Overview
========
+VPP performance test results are reported for a range of processors.
For description of physical testbeds used for VPP performance tests
please refer to :ref:`tested_physical_topologies`.
- One-Way Packet Latency: measured at different offered packet loads:
- - 100% of discovered NDR throughput.
- - 100% of discovered PDR throughput.
+ - 90% of discovered PDR throughput.
+ - 50% of discovered PDR throughput.
+ - 10% of discovered PDR throughput.
+ - Minimal offered load.
- Maximum Receive Rate (MRR): measure packet forwarding rate under the
maximum load offered by traffic generator over a set trial duration,
regardless of packet loss. Maximum load for specified Ethernet frame
- size is set to the bi-directional link rate.
+ size is set to the bi-directional link rate, unless there is a known
+ limitation preventing Traffic Generator from achieving the line rate.
-|csit-release| includes following performance test areas covered across
-a range of NIC drivers and NIC models:
+.. todo::
+
+ - Connections per second (CPS): TODO
+
+|csit-release| includes following VPP data plane functionality
+performance tested across a range of NIC drivers and NIC models:
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
-| Test Area | Description |
+| Functionality | Description |
+=======================+==============================================+
| ACL | L2 Bridge-Domain switching and |
| | IPv4and IPv6 routing with iACL and oACL IP |
| | address, MAC address and L4 port security. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
-| COP | IPv4 and IPv6 routing with COP address |
+| ADL | IPv4 and IPv6 routing with ADL address |
| | security. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
+| GENEVE | GENEVE tunnels for IPv4 routing. |
++-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| IPv4 | IPv4 routing. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| IPv6 | IPv6 routing. |
| IPv6 Scale | IPv6 routing with 20k, 200k and 2M FIB |
| | entries. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
-| IPSecHW | IPSec encryption with AES-GCM, CBC-SHA1 |
+| IPSecAsyncHW | IPSec encryption with AES-GCM, CBC-SHA-256 |
+| | ciphers in async mode, in combination with |
+| | IPv4 routing. Intel QAT HW acceleration. |
++-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
+| IPSecHW | IPSec encryption with AES-GCM, CBC-SHA-256 |
| | ciphers, in combination with IPv4 routing. |
| | Intel QAT HW acceleration. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| | combination with LISP-GPE overlay tunneling |
| | for IPv4-over-IPv4. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
-| IPSecSW | IPSec encryption with AES-GCM, CBC-SHA1 |
+| IPSecSW | IPSec encryption with AES-GCM, CBC-SHA-256 |
| | ciphers, in combination with IPv4 routing. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
-| K8s Containers Memif | K8s orchestrated container VPP service chain |
-| | topologies connected over the memif virtual |
-| | interface. |
-+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| KVM VMs vhost-user | Virtual topologies with service |
-| | chains of 1 and 2 VMs using vhost-user |
+| | chains of 1 VM using vhost-user |
| | interfaces, with different VPP forwarding |
| | modes incl. L2XC, L2BD, VXLAN with L2BD, |
| | IPv4 routing. |
| Memif | with different VPP forwarding modes incl. |
| | L2XC, L2BD. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
-| NAT | (Source) Network Address Translation tests |
-| | with varying number of users and ports per |
-| | user. |
+| NAT44 | (Source) Network Address Translation |
+| | deterministic mode and endpoint-dependent |
+| | mode tests with varying number of users and |
+| | ports per user for IPv4. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| QoS Policer | Ingress packet rate measuring, marking and |
| | limiting (IPv4). |
| VPP TCP/IP stack | Tests of VPP TCP/IP stack used with VPP |
| | built-in HTTP server. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
+| VTS | Virtual Topology System use case tests |
+| | combining VXLAN overlay tunneling with L2BD, |
+| | ACL and KVM VM vhost-user features. |
++-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| VXLAN | VXLAN overlay tunnelling integration with |
| | L2XC and L2BD. |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+