docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst

   1 .. _vpp_performance_tests_release_notes:
   2
   3 Release Notes
   4 =============
   5
   6 Changes in |csit-release|
   7 -------------------------
   8
   9 #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
  10
  11    - **Enhanced and added VPP hoststack tests** to daily and weekly
  12      trending including: Quic VPP Echo, UDP+TCP LD_PRELOAD iPerf3,
  13      LD_PRELOAD NGINX.
  14
  15    - **Added Nvidia/Mellanox DPDK tests** to daily and weekly trending
  16      and report, in addition to RDMA_CORE ones that were already
  17      there.
  18
  19    - **Jumbo frames tests** got fixed and re-added number of to report
  20      coverage tests.
  21
  22    - **Intel Xeon SKX performance testbeds** got decommissioned and
  23      removed from FD.io performance lab.
  24
  25 #. TEST FRAMEWORK
  26
  27    - **CSIT test environment** version has not changed from ver. 11 used
  28      in previous release, see :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
  29
  30    - **CSIT PAPI optimizations for scale** got applied improving PAPI
  31      programming speed especially for large scale tests. VAT has been
  32      now completely deprecated from CSIT.
  33
  34    - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug
  35      fixes.
  36
  37 #. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
  38
  39    - `Performance dashboard <http://csit.fd.io/>`_ got updated with
  40      addition of VPP telemetry trending across all VPP tests. A number
  41      of code and AWS resource usage optimizations got applied to the
  42      data processing pipeline and UI frontend and backend.
  43
  44    - Examples of release iterative data visualisation:
  45
  46      - `Packet throughput 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base-scale-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrdVcluwjAQ_Zr0ggbZDml64QDkP5BxhhJlwYxNVPr1OAhpYiGO7cEHb3pv1qeRnT8T7h1266zYZuU2U2VThy3LN4twUOdULhSM1oLKl-FG2KF2CGqAxvyAFOIblZX4JYW5gB6P0NgVfK4OIA2gP02vsA6Tja1pcq12T9cvcRitr57RED1CRiQGo7SYZk-3GeddsszXhJoNQsYMeXSzZOKamHUk3aNrfpGpoQuMm9BohqSJ_fubnaHPRpXVg_F3qjijO1RCtEBDnZo8UXFJ6NQmKlGbgjp9ujPU_8cEFdXHcKb-8Q8V1R2PI8PX>`_
  47      - `Speedup Multi-Core throughput graph for 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrtlM8OgjAMxp8GL6aGFRAvHlTew8xRhAR1bpOoT-8wJIUYEg8mXjjsX35fu65fMusuhvaW6nWQbIN0G2Ba5X4Kos3cL6a2GIUIjdaA0cLvDNUkLQGeoVJ3EGF4JNSCViJUV5BNAZWOYRkfQCggV7YnPw5tjM5Nmxp3XeqPe5jmN8fU3z4gDRmGg7JYpstHTzNWLOulIckBvmJGjmyvmOGbWFUYeSJbPYmlvgvMlW80I6GG-d1D92jXqDR7K37qCk6ujLuC_3IlnlwZdyX-0pUkm50v5vT-yZLsBXP6Swk>`_
  48      - `MRR, NDR and PDR comparison for 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrtVMsOgjAQ_Bq8mDW0gHjxoPIfppZVSQDrthLx6y2GuBBj4kVPHvrKzG6nM0mtOxFuLZbLIFkH6TqQaZH7KYhWU79QaWUUSmiMARnN_I6wRGURZA2FvoIIwwNKI3AhQn0G1eyhMDHM4x0IDeiO3cmPXVdTEXWt5aZv_XIPo_nFMepvHyENEoMjWUwzx3bAeSeW-YpQcYFXzJBDOxAzfhOz9qQqtMUNmepdYFx7oxkSetzftWaA9kal2YPx5VTq_J_KR6n0Rv0mFfNP5bNUzDOVJJvUJ6oeP1mS3QG2H0sT>`_
  49      - `Normalized throughput architecture comparison for 2n-[icx|clx]-e810cq-ip4-base-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrVk00OgjAQhU-DGzOGFhA3LlTuYUoZhKRibSsRT28hJANRF-500b98rzOvM6l1F4NHi2obJPsg3Qc8rQs_BdFu6RejLI9CDq3WwKOV3xlUKCwCb0CqO7AwPCHXDDcslFcQbQm1jmEd58AkoKv6kx95f0cXpg_ND2PolzxEi5sj6rPPSIuG4MwWyXTVTTSfzJJeGBR0wTsm5NBOzMzfRKrSiDPa-oEk9VUgLn2hCTE5j-86PaFjodJsUHzXlVr-UVfem_35riTZormY8_BneNpvhRpzJNkT6FzkMw>`_
  50      - `NICs comparison for 2n-icx-ip4-base-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrll99ugyAUh5_G3SxnESx1N7to53s0FI6rmbYMnKF7-qFrcmRmV7vReuG__A74wSckuvZi8eCwfknEPsn3Cc8rHU5JtnsMF1s7nqUcOmOAZ0_hzmKN0iHwM6jaA0vTN-SGKS_EVkJTewGV2cB2cwSmANtT_xSOY9_IaNv3zV9vfU9eRKn-bCkNr4-SDi2FEReVmdN1VPMnLTWQFiW1CMgUtehGNPGgqKq0skFXfSGVhmmgXIWppoipuP_2akbpbabyYqj4txerG7kcLz3tnXvBZ5aqD5BduQAtBLsOK9ro9-Vo6Wnv1sswUJ-zdPZLJSJdgY_ZL5IY9U6NcPEzTN8NX14JXpsZW_mNewi46zAz691rwroKJzPfwaaws7ciiofzxTbDv6QovgETwNPp>`_
  51
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  55
  56 .. _vpp_known_issues:
  57
  58 Known Issues
  59 ------------
  60
  61 Editing Note: below listed known issues need to be updated to reflect the current state as tracked on `CSIT TestFailuresTracking wiki <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/TestFailuresTracking>`_.
  62
  63 New
  64 ___
  65
  66 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  67 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
  68 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
  69 |  1 | `CSIT-1890                              | 3n-alt: Tests failing until 40Ge Interface comes up.                                                      |
  70 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1890>`_ |                                                                                                           |
  71 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  72
  73 Previous
  74 ________
  75
  76 Issues reported in previous releases which still affect the current results.
  77
  78 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  79 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
  80 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
  81 |  1 | `CSIT-1782                              | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface.                                          |
  82 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1782>`_ | Frequency is reduced by CSIT workaround, but occasional failures do still happen.                         |
  83 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  84 |  2 | `CSIT-1785                              | NAT44ED tests failing to establish all TCP sessions.                                                      |
  85 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1785>`_ | At least for max scale, in allotted time (limited by session 500s timeout) due to worse                   |
  86 |    +-----------------------------------------+ slow path performance than previously measured and calibrated for.                                        |
  87 |    | `VPP-1972                               | CSIT removed the max scale NAT tests to avoid this issue.                                                 |
  88 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1972>`_  |                                                                                                           |
  89 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  90 |  3 | `CSIT-1799                              | All NAT44-ED 16M sessions CPS scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range.                         |
  91 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1799>`_ |                                                                                                           |
  92 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  93 |  4 | `CSIT-1800                              | All Geneve L3 mode scale tests (1024 tunnels) are failing.                                                |
  94 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1800>`_ |                                                                                                           |
  95 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  96 |  5 | `CSIT-1801                              | 9000B payload frames not forwarded over tunnels due to violating supported Max Frame Size (VxLAN, LISP,   |
  97 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1801>`_ | SRv6).                                                                                                    |
  98 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  99 |  6 | `CSIT-1802                              | all testbeds: AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time.                                               |
 100 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1802>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 101 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 102 |  7 | `CSIT-1804                              | All testbeds: NDR tests failing from time to time.                                                        |
 103 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1804>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 104 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 105 |  8 | `CSIT-1808                              | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces.                                  |
 106 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1808>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 107 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 108 |  9 | `CSIT-1827                              | 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive        |
 109 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1827>`_ | packet loss.                                                                                              |
 110 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 111 | 10 | `CSIT-1835                              | 3n-icx: QUIC vppecho BPS tests failing on timeout when checking hoststack finished.                       |
 112 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1835>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 113 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 114 | 11 | `CSIT-1849                              | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: UDP 16m TPUT tests fail to create all sessions.                                   |
 115 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1849>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 116 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 117 | 12 | `CSIT-1864                              | 2n-clx: half of the packets lost on PDR tests.                                                            |
 118 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1864>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 119 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 120 | 13 | `CSIT-1877                              | 3n-tsh: all VM tests failing to boot VM.                                                              |
 121 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1877>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 122 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 123 | 14 | `CSIT-1883                              | 3n-snr: All hwasync wireguard tests failing when trying to verify device.                                 |
 124 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1883>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 125 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 126 | 15 | `CSIT-1884                              | 2n-clx, 2n-icx: All NAT44DET NDR PDR IMIX over 1M sessions BIDIR tests failing to create enough sessions. |
 127 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1884>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 128 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 129 | 16 | `CSIT-1885                              | 3n-icx: 9000b ip4 ip6 l2 NDRPDR AVF tests are failing to forward traffic.                                 |
 130 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1885>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 131 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 132 | 17 | `CSIT-1886                              | 3n-icx: Wireguard tests with 100 and more tunnels are failing PDR criteria.                               |
 133 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1886>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 134 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 135
 136 Fixed
 137 _____
 138
 139 Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release:
 140
 141 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 142 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
 143 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
 144 |  1 | `CSIT-1868                              | 2n-clx: ALL ldpreload-nginx tests fails when trying to start nginx.                                       |
 145 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1868>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 146 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 147 |  2 | `CSIT-1871                              | 3n-snr: 25GE interface between SUT and TG/TRex goes down randomly.                                        |
 148 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1871>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 149 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 150
 151 .. _vpp_rca:
 152
 153 Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
 154 -------------------------------------------
 155
 156 List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
 157
 158 +----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
 159 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                  |
 160 +====+=========================================+====================================================================+
 161 |  1 | `CSIT-1887                              | rls2210 RCA: ASTF tests                                            |
 162 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1887>`_ | TRex upgrade decreased TRex performance. NAT results not affected, |
 163 |    |                                         | except on Denverton due to interference from VPP-2010.             |
 164 +----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
 165 |  2 | `CSIT-1888                              | rls2210 RCA: testbed differences, especially for ipsec             |
 166 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1888>`_ | Not caused by VPP code nor CSIT code.                              |
 167 |    |                                         | Most probable cause is clang-14 behavior.                          |
 168 +----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
 169 |  3 | `CSIT-1889                              | rls2210 RCA: policy-outbound-nocrypto                              |
 170 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1889>`_ | When VPP added spd fast path matching (Gerrit 36097),              |
 171 |    |                                         | it decreased MRR of the corresponding tests, at least on 3-alt.    |
 172 +----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+