Multi-Core Speedup
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-All performance tests are executed with single processor core and with
+All performance tests are executed with single physical core and with
multiple cores scenarios.
Intel Hyper-Threading (HT)
|csit-release| performance tests are executed with server SUTs' Intel
XEON processors configured with Intel Hyper-Threading Disabled for all
Xeon Haswell testbeds (3n-hsw) and with Intel Hyper-Threading Enabled
-for all Xeon Skylake testbeds.
+for all Xeon Skylake and Xeon Cascadelake testbeds.
More information about physical testbeds is provided in
:ref:`tested_physical_topologies`.
#. 2t2c - 2 VPP worker threads on 2 physical cores.
#. 4t4c - 4 VPP worker threads on 4 physical cores.
-#. Intel Xeon Skylake testbeds (2n-skx, 3n-skx) with Intel HT enabled
- (2 logical CPU cores per each physical core):
+#. Intel Xeon Skylake and Cascadelake testbeds (2n-skx, 3n-skx, 2n-clx)
+ with Intel HT enabled (2 logical CPU cores per each physical core):
#. 2t1c - 2 VPP worker threads on 1 physical core.
#. 4t2c - 4 VPP worker threads on 2 physical cores.
the same amount of received packet load and does the same amount of
packet processing work. This is achieved by evenly distributing per
interface type (e.g. physical, virtual) receive queues over VPP workers
-using default VPP round- robin mapping and by loading these queues with
+using default VPP round-robin mapping and by loading these queues with
the same amount of packet flows.
If number of VPP workers is higher than number of physical or virtual
Section :ref:`throughput_speedup_multi_core` includes a set of graphs
illustrating packet throughout speedup when running VPP worker threads
on multiple cores. Note that in quite a few test cases running VPP
-workers on 2 or 4 physical cores hits the I/O bandwidth or packets-per-
-second limit of tested NIC.
+workers on 2 or 4 physical cores hits the I/O bandwidth
+or packets-per-second limit of tested NIC.