+ - For more detail see the :ref:`CSIT Framework Design <csit-design>` section\r
+ in this report;\r
+\r
+#. Changes to CSIT driver for TRex Traffic Generator:\r
+\r
+ - Complete refactor of TRex CSIT driver;\r
+\r
+ - Introduction of packet traffic profiles to improve usability and\r
+ manageability of traffic profiles for a growing number of test\r
+ scenarios.\r
+\r
+ - Support for packet traffic profiles to test IPv4/IPv6 stateful and\r
+ stateless DUT data plane features;\r
+\r
+#. Added VPP performance tests\r
+\r
+ - **Linux Container VPP memif virtual interface tests**\r
+\r
+ - VPP Memif virtual interface (shared memory interface) tests\r
+ interconnecting VPP instances over memif. VPP vswitch\r
+ instance runs in bare-metal user-mode handling Intel x520 NIC\r
+ 10GbE interfaces and connecting over memif (Master side) virtual\r
+ interfaces to another instance of VPP running in bare-metal Linux\r
+ Container (LXC) with memif virtual interfaces (Slave side). LXC\r
+ runs in a priviliged mode with VPP data plane worker threads\r
+ pinned to dedicated physical CPU cores per usual CSIT practice.\r
+ Both VPP run the same version of software. This test topology is\r
+ equivalent to existing tests with vhost-user and VMs.\r
+\r
+ - **Stateful Security Groups**\r
+\r
+ - New tests of VPP stateful security-groups a.k.a. acl-plugin\r
+ functionally compatible with networking-vpp OpenStack;\r
+\r
+ - New tested security-groups access-control-lists (acl)\r
+ configuration variants include: [iaclNsl] input acl stateless,\r
+ [oaclNsl] output acl stateless, [iaclNsf] input acl stateful\r
+ a.k.a. reflect, [oaclNsf] output acl stateful a.k.a. reflect,\r
+ where N is number of access-control-entries (ace) in the acl.\r
+\r
+ - Testing packet flows transmitted by TG: 100, 10k, 100k, always\r
+ hitting the last permit entry in acl.\r
+\r
+ - **VPP vhost and VM tests**\r
+\r
+ - New VPP vhost-user and VM test cases to benchmark performance of\r
+ VPP and VM topologies with Qemu and CFS policy combinations of\r
+ [vr256,vr1024] x [cfs,cfsrr1];\r
+\r
+ - Statistical analysis of repeatibility of results;\r