#. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
- - **Service density 2n-skx tests**: Added higher density tests with dtc=0.5
- (2 NF each with 1 DT per physical core) with VPP as a VNF payload.
-
- - **Experimental Soak Tests**: Added performamce soak tests framework
- code for extended time duration tests and throughput discovery
- at given PLR and at give total test time e.g. minutes, hours,
- days, weeks, months, years. See updated
- :ref:`test_methodology` section for more details.
+ - **Service density 2n-skx tests**: Added higher NF density tests with
+ 802.1q (vlan) and VXLAN encapsulation from Traffic Generator.
+
+ - **GBP tests**: Added GBP (Group Based Policy) routing test cases
+ with 802.1q (vlan) external traffic.
+
+ - **AVF IPv4 scale tests**: Increased coverage of AVF IPv4 base and
+ scale test cases (Fortville NICs only).
+
+ - **2n-skx tests**: Increased coverage of selected (COP, iACL,
+ Policer) test cases.
+
+ - **IPsec scale tests**: Added IPsec interface mode scale tests with
+ 1, 40, 400, 1000, 5000, 10000, 20000, 40000, 60000 IPsec tunnels.
+ Removed DPDK backend dependency. Major IPsec test code
+ refactoring.
+
+ - **Hoststack TCP/IP tests**: Major refactor of Hoststack TCP
+ performance tests using WRK generator talking to the VPP HTTP
+ static server plugin measuring connections per second and
+ requests per second.
+
+ - **Changed methodology of dot1q tests in 2-Node testbeds**: dot1q
+ encapsulation is now used on both links of SUT. Previously dot1q
+ was used only on a single link with the other link carrying
+ untagged Ethernet frames. This change results in slightly lower
+ throughput in CSIT-1908 for all dot1q tests in all 2-Node
+ testbeds.
+
+ - **KVM VM vhost-user tests**: completed move to Kernel-VM for all
+ tests. In addition to running DPDK Testpmd as VM workload, new
+ tests created with VPP as VM workload. VPP in VM is the same
+ version as the DUT VPP (acting as vSwitch) and its configuration
+ depends on the test type. For all L2 Ethernet Switching tests
+ it's vpp-l2xc (L2 cross-connect), for all IPv4 Routing tests it's
+ vpp-ip4 (VPP IPv4 routing).
#. TEST FRAMEWORK
- - **Qemu code refactor**: Complete code refactor of the key components
- QemuUtil.py and QemuManager.py (L1 and L2 KW counterparts). Added
- implementation of kernel-image-kvm based VM alongisde the previously used
- NestedVM images. Added ability to run VPP as a payload in VNF.
-
- - **CSIT PAPI Support**: Continue converting existing VAT L1 keywords to
- PAPI L1 KWs in CSIT using VPP Python bindings. Required for migrating away
- from VAT. Redesign of key components of PAPI Executor and PAPI history.
+ - **CSIT PAPI Support**: Finished conversion of CSIT VAT L1 keywords
+ to PAPI L1 KWs in CSIT using VPP Python bindings (VPP PAPI).
+ Redesign of key components of PAPI Socket Executor and PAPI
+ history. Due to issues with PAPI performance, VAT is still used
+ in CSIT for all VPP scale tests. See known issues below.
- **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing RF keywords optimizations,
- removal of redundant RF keywords.
-
- - **Test suite generator**: Extend the test suite generator for ability to
- generate NIC permutation and search algorithm permutations from base
- suites.
+ removal of redundant RF keywords and aligning of suite/test
+ setup/teardowns.
- - **TOX verification**: Added verifications for test suite generator.
#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
for better readibility and maintenance: test grouping, axis
labels, descriptions, other informative decoration.
-#. MISCELLANEOUS
-
- - **2n-dnv Tests (3rd Party)**: Published performance tests for 2n-
- dnv (2-Node Atom Denverton) from 3rd party testbeds running FD.io
- |csit-release| automated testing code.
- Only graphs for Packet Throughput and Speedup Multi-core and not
- for Packet Latency were published as there are no results for Packet
- Latency available.
-
.. raw:: latex
\clearpage
List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests:
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
-+====+=========================================+=================================================================================================================================+
-| 1 | `CSIT-570 | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures on x520. DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-570>`_ | Suspected issue with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed outside of LF testbeds. |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 2 | `CSIT-???? | IPSecHW interface AES-GBC tests failing due to traffic not passing. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-????>`_ | |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+==========================================================================================================+
+| 1 | `CSIT-570 | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures on x520. DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-570>`_ | Suspected issue with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed outside of LF testbeds. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `VPP-662 | 9000B packets not supported by NICs VIC1227 and VIC1387. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-662>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `CSIT-1503 | [`TRex-519 <https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/youtrack/issue/trex-519>`_] XL710/XXV710 with FW 6.0.1 will have |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1503>`_ | Rx drop rate of 27MPPS. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 4 | `CSIT-1498 | Memif tests are sporadically failing on initialization of memif connection. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1498>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 5 | `CSIT-1499 | AVF tests are sporadically failing on initialization of AVF interface. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1499>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 6 | `VPP-1676 | 9000B ip4 memif errors - ip4-input: ip4 length > l2 length. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1676>`_ | IP4 jumbo frames (9000B) are dropped in case of tests with memif. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 7 | `VPP-1677 | 9000B ip4 nat44: VPP crash + coredump. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1677>`_ | VPP crashes very often in case that NAT44 is configured and it has to process IP4 jumbo frames (9000B). |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 8 | `CSIT-1591 | All CSIT scale tests can not use PAPI due to much slower performance compared to VAT/CLI (it takes much |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1499>`_ | longer to program VPP). This needs to be addressed on the PAPI side. |
+| +-----------------------------------------+ |
+| | `VPP-1763 | |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1763>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 9 | `CSIT-1592 | VPP memif API does not enable memif zero-copy, resulting in different memif configuration vs. previously |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1592>`_ | tested VAT/CLI where memif zero-copy was enabled by default. Needs to be fixed in VPP. |
+| +-----------------------------------------+ |
+| | `VPP-1764 | |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1764>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 10 | `VPP-1675 | IPv4 IPSEC 9000B packet tests are failing as no packet is forwarded. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1675>`_ | Reason: chained buffers are not supported. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 11 | `CSIT-1593 | IPv4 AVF 9000B packet tests are failing on 3n-skx while passing on 2n-skx. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1593>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+