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-CSIT Release Notes\r
-==================\r
-\r
-Changes in CSIT |release|\r
--------------------------\r
-\r
-#. Added VPP performance tests\r
-\r
-   - **Linux Container VPP memif tests**\r
-\r
-     - Tests with VPP in L2 Bridge-Domain configuration connecting over\r
-       memif virtual interfaces to VPPs running in LXCs;\r
-\r
-   - **Docker Container VPP memif tests**\r
-\r
-     - Tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect configuration connecting over\r
-       memif virtual interfaces VPPs running in Docker containers;\r
-\r
-   - **Container Topologies Orchestrated by K8s with VPP memif tests**\r
-\r
-     - 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
-\r
-   - **Stateful Security Groups**\r
-\r
-     - m-thread m-core VPP stateful and stateless security-groups tests;\r
-\r
-   - **MAC-IP binding**\r
-\r
-     - MACIP input access-lists, single-thread single-core and m-thread\r
-       m-core tests;\r
-\r
-     - Statistical analysis of repeatibility of results;\r
-\r
-Performance Improvements\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
-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
-\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_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
-\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
-\r
-Known Issues\r
-------------\r
-\r
-Here is the list of known issues in CSIT |release| for VPP performance tests:\r
-\r
-+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| # | Issue                                           | Jira ID    | Description                                                     |\r
-+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 1 | Vic1385 and Vic1227 low performance.            | VPP-664    | Low NDR performance.                                            |\r
-|   |                                                 |            |                                                                 |\r
-+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 2 | Sporadic NDR discovery test failures on x520.   | CSIT-750   | Suspected issue with HW settings (BIOS, FW) in LF               |\r
-|   |                                                 |            | infrastructure. Issue can't be replicated outside LF.           |\r
-+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 3 | VPP in 2t2c setups - large variation            | CSIT-568   | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR       |\r
-|   | of discovered NDR throughput values across      |            | throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs, x520 NICs are fine. |\r
-|   | multiple test runs with xl710 and x710 NICs.    |            |                                                                 |\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
+.. _vpp_performance_tests_release_notes:
+
+Release Notes
+=============
+
+Changes in |csit-release|
+-------------------------
+
+#. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
+
+   - **Enhanced and added VPP hoststack tests** to daily and weekly
+     trending including: Quic VPP Echo, UDP+TCP LD_PRELOAD iPerf3,
+     LD_PRELOAD NGINX.
+
+   - **Added Nvidia/Mellanox DPDK tests** to daily and weekly trending
+     and report, in addition to RDMA_CORE ones that were already
+     there.
+
+   - **Jumbo frames tests** got fixed and re-added number of to report
+     coverage tests.
+
+   - **Intel Xeon SKX performance testbeds** got decommissioned and
+     removed from FD.io performance lab.
+
+#. TEST FRAMEWORK
+
+   - **CSIT test environment** version has not changed from ver. 11 used
+     in previous release, see :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
+
+   - **CSIT PAPI optimizations for scale** got applied improving PAPI
+     programming speed especially for large scale tests. VAT has been
+     now completely deprecated from CSIT.
+
+   - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug
+     fixes.
+
+#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
+
+   - `Performance dashboard <http://csit.fd.io/>`_ got updated with
+     addition of VPP telemetry trending across all VPP tests. A number
+     of code and AWS resource usage optimizations got applied to the
+     data processing pipeline and UI frontend and backend.
+
+   - Examples of release iterative data visualisation:
+
+     - `Packet throughput 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base-scale-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrdVcluwjAQ_Zr0ggbZDml64QDkP5BxhhJlwYxNVPr1OAhpYiGO7cEHb3pv1qeRnT8T7h1266zYZuU2U2VThy3LN4twUOdULhSM1oLKl-FG2KF2CGqAxvyAFOIblZX4JYW5gB6P0NgVfK4OIA2gP02vsA6Tja1pcq12T9cvcRitr57RED1CRiQGo7SYZk-3GeddsszXhJoNQsYMeXSzZOKamHUk3aNrfpGpoQuMm9BohqSJ_fubnaHPRpXVg_F3qjijO1RCtEBDnZo8UXFJ6NQmKlGbgjp9ujPU_8cEFdXHcKb-8Q8V1R2PI8PX>`_
+     - `Speedup Multi-Core throughput graph for 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrtlM8OgjAMxp8GL6aGFRAvHlTew8xRhAR1bpOoT-8wJIUYEg8mXjjsX35fu65fMusuhvaW6nWQbIN0G2Ba5X4Kos3cL6a2GIUIjdaA0cLvDNUkLQGeoVJ3EGF4JNSCViJUV5BNAZWOYRkfQCggV7YnPw5tjM5Nmxp3XeqPe5jmN8fU3z4gDRmGg7JYpstHTzNWLOulIckBvmJGjmyvmOGbWFUYeSJbPYmlvgvMlW80I6GG-d1D92jXqDR7K37qCk6ujLuC_3IlnlwZdyX-0pUkm50v5vT-yZLsBXP6Swk>`_
+     - `MRR, NDR and PDR comparison for 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrtVMsOgjAQ_Bq8mDW0gHjxoPIfppZVSQDrthLx6y2GuBBj4kVPHvrKzG6nM0mtOxFuLZbLIFkH6TqQaZH7KYhWU79QaWUUSmiMARnN_I6wRGURZA2FvoIIwwNKI3AhQn0G1eyhMDHM4x0IDeiO3cmPXVdTEXWt5aZv_XIPo_nFMepvHyENEoMjWUwzx3bAeSeW-YpQcYFXzJBDOxAzfhOz9qQqtMUNmepdYFx7oxkSetzftWaA9kal2YPx5VTq_J_KR6n0Rv0mFfNP5bNUzDOVJJvUJ6oeP1mS3QG2H0sT>`_
+     - `Normalized throughput architecture comparison for 2n-[icx|clx]-e810cq-ip4-base-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrVk00OgjAQhU-DGzOGFhA3LlTuYUoZhKRibSsRT28hJANRF-500b98rzOvM6l1F4NHi2obJPsg3Qc8rQs_BdFu6RejLI9CDq3WwKOV3xlUKCwCb0CqO7AwPCHXDDcslFcQbQm1jmEd58AkoKv6kx95f0cXpg_ND2PolzxEi5sj6rPPSIuG4MwWyXTVTTSfzJJeGBR0wTsm5NBOzMzfRKrSiDPa-oEk9VUgLn2hCTE5j-86PaFjodJsUHzXlVr-UVfem_35riTZormY8_BneNpvhRpzJNkT6FzkMw>`_
+     - `NICs comparison for 2n-icx-ip4-base-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrll99ugyAUh5_G3SxnESx1N7to53s0FI6rmbYMnKF7-qFrcmRmV7vReuG__A74wSckuvZi8eCwfknEPsn3Cc8rHU5JtnsMF1s7nqUcOmOAZ0_hzmKN0iHwM6jaA0vTN-SGKS_EVkJTewGV2cB2cwSmANtT_xSOY9_IaNv3zV9vfU9eRKn-bCkNr4-SDi2FEReVmdN1VPMnLTWQFiW1CMgUtehGNPGgqKq0skFXfSGVhmmgXIWppoipuP_2akbpbabyYqj4txerG7kcLz3tnXvBZ5aqD5BduQAtBLsOK9ro9-Vo6Wnv1sswUJ-zdPZLJSJdgY_ZL5IY9U6NcPEzTN8NX14JXpsZW_mNewi46zAz691rwroKJzPfwaaws7ciiofzxTbDv6QovgETwNPp>`_
+
+.. raw:: latex
+
+    \clearpage
+
+.. _vpp_known_issues:
+
+Known Issues
+------------
+
+Editing Note: below listed known issues need to be updated to reflect the current state as tracked on `CSIT TestFailuresTracking wiki <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/TestFailuresTracking>`_.
+
+New
+___
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+|  1 | `CSIT-1890                              | 3n-alt: Tests failing until 40Ge Interface comes up.                                                      |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1890>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Previous
+________
+
+Issues reported in previous releases which still affect the current results.
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+|  1 | `CSIT-1782                              | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface.                                          |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1782>`_ | Frequency is reduced by CSIT workaround, but occasional failures do still happen.                         |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  2 | `CSIT-1785                              | NAT44ED tests failing to establish all TCP sessions.                                                      |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1785>`_ | At least for max scale, in allotted time (limited by session 500s timeout) due to worse                   |
+|    +-----------------------------------------+ slow path performance than previously measured and calibrated for.                                        |
+|    | `VPP-1972                               | CSIT removed the max scale NAT tests to avoid this issue.                                                 |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1972>`_  |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  3 | `CSIT-1799                              | All NAT44-ED 16M sessions CPS scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range.                         |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1799>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  4 | `CSIT-1800                              | All Geneve L3 mode scale tests (1024 tunnels) are failing.                                                |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1800>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  5 | `CSIT-1801                              | 9000B payload frames not forwarded over tunnels due to violating supported Max Frame Size (VxLAN, LISP,   |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1801>`_ | SRv6).                                                                                                    |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  6 | `CSIT-1802                              | all testbeds: AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time.                                               |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1802>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  7 | `CSIT-1804                              | All testbeds: NDR tests failing from time to time.                                                        |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1804>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  8 | `CSIT-1808                              | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces.                                  |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1808>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  9 | `CSIT-1827                              | 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive        |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1827>`_ | packet loss.                                                                                              |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 10 | `CSIT-1835                              | 3n-icx: QUIC vppecho BPS tests failing on timeout when checking hoststack finished.                       |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1835>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 11 | `CSIT-1849                              | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: UDP 16m TPUT tests fail to create all sessions.                                   |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1849>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 12 | `CSIT-1864                              | 2n-clx: half of the packets lost on PDR tests.                                                            |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1864>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 13 | `CSIT-1877                              | 3n-tsh: all VM tests failing to boot VM.                                                              |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1877>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 14 | `CSIT-1883                              | 3n-snr: All hwasync wireguard tests failing when trying to verify device.                                 |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1883>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 15 | `CSIT-1884                              | 2n-clx, 2n-icx: All NAT44DET NDR PDR IMIX over 1M sessions BIDIR tests failing to create enough sessions. |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1884>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 16 | `CSIT-1885                              | 3n-icx: 9000b ip4 ip6 l2 NDRPDR AVF tests are failing to forward traffic.                                 |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1885>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 17 | `CSIT-1886                              | 3n-icx: Wireguard tests with 100 and more tunnels are failing PDR criteria.                               |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1886>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Fixed
+_____
+
+Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release:
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+|  1 | `CSIT-1868                              | 2n-clx: ALL ldpreload-nginx tests fails when trying to start nginx.                                       |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1868>`_ |                                                                                                           |
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+|  2 | `CSIT-1871                              | 3n-snr: 25GE interface between SUT and TG/TRex goes down randomly.                                        |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1871>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+.. _vpp_rca:
+
+Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
+-------------------------------------------
+
+List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
+
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+|  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                  |
++====+=========================================+====================================================================+
+|  1 | `CSIT-1887                              | rls2210 RCA: ASTF tests                                            |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1887>`_ | TRex upgrade decreased TRex performance. NAT results not affected, |
+|    |                                         | except on Denverton due to interference from VPP-2010.             |
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+|  2 | `CSIT-1888                              | rls2210 RCA: testbed differences, especially for ipsec             |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1888>`_ | Not caused by VPP code nor CSIT code.                              |
+|    |                                         | Most probable cause is clang-14 behavior.                          |
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+|  3 | `CSIT-1889                              | rls2210 RCA: policy-outbound-nocrypto                              |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1889>`_ | When VPP added spd fast path matching (Gerrit 36097),              |
+|    |                                         | it decreased MRR of the corresponding tests, at least on 3-alt.    |
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