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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  54     \clearpage
  55
  56 .. _vpp_known_issues:
  57
  58 Known Issues
  59 ------------
  60
  61 New
  62 ___
  63
  64 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  65 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
  66 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
  67 |  1 | `VPP-2070                               | CSIT rdma 4c tests fail on 2n-zn2.                                                                        |
  68 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-2070>`_  | Memory alignment issue caused by a recent VPP merge.                                                      |
  69 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  70 |  2 | `CSIT-1876                              | 1n-aws: TRex NDR PDR ALL IP4 scale and L2 scale tests failing with 50% packet loss.                       |
  71 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1876>`_ | AWS perhaps changed its policy.                                                                           |
  72 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  73 |  3 | `CSIT-1901                              | 3n-icx: negative ipackets on TB38 AVF 4c l2patch                                                          |
  74 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1901>`_ | Hardware or TRex issue.                                                                                   |
  75 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  76
  77 Previous
  78 ________
  79
  80 Issues reported in previous releases which still affect the current results.
  81
  82 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  83 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
  84 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
  85 |  1 | `CSIT-1782                              | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface.                                          |
  86 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1782>`_ | Frequency is reduced by CSIT workaround, but occasional failures do still happen.                         |
  87 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  88 |  2 | `CSIT-1785                              | NAT44ED tests failing to establish all TCP sessions.                                                      |
  89 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1785>`_ | At least for max scale, in allotted time (limited by session 500s timeout) due to worse                   |
  90 |    +-----------------------------------------+ slow path performance than previously measured and calibrated for.                                        |
  91 |    | `VPP-1972                               | CSIT removed the max scale NAT tests to avoid this issue.                                                 |
  92 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1972>`_  |                                                                                                           |
  93 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  94 |  3 | `CSIT-1798                              | Investigate why vhost with testpmd in VM has two-band structure.                                          |
  95 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1798>`_ | Probably QEMU not allocating memory on the correct NUMA socket.                                           |
  96 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  97 |  4 | `CSIT-1800                              | All Geneve L3 mode scale tests (1024 tunnels) are failing.                                                |
  98 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1800>`_ |                                                                                                           |
  99 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 100 |  5 | `CSIT-1801                              | 9000B payload frames not forwarded over tunnels due to violating supported Max Frame Size (VxLAN, LISP,   |
 101 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1801>`_ | SRv6).                                                                                                    |
 102 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 103 |  6 | `CSIT-1802                              | all testbeds: AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time.                                               |
 104 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1802>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 105 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 106 |  7 | `CSIT-1804                              | All testbeds: NDR tests failing from time to time.                                                        |
 107 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1804>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 108 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 109 |  8 | `CSIT-1808                              | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces.                                  |
 110 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1808>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 111 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 112 |  9 | `CSIT-1890                              | 3n-alt: Tests failing until 40Ge Interface comes up.                                                      |
 113 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1890>`_ | A consequence of CSIT-1848 link slowness persisting over to other job runs.                               |
 114 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 115 | 10 | `CSIT-1849                              | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: UDP 16m TPUT tests fail to create all sessions.                                   |
 116 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1849>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 117 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 118 | 11 | `CSIT-1864                              | 2n-clx: half of the packets lost on PDR tests.                                                            |
 119 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1864>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 120 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 121 | 12 | `CSIT-1877                              | 3n-tsh: all VM tests sometimes too slow to boot VM.                                                       |
 122 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1877>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 123 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 124 | 13 | `CSIT-1883                              | 3n-snr: All hwasync wireguard tests failing when trying to verify device.                                 |
 125 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1883>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 126 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 127 | 14 | `CSIT-1884                              | 2n-clx, 2n-icx: All NAT44DET NDR PDR IMIX over 1M sessions BIDIR tests failing to create enough sessions. |
 128 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1884>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 129 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 130 | 15 | `CSIT-1886                              | 3n-icx: Wireguard tests with 100 and more tunnels are failing PDR criteria.                               |
 131 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1886>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 132 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 133
 134 Fixed
 135 _____
 136
 137 Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release:
 138
 139 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 140 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
 141 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
 142 |  1 | `CSIT-1799                              | All NAT44-ED 16M sessions CPS scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range.                         |
 143 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1799>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 144 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 145 |  2 | `CSIT-1827                              | 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive        |
 146 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1827>`_ | packet loss.                                                                                              |
 147 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 148 |  3 | `CSIT-1835                              | 3n-icx: QUIC vppecho BPS tests failing on timeout when checking hoststack finished.                       |
 149 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1835>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 150 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 151 |  4 | `CSIT-1885                              | 3n-icx: 9000b ip4 ip6 l2 NDRPDR AVF tests are failing to forward traffic.                                 |
 152 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1885>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 153 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 154
 155 .. _vpp_rca:
 156
 157 Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
 158 -------------------------------------------
 159
 160 List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
 161
 162 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 163 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
 164 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
 165 |  1 | `CSIT-1902                              | 3n-tsh: Investigate performance changes seen on some tests.                                               |
 166 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1902>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 167 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 168 |  2 | `VPP-2072                               | RSS is not deterministic on Intel-E822CQ NIC.                                                             |
 169 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-2072>`_  |                                                                                                           |
 170 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+