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+.. _vpp_performance_tests_release_notes:
+
Release Notes
=============
-Changes in CSIT |release|
+Changes in |csit-release|
-------------------------
-#. **VPP performance tests**
-
- - *MRR tests* - New Maximum Receive Rate tests measure the packet
- forwarding rate under the maximum load offered by traffic
- generator over a set trial duration, regardless of packet loss.
- MRR tests are used for continuous performance trending and for
- comparison between releases.
-
- - *Service Chaining with SRv6* - New SRv6 (Segment Routing IPv6) proxy
- tests measure performance of SRv6 Endpoint fronting SR-unaware
- appliance via masquerading (End.AM), dynamic proxy (End.AD) or
- static proxy (End.AS) SR functions.
-
-#. **Presentation and Analytics Layer**
-
- - *Performance trending* - Added continuous performance trending and
- analysis. New Performance Trending and Performance Analysis jobs
- executed regular throughput tests, with results being subsequently
- analysed and trend and anomalies summarized and presented in VPP
- Performance Dashboard and trendline graphs.
-
-#. **Test Framework Optimizations**
-
- - *Performance tests efficiency* - Qemu build/install optimizations,
- warmup phase handling, vpp restart handling. Resulted in improved
- stability and reduced total execution time by 30% for single pkt
- size e.g. 64B/78B.
-
- - *General code housekeeping* - ongoing RF keywords optimizations,
- removal of redundant RF keywords.
-
-Performance Changes
--------------------
-
-Relative performance changes in measured packet throughput in CSIT
-|release| are calculated against the results from CSIT |release-1|
-report. Listed mean and standard deviation values are computed based on
-a series of the same tests executed against respective VPP releases to
-verify test results repeatibility, with percentage change calculated for
-mean values. Note that the standard deviation is quite high for a small
-number of packet throughput tests, what indicates poor test results
-repeatability and makes the relative change of mean throughput value not
-fully representative for these tests. The root causes behind poor
-results repeatibility vary between the test cases.
-
-NDR Changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-NDR small packet throughput changes between releases are available in a
-CSV and pretty ASCII formats:
-
- - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-ndr.csv>`_,
- - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-ndr.csv>`_,
- - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-ndr.txt>`_,
- - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-ndr.txt>`_.
-
-.. note::
-
- Test results have been generated by
- `FD.io test executor vpp performance jobs`_ with Robot Framework result
- files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_.
-
-PDR Changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-NDR small packet throughput changes between releases are available in a
-CSV and pretty ASCII formats:
-
- - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-pdr.csv>`_,
- - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-pdr.csv>`_,
- - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-pdr.txt>`_,
- - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-pdr.txt>`_.
-
-.. note::
-
- Test results have been generated by
- `FD.io test executor vpp performance jobs`_ with Robot Framework result
- files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_.
-
-MRR Changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~
+#. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
-MRR small packet throughput changes between releases are available in a
-CSV and pretty ASCII formats:
+ - CSIT test environment is versioned, see
+ :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
- - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-mrr.csv>`_,
- - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-mrr.csv>`_,
- - `csv format for 4t4c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-4t4c-mrr.csv>`_,
- - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-mrr.txt>`_,
- - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-mrr.txt>`_,
- - `pretty ASCII format for 4t4c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-4t4c-mrr.txt>`_.
+ - **Upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS**: Reinstall base operating system to
+ Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. Upgrade includes also baseline Docker
+ containers used for spawning topology.
-.. note::
+ - Initial test data for Intel Xeon Ice Lake platforms. Current
+ CSIT-2106 report data for Intel Xeon Ice Lake comes from an
+ external source (Intel labs running CSIT code on 8360Y D Stepping
+ and 6338N processors). For detail about the physical setup
+ see :ref:`tested_physical_topologies`. Tested VPP and CSIT
+ versions are pre-release, VPP 21.06-rc0~779-gd640ae52f.
- Test results have been generated by
- `FD.io test executor vpp mrr jobs `_
- with Robot Framework result files csit-vpp-perf-mrr-daily-master__*__output.xml.gz
- `archived here `_.
+ - **AF_XDP**: Added af_xdp driver testing for all testcases.
-Comparison Across Testbeds
---------------------------
+ - **GTPU tunnel**: Added GTPU HW Offload IPv4 routing tests.
-.. warning::
+ - **Telemetry retouch**: Redesign telemetry retrieval from DUT.
+ Include VPP perfmon plugin telemetry.
- TODO: Add:
+#. TEST FRAMEWORK
- Table 1.
- Test Case 3-Node Hsw 3-Node Skx Skx vs. Hsw Delta [%]
+ - **CSIT PAPI support**: Due to issues with PAPI performance, VAT is
+ still used in CSIT for all VPP scale tests. See known issues below.
- Table 2.
- Test Case 3-Node Skx 2-Node Skx 2-Node vs. 3-Node Delta [%]
+ - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations,
+ speed ups and bug fixes.
-Throughput Trending
--------------------
+#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
-In addition to reporting throughput changes between VPP releases, CSIT
-provides continuous performance trending for VPP master branch:
+ - **Graphs improvements**: Updated Packet Latency graphs,
+ see :ref:`latency_methodology`.
-#. `VPP Performance Dashboard `_
- - per VPP test case throughput trend, trend compliance and summary of
- detected anomalies.
+.. raw:: latex
-#. `Trending Methodology `_
- - throughput test metrics, trend calculations and anomaly
- classification (progression, regression, outlier).
+ \clearpage
-#. `Trendline Graphs `_
- - per VPP build MRR throughput measurements against the trendline
- with anomaly highlights, with associated CSIT test jobs.
+.. _vpp_known_issues:
Known Issues
------------
-List of known issues in CSIT |release| for VPP performance tests:
-
-+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
-| # | Issue | Jira ID | Description |
-+===+=================================================+============+=================================================================+
-| 1 | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures | CSIT-570 | DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue. Suspected issue |
-| | on x520. | | with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed |
-| | | | outside of LF testbeds. |
-+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 2 | Lower than expected NDR throughput of DPDK | CSIT-571 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR and |
-| | testpmd and VPP L2 path NDR throughput with | | PDR throughput on XL710 and X710 NICs. |
-| | xl710 and x710 NICs, compared to x520 NICs. | | |
-+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 3 | Tagged Ethernet dot1q and dot1ad L2 path | CSIT-1066 | Tagged Ethernet dot1q and dot1ad L2 path throughput regression: |
-| | throughput regression. | | NDR -2%..-5%, PDR -2%..-6%, MRR. Affects l2xc and l2bd |
-| | | | performance tests. |
-+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 4 | IPSec (software, no QAT HW) throughput | CSIT-1064 | IPSec throughput regression: NDR -3%..-8%, PDR -2%..-8%, MRR |
-| | regression. | | -3%..-7%. Affects IPSec SW tests, QAT HW tests not affected. |
-+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 5 | High failure rate of creating working container | CSIT-1065 | About 20% of orchestrated container topology tests failing data |
-| | topologies with K8s/Ligato orchestration. | | plane verification indicating configuration issue. Suspected |
-| | | | issue with Ligato vpp-agent. |
-+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
+List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests:
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+| 1 | `CSIT-1782 | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `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-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. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
+-------------------------------------------
+
+List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+| 1 | `VPP-1972 | One VPP change has decreased performance of NAT44ed processing, both slow path and fast path. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+