Adding the dependencies for mpstat, which is part of the sysstat package.

client/tests/netperf2/netperf2.py

 import os, time, re, logging
 from autotest_lib.client.bin import test, utils
 from autotest_lib.client.bin.net import net_utils
 from autotest_lib.client.common_lib import error
 
 MPSTAT_IX = 0
 NETPERF_IX = 1
 
 class netperf2(test.test):
-    version = 3
+    version = 4
 
     # ftp://ftp.netperf.org/netperf/netperf-2.4.4.tar.gz
     def setup(self, tarball = 'netperf-2.4.4.tar.gz'):
         self.job.require_gcc()
         tarball = utils.unmap_url(self.bindir, tarball, self.tmpdir)
         utils.extract_tarball_to_dir(tarball, self.srcdir)
         os.chdir(self.srcdir)
 
         utils.system('patch -p0 < ../wait_before_data.patch')
         # Fixing up a compile issue under newer systems that have
         # CPU_SET_S defined on /usr/include/sched.h, backported from
         # upstream svn trunk
         utils.system('patch -p0 < ../fix_netperf_build.patch')
         utils.system('./configure')
         utils.system('make')
         utils.system('sync')
 
+        self.job.setup_dep(['sysstat'])
+
 
     def initialize(self):
         self.server_prog = '%s&' % os.path.join(self.srcdir, 'src/netserver')
         self.client_prog = '%s' % os.path.join(self.srcdir, 'src/netperf')
         self.valid_tests = ['TCP_STREAM', 'TCP_MAERTS', 'TCP_RR', 'TCP_CRR',
                             'TCP_SENDFILE', 'UDP_STREAM', 'UDP_RR']
         self.results = []
         self.actual_times = []
         self.netif = ''
         self.network = net_utils.network()
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         self.results.append(utils.system_output(cmd, retain_output=True))
 
 
     def server_stop(self):
         utils.system('killall netserver', ignore_status=True)
 
 
     def client(self, server_ip, test, test_time, num_streams,
                test_specific_args, cpu_affinity):
         args = '-H %s -t %s -l %d' % (server_ip, test, test_time)
+
+        mpstat = os.path.join(self.autodir + 'deps/sysstat/mpstat')
+
         if self.wait_time:
             args += ' -s %d ' % self.wait_time
 
         # Append the test specific arguments.
         if test_specific_args:
             args += ' ' + test_specific_args
 
         cmd = '%s %s' % (self.client_prog, args)
 
         if cpu_affinity:
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         end_time = curr_time + timeout
         while curr_time < end_time:
             if not os.system('ping -c 1 ' + ip):
                 # Ping succeeded
                 return
             # Ping failed. Lets sleep a bit and try again.
             time.sleep(5)
             curr_time = time.time()
 
         return