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+.. _vpp_performance_tests_release_notes:
+
Release Notes
=============
@@ -6,55 +8,40 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
#. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
- - CSIT test environment is versioned, see
- :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
-
- - To identify performance changes due to VPP code changes from
- v20.05.0 to v20.09.0, both have been tested in CSIT environment
- ver. 5 and compared against each other. All substantial
- progressions has been marked up with RCA analysis. See
- :ref:`vpp_compare_current_vs_previous_release` and
- :ref:`vpp_known_issues`.
-
- - **NAT44 tests**: Adapted existing and added new tests.
-
- - Refactored NAT44 deterministic mode (nat44det) tests to use separate
- det44 vpp plugin and to use the same scheme of inside and outside
- addresses and ports, as used in new NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode tests.
+ - **Added new performance testbed 3n-snr** (3 Node SnowRidge, with Intel
+ Atom processors), to later replace 3n-dnv and 2n-dnv (3 and 2 Node
+ Denverton) testbeds.
- - Added new NAT44 endpoint-depended mode uni-directional (nat44ed-udir)
- tests that measure packet throughput in one direction with usage of TRex
- in stateless mode.
+ - **Added GTPU HW offload tests** for Intel e810 4p25ge NICs on 2n-icx
+ testbeds.
- - Added new NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode CPS tests that measure
- connections per second with usage of TRex in stateful mode.
- NOTE: CPS measurement data will be added in two weeks.
+ - **Added Wireguard tests** using VPP software crypto (3n-icx, 3n-snr
+ testbeds) and using built-in hardware crypto QAT device (3n-snr testbed
+ only).
- - **IPSec async mode tests**: Added VPP performance tests for async crypto
- engine.
-
- - **AMD 2n-zn2 testbed**: New physical testbed type installed in FD.io CSIT,
- VPP performance data will be added in upcoming weeks.
+ - **Reduction of tests**: Removed certain test variations executed
+ iteratively for the report (as well as in daily and weekly
+ trending) due to physical testbeds overload.
#. TEST FRAMEWORK
- - **TRex ASTF**: Added capability to run TRex in advanced stateful mode.
+ - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 11, 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.
+ - **TCP tput profiles** have to be changed, as newer TRex versions
+ are not deterministic enough when deciding when to send an ACK.
- - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing RF keywords optimizations,
- removal of redundant RF keywords and aligning of suite/test
- setup/teardowns.
+ - **CSIT PAPI support**: Due to issues with PAPI performance, and
+ deprecation of VAT, VPP CLI is used in CSIT for many VPP scale
+ tests. See :ref:`vpp_known_issues`.
- - **Intel E810CQ 100G NIC**: Added configuration for Intel E810CQ 100G NIC.
- No tests run for this NIC as it is not present in FD.io CSIT lab yet.
+ - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug
+ fixes.
#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
- - **Graphs improvements**: Added possibility to use Gbps on Y-axis in
- Packet Throughput and Speedup Multi-Core graphs, added unidirectional
- mode to the Latency graphs.
+ - **C-Dash** `performance dashboard `_ got updated UI and
+ updated backend increasing its performance and robustness.
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@@ -65,48 +52,114 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
Known Issues
------------
-List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests:
+New
+___
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| # | 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-1850 | 2n-dnv: sporadic 1518B tput tests failing to establish required sessions. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 2 | `VPP-662 | 9000B packets not supported by NICs VIC1227 and VIC1387. |
-| | `_ | |
+| 2 | `CSIT-1864 | 2n-clx: half of the packets lost on PDR tests. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 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. |
+| 3 | `CSIT-1871 | 3n-snr: 25Ge Interface goes down randomly. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 4 | `CSIT-1671 | All CSIT scale tests can not use PAPI due to much slower performance compared to VAT/CLI (it takes much |
+| 4 | `CSIT-1877 | 3n-alt, 3n-tsh: VM tests failing to boot VM. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Previous
+________
+
+Issues reported in previous releases which still affect the current results.
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+| 1 | `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. |
+| +-----------------------------------------+ Currently, the time critical code uses VAT running large files with exec statements and CLI commands. |
+| | `VPP-1763 | Still, we needed to reduce the number of scale tests run to keep overall duration reasonable. |
+| | `_ | More improvements needed to achieve sufficient configuration speed. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `CSIT-1782 | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface. |
+| | `_ | Frequency is reduced by CSIT workaround, but occasional failures do still happen. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `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. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 4 | `CSIT-1799 | All NAT44-ED 16M scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 5 | `CSIT-1800 | All Geneve L3 mode scale tests (1024 tunnels) are failing. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 5 | `VPP-1675 | IPv4 IPSEC 9000B packet tests are failing as no packet is forwarded. |
-| | `_ | Reason: chained buffers are not supported. |
+| 6 | `CSIT-1801 | 9000B payload frames not forwarded over tunnels due to violating supported Max Frame Size (VxLAN, LISP, |
+| | `_ | SRv6). |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 6 | `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. |
+| 7 | `CSIT-1802 | AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 7 | `CSIT-1760 | All Mellanox / rdma driver tests are failing on LF testbed28 while successfully run on other LF testbeds. |
-| | `_ | |
+| 8 | `CSIT-1804 | All testbeds: NDR tests failing from time to time. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 9 | `CSIT-1808 | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 10 | `CSIT-1827 | 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive |
+| | `_ | packet loss. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 11 | `CSIT-1835 | 3n-icx: vppecho BPS tests failing on timeout when checking hoststack finished. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 12 | `CSIT-1849 | 2n-skx, 2n-clx: UDP 16m tput tests fail to create all sessions. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-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-1834 | 2n-icx, 2n-skx: sporadic AVF soak tests failing to find critical load with PLRsearch. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `CSIT-1846 | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: ALL 1518B TCP tput tests failing with big packet loss. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `CSIT-1851 | trending regression: various icelake tests around 2202-04-15 |
+| | `_ | Somewhat expected consequence of a VPP usability fix, |
+| | | the previous VPP compiler version was too new for the OS used. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+.. _vpp_rca:
+
+Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
+-------------------------------------------
+
+List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+=====================================================================================+
+| 1 | `VPP-2030 | regression: ip6base on ICX around 2022-03-23 |
+| | `_ | "Loads blocked due to overlapping with a preceding store that cannot be forwarded." |
+| | | started happening in ip6-lookup graph node. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `CSIT-1852 | 2n-zn2 mellanox performance cap |
+| | `_ | Old issue, only now distinguished from CSIT-1751. |
+| | | This testbed+nic combination is capped below 28 Mpps, cause not identified yet. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `CSIT-1853 | trending regression: nat44ed cps around 2202-04-01 |
+| | `_ | VPP change added more computation to slow path (in order to support multiple VRFs). |
+| | | Not clear if the VPP implementation is optimized enough. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+