\r
- **Container Topologies Orchestrated by K8s with VPP memif tests**\r
\r
- - Added tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect and Bridge-Domain configurations\r
- connecting over memif virtual interfaces VPPs running in Docker\r
- containers, with service chain topologies orchestrated by Kubernetes.\r
- Chained, horizontal and standalone linked topologies added;\r
+ - Added tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect and Bridge-Domain\r
+ configurations containers, with service chain topologies orchestrated by\r
+ Kubernetes. Added following forwarding topologies: i) "Parallel" with\r
+ packets flowing from NIC via VPP to container and back to VPP and NIC;\r
+ ii) "Chained" a.k.a. "Snake" with packets flowing via VPP to container,\r
+ back to VPP, to next container, back to VPP and so on until the last\r
+ container in chain, then back to VPP and NIC; iii) "Horizontal" with\r
+ packets flowing via VPP to container, then via "horizontal" memif to\r
+ next container, and so on until the last container, then back to VPP and\r
+ NIC;.\r
\r
- **VPP TCP/IP stack**\r
\r
- - Added tests with VPP builtin TCP based HTTP server. WRK traffic generator\r
- is used.\r
+ - Added tests for VPP TCP/IP stack using VPP built-in HTTP server.\r
+ WRK traffic generator is used as a client-side;\r
\r
- **SRv6 tests**\r
\r
- - [placeholder]\r
+ - Initial SRv6 (Segment Routing IPv6) tests verifying performance of\r
+ IPv6 and SRH (Segment Routing Header) encapsulation, decapsulation,\r
+ lookups and rewrites based on configured End and End.DX6 SRv6 egress\r
+ functions;\r
\r
- **IPSecSW tests**\r
\r
- SW computed IPSec encryption with AES-GCM, CBC-SHA1 ciphers, in\r
- combination with IPv4 routed-forwarding.\r
+ combination with IPv4 routed-forwarding;\r
\r
#. Presentation and Analytics Layer\r
\r
- - Added multi-core scale-up analysis into Presentation and Analytics Layer\r
- (PAL) for automated CSIT test results analysis;\r
-\r
+ - Added throughput speedup analysis for multi-core and multi-thread\r
+ VPP tests into Presentation and Analytics Layer (PAL) for automated\r
+ CSIT test results analysis;\r
\r
#. Other improvements\r
\r
- **Framework optimizations**\r
\r
- - Ability to run CSIT framework on ARM architecture.\r
+ - Ability to run CSIT framework on ARM architecture;\r
\r
- - Overall stability improvements.\r
+ - Overall stability improvements;\r
\r
-Performance Improvements\r
-------------------------\r
+Performance Changes\r
+-------------------\r
\r
-Substantial improvements in measured packet throughput have been observed in a\r
-number of CSIT |release| tests listed below, with relative increase of\r
-double-digit percentage points. Relative improvements for this release are\r
-calculated against the test results listed in CSIT |release-1| report. The\r
+Substantial changes in measured packet throughput have been observed in a\r
+number of CSIT |release| tests listed below. Relative changes for this release\r
+are calculated against the test results listed in CSIT |release-1| report. The\r
comparison is calculated between the mean values based on collected and\r
archived test results' samples for involved VPP releases. Standard deviation\r
-has been also listed for CSIT |release|. Performance numbers since release\r
-VPP-16.09 are provided for reference.\r
-\r
-NDR Throughput\r
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
-\r
-Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests:\r
-\r
-.. only:: html\r
-\r
- .. csv-table::\r
- :align: center\r
- :file: performance_improvements/performance_improvements_ndr_top.csv\r
-\r
-.. only:: latex\r
-\r
- .. raw:: latex\r
-\r
- \makeatletter\r
- \csvset{\r
- perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead},\r
- }\r
- \makeatother\r
-\r
- {\tiny\r
- \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma,\r
- respect all,\r
- no check column count,\r
- perfimprovements column width=1cm,\r
- late after line={\\\hline},\r
- late after last line={\end{longtable}}\r
- ]{../_tmp/src/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/performance_improvements_ndr_top.csv}\r
- }\r
+has been also listed for CSIT |release|.\r
\r
+NDR Throughput Changes\r
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
\r
-PDR Throughput\r
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
+NDR small packet throughput changes between releases are available in a CSV and\r
+pretty ASCII formats:\r
\r
-Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%:\r
+ - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-ndr-1t1c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-ndr-2t2c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-ndr-1t1c-full.txt>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-ndr-2t2c-full.txt>`_.\r
\r
-.. only:: html\r
+PDR Throughput Changes\r
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
\r
- .. csv-table::\r
- :align: center\r
- :file: performance_improvements/performance_improvements_pdr_top.csv\r
-\r
-.. only:: latex\r
-\r
- .. raw:: latex\r
-\r
- \makeatletter\r
- \csvset{\r
- perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead},\r
- }\r
- \makeatother\r
-\r
- {\tiny\r
- \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma,\r
- respect all,\r
- no check column count,\r
- perfimprovements column width=1cm,\r
- late after line={\\\hline},\r
- late after last line={\end{longtable}}\r
- ]{../_tmp/src/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/performance_improvements_pdr_top.csv}\r
- }\r
+NDR small packet throughput changes between releases are available in a CSV and\r
+pretty ASCII formats:\r
\r
+ - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-pdr-1t1c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-pdr-2t2c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-pdr-1t1c-full.txt>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-pdr-2t2c-full.txt>`_.\r
\r
Measured improvements are in line with VPP code optimizations listed in\r
-`VPP-17.10 release notes\r
-<https://docs.fd.io/vpp/17.10/release_notes_1710.html>`_.\r
-\r
-Other Performance Changes\r
--------------------------\r
-\r
-Other changes in measured packet throughput, with either minor relative increase\r
-or decrease, have been observed in a number of CSIT |release| tests listed\r
-below. Relative changes are calculated against the test results listed in CSIT\r
-|release-1| report.\r
-\r
-NDR Throughput\r
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
-\r
-Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests:\r
-\r
-.. only:: html\r
-\r
- .. csv-table::\r
- :align: center\r
- :file: performance_improvements/performance_improvements_ndr_low.csv\r
-\r
-.. only:: latex\r
-\r
- .. raw:: latex\r
-\r
- \makeatletter\r
- \csvset{\r
- perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead},\r
- }\r
- \makeatother\r
-\r
- {\tiny\r
- \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma,\r
- respect all,\r
- no check column count,\r
- perfimprovements column width=1cm,\r
- late after line={\\\hline},\r
- late after last line={\end{longtable}}\r
- ]{../_tmp/src/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/performance_improvements_ndr_low.csv}\r
- }\r
-\r
-\r
-PDR Throughput\r
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
-\r
-Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%:\r
-\r
-.. only:: html\r
-\r
- .. csv-table::\r
- :align: center\r
- :file: performance_improvements/performance_improvements_pdr_low.csv\r
-\r
-.. only:: latex\r
-\r
- .. raw:: latex\r
-\r
- \makeatletter\r
- \csvset{\r
- perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead},\r
- }\r
- \makeatother\r
-\r
- {\tiny\r
- \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma,\r
- respect all,\r
- no check column count,\r
- perfimprovements column width=1cm,\r
- late after line={\\\hline},\r
- late after last line={\end{longtable}}\r
- ]{../_tmp/src/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/performance_improvements_pdr_low.csv}\r
- }\r
-\r
+`VPP-18.01 release notes\r
+<https://docs.fd.io/vpp/18.01/release_notes_1801.html>`_.\r
\r
Known Issues\r
------------\r
| 4 | Lower than expected NDR throughput with | CSIT-569 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR and |\r
| | xl710 and x710 NICs, compared to x520 NICs. | | PDR throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs. |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-\r