talked about it at a Dev Design Summit seriously enough that I created a "Better CBench" repo (but didn't actually end up with time to build it).

There's little doubt that it needs to be replaced. WCBench makes it more usable, but CBench is barely holding together and is becoming more and more irrelevant as OF1.3 becomes normal.

One thing to keep in mind is that CBench-style tests aren't meant to provide more than a small portion of the performance picture for an SDN controller. Tests that uses OF southbound packet-in messages to stress the controller are also very hard to compare controller to controller, as it's easy to optimize that metric to amazing values without actually getting much real-world benefit. It also of course only applies to reactive OF SDN controllers. That said, CBench and WCBench have found a bunch of bugs for us and we still use them in CI to help watch for changes in performance (and verify it doesn't fall off a cliff).

You could do this work under the umbrella of the newly created ODL Performance Group (I'm on a wiki-creating sprint atm, link soon). The idea is to provide a namespace under which we can organize perf work.

I'd be glad to help! as you can tell I've thought about this quite a bit and am excited it's making more progress.

Thank you for your work!

Daniel Farrell
Software Engineer, Red Hat SDN Team
https://twitter.com/dfarrell07

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Hi all,

I am an intern in Intel Corporation with OpenDaylight team. As my
intern project, I have been thinking to build a new tool preferably in
Java using openflowjava library to benchmark SDN controllers on
latency and throughput to start with. The existing cbench benchmarking
tool supports Openflow 1.0 only and the new tool would include support
for the latest version of Openflow (OF 1.3) and TLS.

I would appreciate your inputs/suggestions regarding the above project idea.
Also feel free to critic if this idea is already being
implemented/completed. If not and the idea sounds good, I would be
happy to work on this.

Thanks & Regards,
Raksha



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