Add static routes to NFDs in parallel

This allows setting up static routing in large
topologies in a reasonable time. Some timer values
are also reduced, seems to work fine to me

Change-Id: I112cfd216615a100db6dc18182db40ba614d83e6

minindn/apps/nfd.py

@@ -72,4 +72,4 @@ class Nfd(Application):
 
     def start(self):
         Application.start(self, 'nfd --config {}'.format(self.confFile), logfile=self.logFile)
-        Minindn.sleep(2)
+        Minindn.sleep(0.5)

minindn/helpers/ndn_routing_helper.py

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import json
 import operator
 from collections import defaultdict
 from tqdm import tqdm
+from joblib import Parallel, delayed
 
 from mininet.log import info, debug, error, warn
 from minindn.helpers.nfdc import Nfdc as nfdc
@@ -295,13 +296,22 @@ class NdnRoutingHelper(object):
 
     def globalRoutingHelperHandler(self):
         info('Creating faces and adding routes to FIB\n')
-        for host in tqdm(self.net.hosts):
-            neighborIPs = self.getNeighbor(host)
-            self.createFaces(host, neighborIPs)
-            self.routeAdd(host, neighborIPs)
+
+        res = Parallel(n_jobs=-1, require='sharedmem',
+                       prefer="threads")(delayed(self.addNodeRoutes)(host) for host in tqdm(self.net.hosts))
 
         info('Processed all the routes to NFD\n')
 
+    def addNodeRoutes(self, node):
+        """
+        Create faces to neighbors and add all routes for one node
+
+        :param Node node: Node from net object
+        """
+        neighborIPs = self.getNeighbor(node)
+        self.createFaces(node, neighborIPs)
+        self.routeAdd(node, neighborIPs)
+
     def addOrigin(self, nodes, prefix):
         """
         Add prefix/s as origin on node/s

minindn/helpers/nfdc.py

@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
 from mininet.log import debug
 from minindn.minindn import Minindn
 
-SLEEP_TIME = 0.2
+# If needed (e.g. to speed up the process), use a smaller (or larger value) 
+# based on your machines resource (CPU, memory)
+SLEEP_TIME = 0.1
 
 class Nfdc(object):
     STRATEGY_ASF = 'asf'

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 python-igraph
 setuptools
-tqdm
+tqdm
+joblib