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=c9e62e841584b970585db48d8d2c677af3d254fc;hpb=bbcaa22c4425c32c3e3d2bcde434cdefc6b9a992;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 c9e62e8415..1c1bce17b3 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -49,36 +49,16 @@ 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; @@ -99,24 +79,68 @@ 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 ------------------------- @@ -131,20 +155,63 @@ 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. | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+