X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Freport%2Fvpp_performance_tests%2Fcsit_release_notes.rst;h=1c1bce17b30d72438c8ba1527b3a1c7d760b564f;hb=refs%2Fchanges%2F96%2F9096%2F2;hp=0ee3e82f59412f510e0d656a837994c955832437;hpb=1e2bf354994a7ec53c1acee2d1c2fe2208f7c905;p=csit.git diff --git a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst index 0ee3e82f59..1c1bce17b3 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -6,18 +6,18 @@ Changes in CSIT |release| #. Test environment changes in VPP data plane performance tests: - - Further characterization and optimizations of VPP vhost-user and VM - test methodology and test environment; + - Further characterization and optimizations of VPP vhost-user and VM test + methodology and test environment; - Tests with varying Qemu virtio queue (a.k.a. vring) sizes: [vr256] default 256 descriptors, [vr1024] 1024 descriptors to optimize for packet throughput; - - Tests with varying Linux CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) - settings: [cfs] default settings, [cfsrr1] CFS RoundRobin(1) - policy applied to all data plane threads handling test packet - path including all VPP worker threads and all Qemu testpmd - poll-mode threads; + - Tests with varying Linux :abbr:`CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler)` + settings: [cfs] default settings, [cfsrr1] :abbr:`CFS (Completely Fair + Scheduler)` RoundRobin(1) policy applied to all data plane threads + handling test packet path including all VPP worker threads and all Qemu + testpmd poll-mode threads; - Resulting test cases are all combinations with [vr256,vr1024] and [cfs,cfsrr1] settings; @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ Changes in CSIT |release| #. Code updates and optimizations in CSIT performance framework: - Complete CSIT framework code revision and optimizations as descried - on CSIT wiki page - `Design_Optimizations `_. + on CSIT wiki page `Design_Optimizations + `_. - For more detail see the :ref:`CSIT Framework Design ` section in this report; @@ -49,102 +49,169 @@ Changes in CSIT |release| - **Linux Container VPP memif virtual interface tests** - - VPP Memif virtual interface (shared memory interface) tests - interconnecting VPP instances over memif. VPP vswitch - instance runs in bare-metal user-mode handling Intel x520 NIC - 10GbE interfaces and connecting over memif (Master side) virtual - interfaces to another instance of VPP running in bare-metal Linux - Container (LXC) with memif virtual interfaces (Slave side). LXC - runs in a priviliged mode with VPP data plane worker threads - pinned to dedicated physical CPU cores per usual CSIT practice. - Both VPP run the same version of software. This test topology is - equivalent to existing tests with vhost-user and VMs. + - New VPP Memif virtual interface (shared memory interface) tests + with L2 Bridge-Domain switched-forwarding; - **Stateful Security Groups** - - New tests of VPP stateful security-groups a.k.a. acl-plugin - functionally compatible with networking-vpp OpenStack; + - New m-thread m-core VPP stateful security-groups tests; - - New tested security-groups access-control-lists (acl) - configuration variants include: [iaclNsl] input acl stateless, - [oaclNsl] output acl stateless, [iaclNsf] input acl stateful - a.k.a. reflect, [oaclNsf] output acl stateful a.k.a. reflect, - where N is number of access-control-entries (ace) in the acl. + - **MAC-IP binding** - - Testing packet flows transmitted by TG: 100, 10k, 100k, always - hitting the last permit entry in acl. - - - **VPP vhost and VM tests** - - - New VPP vhost-user and VM test cases to benchmark performance of - VPP and VM topologies with Qemu and CFS policy combinations of - [vr256,vr1024] x [cfs,cfsrr1]; + - New MACIP iACL single-thread single-core and m-thread m-core tests; - Statistical analysis of repeatibility of results; Performance Improvements ------------------------ -Substantial improvements in measured packet throughput have been -observed in a number of CSIT |release| tests listed below, with relative -increase of double-digit percentage points. Relative improvements for -this release are calculated against the test results listed in CSIT -|release-1| report. The comparison is calculated between the mean values -based on collected and archived test results' samples for involved VPP -releases. Standard deviation has been also listed for CSIT |release|. -VPP-16.09 and VPP-17.01 numbers are provided for reference. +Substantial improvements in measured packet throughput have been observed in a +number of CSIT |release| tests listed below, with relative increase of +double-digit percentage points. Relative improvements for this release are +calculated against the test results listed in CSIT |release-1| report. The +comparison is calculated between the mean values based on collected and +archived test results' samples for involved VPP releases. Standard deviation +has been also listed for CSIT |release|. VPP-16.09 and VPP-17.01 numbers are +provided for reference. NDR Throughput ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests: -.. csv-table:: - :align: center - :header: VPP Functionality,Test Name,VPP-16.09 [Mpps],VPP-17.01 [Mpps],VPP-17.04 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 stdev [Mpps],17.04 to 17.07 change - :file: ../../../docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/ndr_throughput.csv +.. only:: html + + .. csv-table:: + :align: center + :file: performance_improvements/performance_improvements_ndr_top.csv + +.. only:: latex + + .. raw:: latex + + \makeatletter + \csvset{ + 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}, + } + \makeatother + + {\tiny + \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma, + respect all, + no check column count, + perfimprovements column width=1cm, + late after line={\\\hline}, + late after last line={\end{longtable}} + ]{../_tmp/src/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/performance_improvements_ndr_top.csv} + } + PDR Throughput ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%: -.. csv-table:: - :align: center - :header: VPP Functionality,Test Name,VPP-16.09 [Mpps],VPP-17.01 [Mpps],VPP-17.04 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 stdev [Mpps],17.04 to 17.07 change - :file: ../../../docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/pdr_throughput.csv +.. only:: html + + .. csv-table:: + :align: center + :file: performance_improvements/performance_improvements_pdr_top.csv + +.. only:: latex + + .. raw:: latex + + \makeatletter + \csvset{ + 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}, + } + \makeatother + + {\tiny + \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma, + respect all, + no check column count, + perfimprovements column width=1cm, + late after line={\\\hline}, + late after last line={\end{longtable}} + ]{../_tmp/src/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/performance_improvements_pdr_top.csv} + } + Measured improvements are in line with VPP code optimizations listed in -`VPP-17.07 release notes -`_. +`VPP-17.10 release notes +`_. Other Performance Changes ------------------------- -Other changes in measured packet throughput, with either minor relative -increase or decrease, have been observed in a number of CSIT |release| -tests listed below. Relative changes are calculated against the test -results listed in CSIT |release-1| report. +Other changes in measured packet throughput, with either minor relative increase +or decrease, have been observed in a number of CSIT |release| tests listed +below. Relative changes are calculated against the test results listed in CSIT +|release-1| report. NDR Throughput ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests: -.. csv-table:: - :align: center - :header: VPP Functionality,Test Name,VPP-16.09 [Mpps],VPP-17.01 [Mpps],VPP-17.04 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 stdev [Mpps],17.04 to 17.07 change - :file: ../../../docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/ndr_throughput_others.csv +.. only:: html + + .. csv-table:: + :align: center + :file: performance_improvements/performance_improvements_ndr_low.csv + +.. only:: latex + + .. raw:: latex + + \makeatletter + \csvset{ + 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}, + } + \makeatother + + {\tiny + \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma, + respect all, + no check column count, + perfimprovements column width=1cm, + late after line={\\\hline}, + late after last line={\end{longtable}} + ]{../_tmp/src/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/performance_improvements_ndr_low.csv} + } + PDR Throughput ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%: -.. csv-table:: - :align: center - :header: VPP Functionality,Test Name,VPP-16.09 [Mpps],VPP-17.01 [Mpps],VPP-17.04 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 stdev [Mpps],17.04 to 17.07 change - :file: ../../../docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/pdr_throughput_others.csv +.. only:: html + + .. csv-table:: + :align: center + :file: performance_improvements/performance_improvements_pdr_low.csv + +.. only:: latex + + .. raw:: latex + + \makeatletter + \csvset{ + 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}, + } + \makeatother + + {\tiny + \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma, + respect all, + no check column count, + perfimprovements column width=1cm, + late after line={\\\hline}, + late after last line={\end{longtable}} + ]{../_tmp/src/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/performance_improvements_pdr_low.csv} + } Known Issues @@ -155,27 +222,17 @@ Here is the list of known issues in CSIT |release| for VPP performance tests: +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | # | Issue | Jira ID | Description | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 1 | Security-groups acl-plugin scale tests failure | CSIT-731 | VPP with 2 worker threads crashes during security-groups | -| | with stateful acls if VPP with 2 worker threads | VPP-912 | iaclNsf and oaclNsf tests with 100k flows. | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 2 | VPP fails memif tests in 4 worker 2 core setup | CSIT-732 | VPP with 4 worker threads running on 2 physical cores crashes | -| | | VPP-920 | during memif tests. Initial debugging points to DPDK code | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 3 | NDR discovery test failures 1518B frame size | VPP-663 | VPP reporting errors: dpdk-input Rx ip checksum errors. | -| | for ip4scale200k, ip4scale2m scale IPv4 routed- | | Observed frequency: all test runs. | -| | forwarding tests. ip4scale20k tests are fine. | | | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 4 | Vic1385 and Vic1227 low performance. | VPP-664 | Low NDR performance. | +| 1 | Vic1385 and Vic1227 low performance. | VPP-664 | Low NDR performance. | | | | | | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 5 | Sporadic NDR discovery test failures on x520. | CSIT-750 | Suspected issue with HW settings (BIOS, FW) in LF | +| 2 | Sporadic NDR discovery test failures on x520. | CSIT-750 | Suspected issue with HW settings (BIOS, FW) in LF | | | | | infrastructure. Issue can't be replicated outside LF. | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 6 | VPP in 2t2c setups - large variation | CSIT-568 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR | +| 3 | VPP in 2t2c setups - large variation | CSIT-568 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR | | | of discovered NDR throughput values across | | throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs, x520 NICs are fine. | | | multiple test runs with xl710 and x710 NICs. | | | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 7 | Lower than expected NDR and PDR throughput with | CSIT-569 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR and | +| 4 | Lower than expected NDR and PDR throughput with | CSIT-569 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR and | | | xl710 and x710 NICs, compared to x520 NICs. | | PDR throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs. | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+