iperf 2.0.14 in early field test (EFT) phase

[rjmcmahon]

Hi All,

Sorry for the spam - trying to reach interested parties.

Just a heads up that iperf 2.0.14 is in early field test phase. Lots of 
new features around write to read latencies and others. Also, 
full-duplex, same socket testing now supported too.  Use -e to get the 
enhanced output. Man page should be in reasonable shape.  Release notes 
as of today:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/

2.0.14 change set (as of October 17th, 2020)
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o scaling improvements for -P, i.e. improved support for large numbers 
of traffic threads
o major code refactoring (see doc/DESIGN_NOTES) for maintainability, 
extensibilty, performance, scaling, memory usage
o support for full duplex traffic using --full-duplex
o support for reverse traffic using --reverse
o support for role-reversal character of asterisk in the transfer id
o transfer id now an incrementing integer and no longer the socket id
o support for TCP connect only tests with --connect-only
o isochronous support compiled in by default, must use config to disable
o support --isochronous for both UDP or TCP traffic to simulate video 
streams
o use of clock_nanosleep when supported to schedule isochronous burst 
starts, otherwise use nanosleep delay
o support for --trip-times indicating the client and server clocks are 
synchronized to an accuracy sufficient, note: consider the use of 
precision time protocol as well as ask your data center to provide 
access to a GPS disciplined reference time source
o support for --trip-times with -d and -r bidirectional tests
o output TCP connect times (3WHS) in connect reports
o support for application level tcp connect retries via 
--connect-retries n
o rate-limited options of -b and --fq-rate supported for unidirectional, 
full duplex and reverse traffic
o reporter thread designed to automatically cause packet reports to 
aggregate - mitigating and hopefully removing thread thrashing
o support for frame or burst based reporting or sampling vs time based 
via -i [f|F] (experimental)
o support for UDP traffic only from client to server with --no-udp-fin
o support for write to read latencies (UDP and TCP) with --trip-times
o support for sum only outputs with --sum-only
o support for little's law calculations in --trip-time outputs
o support for --txstart-time <epoch-time> to schedule client traffic 
start, timestamp support microseconds, e.g. unix $(expr $(date +%s) + 
1).$(date +%N)
o support for --txdelay-time to insert delay between TCP three way 
handshake (3WHS) and data transfer
o support for --no-connect-sync which disables transmit traffic start 
synchronization when -P is used, defaults to synchronized
o option of --full-duplex implementation uses a barrier on the client 
side to synchronize full duplex traffic
o no limits to group sum reports, i.e. all clients will get its own sum 
report per a server
o improved report timestamps, e.g. end to end or client and server based 
timestamps with --trip-times
o improved settings messaging
o improved messaging for --tcp-congestion or -Z
o re-implemented -U for single UDP server with minimal threading 
interactions
o re-implemented -1 or --singleclient where server will serialize 
traffic runs
o warning message if the test were likely CPU bound instead of network 
i/o bound
o fix the case when -P <value> is set on the server such that summing 
output is displayed
o multicast listener will autoset -U (single server), e.g -P > 1 not 
supported for multicast
o multicast listener no longer busy drops multicast packets during 
traffic test, i.e. only server thread receives them
o immediate bail out on mutually exclusive command line options
o man page updates with examples
o tested with 1000's of traffic streams, WiFi, 10G and 100G


Thanks,
Bob McMahon