X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Freport%2Fvpp_performance_tests%2Fcsit_release_notes.rst;h=8f9586a8a0fc62dfee0fa6747b880c897a07f4ef;hb=84ac7494ff6a2fcf3687b0866c5e69ec02f972b2;hp=69444d2a3a242b2a88946a1f0d107389a06c3f92;hpb=737fbd3341638e90478979779b5ee6c0b0bf5c39;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 69444d2a3a..644214c90c 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -1,209 +1,172 @@ -CSIT Release Notes -================== - -Changes in CSIT |release| -------------------------- - -#. Added VPP performance tests - - - **Linux Container VPP memif tests** - - - Tests with VPP in L2 Bridge-Domain configuration connecting over - memif virtual interfaces to VPPs running in LXCs; - - - **Docker Container VPP memif tests** - - - Tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect configuration connecting over - memif virtual interfaces VPPs running in Docker containers; - - - **Container Topologies Orchestrated by K8s with VPP memif tests** - - - Tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect and Bridge-Domain configurations - connecting over memif virtual interfaces VPPs running in Docker - containers, with service chain topologies orchestrated by Kubernetes; - - - **Stateful Security Groups** - - - m-thread m-core VPP stateful and stateless security-groups tests; - - - **MAC-IP binding** - - - MACIP input access-lists, 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|. Performance numbers since release -VPP-16.09 are provided for reference. - -NDR Throughput -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests: - -.. 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%: - -.. 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-17.10 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. - -NDR Throughput -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests: - -.. 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%: - -.. 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 ------------- - -Here is the list of known issues in CSIT |release| for VPP performance tests: - -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| # | Issue | Jira ID | Description | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 1 | Vic1385 and Vic1227 low performance. | VPP-664 | Low NDR performance. | -| | | | | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 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. | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 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. | | | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 4 | Lower than expected NDR 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. | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ - +.. _vpp_performance_tests_release_notes: + +Release Notes +============= + +Changes in |csit-release| +------------------------- + +#. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS + + - **Enhanced and added VPP hoststack tests** to daily and weekly + trending including: Quic VPP Echo, UDP+TCP LD_PRELOAD iPerf3, + LD_PRELOAD NGINX. + + - **Added Nvidia/Mellanox DPDK tests** to daily and weekly trending + and report, in addition to RDMA_CORE ones that were already + there. + + - **Jumbo frames tests** got fixed and re-added number of to report + coverage tests. + + - **Intel Xeon SKX performance testbeds** got decommissioned and + removed from FD.io performance lab. + +#. TEST FRAMEWORK + + - **CSIT test environment** version has not changed from ver. 11 used + in previous release, see :ref:`test_environment_versioning`. + + - **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 and bug + fixes. + +#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER + + - `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 + + \clearpage + +.. _vpp_known_issues: + +Known Issues +------------ + +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 | ++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+ +| 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. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 7 | `CSIT-1804 | All testbeds: NDR tests failing from time to time. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 8 | `CSIT-1808 | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 9 | `CSIT-1827 | 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive | +| | `_ | packet loss. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 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. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + +Fixed +_____ + +Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release: + ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| # | JiraID | Issue Description | ++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+ +| 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. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+