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+.. _vpp_performance_tests_release_notes:
+
Release Notes
=============
@@ -6,73 +8,46 @@ 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`.
-
- - **GENEVE tests**: Added VPP performance tests for GENEVE tunnels.
-
- - See :ref:`geneve_methodology` for more details.
-
- - **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 NAT44 endpoint-depended mode uni-directional (nat44ed-udir)
- tests that measure packet throughput in one direction with usage of TRex
- in stateless mode.
-
- - Added new NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode CPS tests that measure
- connections per second with usage of TRex in stateful mode.
- UPD packet size is 64 bytes. Size of TCP control packets
- is not configurable, please ignore the -64b- part of test names.
-
- - Added new NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode PPS tests that measure
- packets per second (control and data together) with usage of TRex
- in stateful mode. UPD packet size is 64 bytes. Size of TCP
- data packets is governed by the default MSS value, so most data packets
- are 1460 bytes long, please ignore the -64b- part of test names.
-
- - See :ref:`nat44_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.
- - **IPSec async mode tests**: Added VPP performance tests for async crypto
- engine.
+ - **Added Nvidia/Mellanox DPDK tests** to daily and weekly trending
+ and report, in addition to RDMA_CORE ones that were already
+ there.
- - **AMD 2n-zn2 testbed**: New physical testbed type installed in
- FD.io CSIT, with VPP and DPDK performance data added to CSIT
- trending and this report.
+ - **Jumbo frames tests** got fixed and re-added number of to report
+ coverage tests.
- - **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**: Added 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 RF keywords optimizations,
- removal of redundant RF keywords and aligning of suite/test
- setup/teardowns.
-
- - **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.
+ - `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
@@ -83,48 +58,113 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
Known Issues
------------
-List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests:
+New
+___
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+| 1 | `VPP-2070 | CSIT rdma 4c tests fail on 2n-zn2. |
+| | `_ | Memory alignment issue caused by a recent VPP merge. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `CSIT-1876 | 1n-aws: TRex NDR PDR ALL IP4 scale and L2 scale tests failing with 50% packet loss. |
+| | `_ | AWS perhaps changed its policy. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `CSIT-1901 | 3n-icx: negative ipackets on TB38 AVF 4c l2patch |
+| | `_ | Hardware or TRex issue. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+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-1798 | Investigate why vhost with testpmd in VM has two-band structure. |
+| | `_ | Probably QEMU not allocating memory on the correct NUMA socket. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 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-1890 | 3n-alt: Tests failing until 40Ge Interface comes up. |
+| | `_ | A consequence of CSIT-1848 link slowness persisting over to other job runs. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 10 | `CSIT-1849 | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: UDP 16m TPUT tests fail to create all sessions. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 2 | `VPP-662 | 9000B packets not supported by NICs VIC1227 and VIC1387. |
-| | `_ | |
+| 11 | `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. |
+| 12 | `CSIT-1877 | 3n-tsh: all VM tests sometimes too slow to boot VM. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 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. |
+| 13 | `CSIT-1883 | 3n-snr: All hwasync wireguard tests failing when trying to verify device. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 5 | `CSIT-1771 | IPv4 IPSEC 9000B packet tests had been failing when chained buffers were not supported. |
-| | `_ | This has been fixed on VPP side, but CSIT still needs to re-enable jumbo tests. |
+| 14 | `CSIT-1884 | 2n-clx, 2n-icx: All NAT44DET NDR PDR IMIX over 1M sessions BIDIR tests failing to create enough sessions. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 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. |
+| 15 | `CSIT-1886 | 3n-icx: Wireguard tests with 100 and more tunnels are failing PDR criteria. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 7 | `CSIT-1760 | All Mellanox / rdma driver tests are failing on LF testbed28 while successfully run on other LF testbeds. |
-| | `_ | |
+
+Fixed
+_____
+
+Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release:
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+| 1 | `CSIT-1799 | All NAT44-ED 16M sessions CPS scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `CSIT-1827 | 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive |
+| | `_ | packet loss. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `CSIT-1835 | 3n-icx: QUIC vppecho BPS tests failing on timeout when checking hoststack finished. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 4 | `CSIT-1885 | 3n-icx: 9000b ip4 ip6 l2 NDRPDR AVF tests are failing to forward traffic. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+.. _vpp_rca:
+
Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
-------------------------------------------
List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
+====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
-| 1 | | |
-| | | |
+| 1 | `CSIT-1902 | 3n-tsh: Investigate performance changes seen on some tests. |
+| | `_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `VPP-2072 | RSS is not deterministic on Intel-E822CQ NIC. |
+| | `_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+