X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Freport%2Fvpp_performance_tests%2Fcsit_release_notes.rst;h=c3431442c2e2f68e243fe49bca2f734d4a709b11;hb=4ade202fbf0b8978cd7d348507c14eda28ae76ad;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..c3431442c2 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -6,32 +6,49 @@ Changes in CSIT |release| #. Added VPP performance tests - - **Linux Container VPP memif tests** + - **Container Topologies Orchestrated by K8s with VPP memif tests** - - Tests with VPP in L2 Bridge-Domain configuration connecting over - memif virtual interfaces to VPPs running in LXCs; + - Added tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect and Bridge-Domain + configurations containers, with service chain topologies orchestrated by + Kubernetes. Added following forwarding topologies: i) "Parallel" with + packets flowing from NIC via VPP to container and back to VPP and NIC; + ii) "Chained" a.k.a. "Snake" with packets flowing via VPP to container, + back to VPP, to next container, back to VPP and so on until the last + container in chain, then back to VPP and NIC; iii) "Horizontal" with + packets flowing via VPP to container, then via "horizontal" memif to + next container, and so on until the last container, then back to VPP and + NIC;. - - **Docker Container VPP memif tests** + - **VPP TCP/IP stack** - - Tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect configuration connecting over - memif virtual interfaces VPPs running in Docker containers; + - Added tests for VPP TCP/IP stack using VPP built-in HTTP server. + WRK traffic generator is used as a client-side; - - **Container Topologies Orchestrated by K8s with VPP memif tests** + - **SRv6 tests** + + - Initial SRv6 (Segment Routing IPv6) tests verifying performance of + IPv6 and SRH (Segment Routing Header) encapsulation, decapsulation, + lookups and rewrites based on configured End and End.DX6 SRv6 egress + functions; - - 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; + - **IPSecSW tests** - - **Stateful Security Groups** + - SW computed IPSec encryption with AES-GCM, CBC-SHA1 ciphers, in + combination with IPv4 routed-forwarding; - - m-thread m-core VPP stateful and stateless security-groups tests; +#. Presentation and Analytics Layer - - **MAC-IP binding** + - Added throughput speedup analysis for multi-core and multi-thread + VPP tests into Presentation and Analytics Layer (PAL) for automated + CSIT test results analysis; - - MACIP input access-lists, single-thread single-core and m-thread - m-core tests; +#. Other improvements - - Statistical analysis of repeatibility of results; + - **Framework optimizations** + + - Ability to run CSIT framework on ARM architecture; + + - Overall stability improvements; Performance Improvements ------------------------ @@ -62,7 +79,7 @@ Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests: \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}, + 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} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, } \makeatother @@ -94,7 +111,7 @@ Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%: \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}, + 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} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, } \makeatother @@ -138,7 +155,7 @@ Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests: \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}, + 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} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, } \makeatother @@ -170,7 +187,7 @@ Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%: \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}, + 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} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, } \makeatother @@ -196,7 +213,7 @@ Here is the list of known issues in CSIT |release| for VPP performance tests: | 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 | +| 2 | Sporadic NDR discovery test failures on x520. | CSIT-750 | Suspected issue with HW combination of X710-X520 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 | @@ -206,4 +223,3 @@ Here is the list of known issues in CSIT |release| for VPP performance tests: | 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. | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -