X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Freport%2Fvpp_performance_tests%2Fcsit_release_notes.rst;h=644214c90c4e1ebede29a4069295dfa23ba956cb;hb=84ac7494ff6a2fcf3687b0866c5e69ec02f972b2;hp=08358ce89dd65fbb2d7456f50bac58969efd98bc;hpb=4d737605e8974233e6d7cf864ed9c95a7a416b91;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 08358ce89d..644214c90c 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. _vpp_performance_tests_release_notes: + Release Notes ============= @@ -6,42 +8,46 @@ Changes in |csit-release| #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS - - CSIT test environment is versioned, see - :ref:`test_environment_versioning`. - - - **GENEVE tests**: Added VPP performance tests for GENEVE tunnels. - - - See :ref:`geneve_methodology` for more details. + - **Enhanced and added VPP hoststack tests** to daily and weekly + trending including: Quic VPP Echo, UDP+TCP LD_PRELOAD iPerf3, + LD_PRELOAD NGINX. - - **NAT44 tests**: Added new test type, pure throughput tests. - They are similar to PPS tests, but they employ ramp-up trials - to ensure all sessions are created (and not timing out) - for performance trials. + - **Added Nvidia/Mellanox DPDK tests** to daily and weekly trending + and report, in addition to RDMA_CORE ones that were already + there. - - **Jumbo for ipsec**: Test cases with 9000 byte frames are re-enabled - in ipsec suites. + - **Jumbo frames tests** got fixed and re-added number of to report + coverage tests. - - **Randomized profiles**: Improved repeatability and cycle length. - For details, see :ref:`packet_flow_ordering`. - - - **AMD 2n-tx2 testbed**: New physical testbed type installed in - FD.io CSIT, with VPP and DPDK performance data added to CSIT - trending and this report. + - **Intel Xeon SKX performance testbeds** got decommissioned and + removed from FD.io performance lab. #. TEST FRAMEWORK - - **TRex ASTF**: Improved capability to run TRex in advanced stateful mode. + - **CSIT test environment** version has not changed from ver. 11 used + in previous release, see :ref:`test_environment_versioning`. - - **CSIT PAPI support**: Due to issues with PAPI performance, VAT is - still used in CSIT for all VPP scale tests. See known issues below. + - **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, - speed ups and bug fixes. + - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug + fixes. #. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER - - **Graphs improvements**: Updated Packet Latency graphs, - see :ref:`latency_methodology`. + - `Performance dashboard `_ 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 `_ + - `Speedup Multi-Core throughput graph for 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base-pdr `_ + - `MRR, NDR and PDR comparison for 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base `_ + - `Normalized throughput architecture comparison for 2n-[icx|clx]-e810cq-ip4-base-pdr `_ + - `NICs comparison for 2n-icx-ip4-base-pdr `_ .. raw:: latex @@ -52,42 +58,115 @@ Changes in |csit-release| Known Issues ------------ -List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests: +Editing Note: below listed known issues need to be updated to reflect the current state as tracked on `CSIT TestFailuresTracking wiki `_. + +New +___ + ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| # | JiraID | Issue Description | ++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+ +| 1 | `CSIT-1890 | 3n-alt: Tests failing until 40Ge Interface comes up. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + +Previous +________ + +Issues reported in previous releases which still affect the current results. +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| # | JiraID | Issue Description | +| # | JiraID | Issue Description | +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+ -| 1 | `CSIT-570 | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures on x520. DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue. | -| | `_ | Suspected issue with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed outside of LF testbeds. | +| 1 | `CSIT-1782 | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface. | +| | `_ | Frequency is reduced by CSIT workaround, but occasional failures do still happen. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 2 | `CSIT-1785 | NAT44ED tests failing to establish all TCP sessions. | +| | `_ | 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. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 3 | `CSIT-1799 | All NAT44-ED 16M sessions CPS scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 4 | `CSIT-1800 | All Geneve L3 mode scale tests (1024 tunnels) are failing. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 5 | `CSIT-1801 | 9000B payload frames not forwarded over tunnels due to violating supported Max Frame Size (VxLAN, LISP, | +| | `_ | SRv6). | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 6 | `CSIT-1802 | all testbeds: AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time. | +| | `_ | | +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 2 | `VPP-662 | 9000B packets not supported by NICs VIC1227 and VIC1387. | -| | `_ | | +| 7 | `CSIT-1804 | All testbeds: NDR tests failing from time to time. | +| | `_ | | +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 3 | `CSIT-1763 | Adapt ramp-up phase of nat44 tests for different frame sizes. | -| | `_ | Currently ramp-up phase rate and duration values are correctly set for tests with 64B frame size. | +| 8 | `CSIT-1808 | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces. | +| | `_ | | +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 4 | `CSIT-1671 | All CSIT scale tests can not use PAPI due to much slower performance compared to VAT/CLI (it takes much | -| | `_ | longer to program VPP). This needs to be addressed on the PAPI side. | -| +-----------------------------------------+ The usual PAPI library spends too much time parsing arguments, so even with async processing (hundreds of | -| | `VPP-1763 | commands in flight over socket), the VPP configuration for large scale tests (millions of messages) takes | -| | `_ | too long. | +| 9 | `CSIT-1827 | 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive | +| | `_ | packet loss. | +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 5 | `VPP-1934 | [i40e] Interfaces are not brought up from carrier-down. | -| | `_ | In case of i40e -based interface (e.g Intel x700 series NIC) is bound to kernel driver (i40e) and is in | -| | | state "no-carrier" () because previously it was disabled via | -| | | "I40E_AQ_PHY_LINK_ENABLED" call, then VPP during initialization of AVF interface is not re-enabling | -| | | interface link via i40e driver to up. | -| | | CSIT implemented `workaround for AVF interface `_ until fixed. | +| 10 | `CSIT-1835 | 3n-icx: QUIC vppecho BPS tests failing on timeout when checking hoststack finished. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 11 | `CSIT-1849 | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: UDP 16m TPUT tests fail to create all sessions. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 12 | `CSIT-1864 | 2n-clx: half of the packets lost on PDR tests. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 13 | `CSIT-1877 | 3n-tsh: all VM tests failing to boot VM. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 14 | `CSIT-1883 | 3n-snr: All hwasync wireguard tests failing when trying to verify device. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 15 | `CSIT-1884 | 2n-clx, 2n-icx: All NAT44DET NDR PDR IMIX over 1M sessions BIDIR tests failing to create enough sessions. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 16 | `CSIT-1885 | 3n-icx: 9000b ip4 ip6 l2 NDRPDR AVF tests are failing to forward traffic. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 17 | `CSIT-1886 | 3n-icx: Wireguard tests with 100 and more tunnels are failing PDR criteria. | +| | `_ | | +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes -------------------------------------------- +Fixed +_____ -List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes: +Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release: +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| # | JiraID | Issue Description | +| # | JiraID | Issue Description | +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+ -| 1 | | | -| | | | +| 1 | `CSIT-1868 | 2n-clx: ALL ldpreload-nginx tests fails when trying to start nginx. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 2 | `CSIT-1871 | 3n-snr: 25GE interface between SUT and TG/TRex goes down randomly. | +| | `_ | | +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + +.. _vpp_rca: + +Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes +------------------------------------------- + +List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes: + ++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| # | JiraID | Issue Description | ++====+=========================================+====================================================================+ +| 1 | `CSIT-1887 | rls2210 RCA: ASTF tests | +| | `_ | TRex upgrade decreased TRex performance. NAT results not affected, | +| | | except on Denverton due to interference from VPP-2010. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 2 | `CSIT-1888 | rls2210 RCA: testbed differences, especially for ipsec | +| | `_ | Not caused by VPP code nor CSIT code. | +| | | Most probable cause is clang-14 behavior. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 3 | `CSIT-1889 | rls2210 RCA: policy-outbound-nocrypto | +| | `_ | When VPP added spd fast path matching (Gerrit 36097), | +| | | it decreased MRR of the corresponding tests, at least on 3-alt. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+