X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Freport%2Fvpp_performance_tests%2Fcsit_release_notes.rst;h=87394cef98354a9cf119359b062a9c8cdd49a9a1;hb=7a1d31543b8424bb67b4d610bd9c8e17a58fd0f4;hp=a54d25b7076c5e510c19d903af0e18b69ae3b3cb;hpb=f8a74509fe70a49a6152293e4e5add0d24dc6d1a;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 a54d25b707..87394cef98 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 ============= @@ -6,83 +8,40 @@ Changes in |csit-release| #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS - - **BMRR Throughput**: MRR (Maximum Receive Rate) test code has been - updated with a configurable burst MRR parameters: trial duration - and number of trials in a single burst. Enables a new Burst MRR - (BMRR for short) methodology for more precise performance - trending. See updated :ref:`performance_test_methodology` section - for more details. - - - **2n-skx tests**: Added performamce tests for 2n-skx (2-Node Xeon - Skylake) testbeds: focus on baseline and scale tests, including - VM vhost and Container memif tests. - - - **3n-skx tests**: Added performamce tests for 3n-skx (3-Node Xeon - Skylake) testbeds: VM vhost and Container memif 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. - - **VXLAN Scale Tests**: Added performamce tests for VXLAN scale with - dot1q and VPP L2BD. + - **Added GTPU HW offload tests** for Intel e810 4p25ge NICs on 2n-icx + testbeds. - - **AVF Driver Tests**: Added performamce tests for i40e AVF driver - on VPP, no DPDK required. + - **Added Wireguard tests** for VPP software path (3n-icx, 3n-snr + testbeds) and with built-in HW crypto QAT device (3n-snr testbed + only). - - **QAT**: Fixed reoccuring issues with QAT crypto accelerator cards. - - - **VM Vhost Virtio Params Combinations**: Added performance tests - for VM vhost with different virtio parameters combinations: - indirect buffers, mergeable buffers. - - - **K8s/Ligato in Trending**: Added K8s/Ligato Container memif tests - to daily trending. + - **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 - - **Experimental Soak Tests**: Added performamce soak tests framework - code for extended time duration tests and throughput discovery - at given PLR and at give total test time e.g. minutes, hours, - days, weeks, months, years. See updated - :ref:`performance_test_methodology` section for more details. - - - **Trending Tests BMRR**: Used new Burst MRR (BMRR) tests for daily - trending. + - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 11, see + :ref:`test_environment_versioning`. - - **Per VPP Patch Performance Checks**: Per VPP gerrit patch vs. - parent performance tests, anomaly detection and no verify voting - (-1/0/+1) yet. Manual trigger only. Not "marketed" to FD.io - community yet to avoid excessive LFN FD.io physical performance - testbed blocking. + - **TCP tput profiles** have to be changed, as newer TRex versions + are not deterministic enough when deciding when to send an ACK. - - **Patch-on-Patch Infra**: Added capability to run performance tests - using CSIT gerrit patch code testing VPP gerrit patch code, i.e. - before any VPP and/or CSIT code is merged into git branch. + - **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`. - - **CSIT PAPI Support**: Initial implementation of PAPI L1 KWs in - CSIT using VPP Python bindings. Required for migraing away from - VAT. Very few L1 KWs implemented ("show version", "show - interfaces"). - - - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing RF keywords optimizations, - removal of redundant RF keywords. + - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug + fixes. #. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER - - **Graphs Layout Improvements**: Improved performance graphs layout - for better readibility and maintenance: test grouping, axis - labels, descriptions, other informative decoration. Master report - generated. 744 graphs(!) - - - - **Performance Trending**: Further improvements of continuous - performance trending, anomaly detection and analysis. - -#. MISCELLANEOUS - - - **3n-dnv Tests (3rd Party)**: Published performance tests for 3n- - dnv (3-Node Atom Denverton) from 3rd party testbeds running FD.io - |csit-release| automated testing code. - Only graphs for Packet Throughput and Speedup Multi-core and not - for Packet Latency were published as there are no results for Packet - Latency available. + - **C-Dash** `performance dashboard `_ got updated UI and + updated backend increasing its performance and robustness. .. raw:: latex @@ -93,24 +52,114 @@ Changes in |csit-release| Known Issues ------------ -List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests: - -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| # | 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. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 2 | `CSIT-1234 | VPP IPSecHW scale interface mode 1core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-hsw testbeds, in CSIT-18.07 vs. CSIT-18.04. | -| | `_ | ip4ipsecscale1000tnl-ip4base-int 1core CSIT-18.07/18.04 relative change: NDR -31%, PDR -32%, MRR -38%. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 3 | `CSIT-1242 | VPP xl710 ip4base test 1core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-hsw testbeds, in CSIT-18.07 vs. CSIT-18.04. | -| | `_ | xl710 ip4base 1core CSIT-18.07/18.04 relative change: NDR -29%, high stdev. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 4 | `CSIT-1243 | VPP nat44 base test 2core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-skx testbeds, compared to 3n-hsw testbeds. | -| | `_ | ip4base-nat44 2core 3n-skx/3n-hsw relative change: NDR -19%, PDR -22%. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 5 | `CSIT-1246 | Ligato K8S orchestrated tests are failing due to incompatibility of the latest released Ligato vpp-agent with VPP-18.07. | -| | `_ | Past vpp-agent releases are not compatible either. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ - +New +___ + ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| # | JiraID | Issue Description | ++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+ +| 1 | `CSIT-1850 | 2n-dnv: sporadic 1518B tput tests failing to establish required sessions. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 2 | `CSIT-1864 | 2n-clx: half of the packets lost on PDR tests. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 3 | `CSIT-1871 | 3n-snr: 25Ge Interface goes down randomly. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 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. | +| +-----------------------------------------+ 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. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 6 | `CSIT-1801 | 9000B payload frames not forwarded over tunnels due to violating supported Max Frame Size (VxLAN, LISP, | +| | `_ | SRv6). | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 7 | `CSIT-1802 | AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 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. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + +Fixed +_____ + +Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release: + ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| # | JiraID | Issue Description | ++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+ +| 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. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+