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 .. raw:: latex
  45
  46     \clearpage
  47
  48 .. _vpp_known_issues:
  49
  50 Known Issues
  51 ------------
  52
  53 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>`_.
  54
  55 New
  56 ___
  57
  58 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  59 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
  60 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
  61 |  1 | `CSIT-1890                              | 3n-alt: Tests failing until 40Ge Interface comes up.                                                      |
  62 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1890>`_ |                                                                                                           |
  63 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  64
  65 Previous
  66 ________
  67
  68 Issues reported in previous releases which still affect the current results.
  69
  70 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  71 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
  72 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
  73 |  1 | `CSIT-1782                              | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface.                                          |
  74 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1782>`_ | Frequency is reduced by CSIT workaround, but occasional failures do still happen.                         |
  75 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  76 |  2 | `CSIT-1785                              | NAT44ED tests failing to establish all TCP sessions.                                                      |
  77 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1785>`_ | At least for max scale, in allotted time (limited by session 500s timeout) due to worse                   |
  78 |    +-----------------------------------------+ slow path performance than previously measured and calibrated for.                                        |
  79 |    | `VPP-1972                               | CSIT removed the max scale NAT tests to avoid this issue.                                                 |
  80 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1972>`_  |                                                                                                           |
  81 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  82 |  3 | `CSIT-1799                              | All NAT44-ED 16M sessions CPS scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range.                         |
  83 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1799>`_ |                                                                                                           |
  84 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  85 |  4 | `CSIT-1800                              | All Geneve L3 mode scale tests (1024 tunnels) are failing.                                                |
  86 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1800>`_ |                                                                                                           |
  87 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  88 |  5 | `CSIT-1801                              | 9000B payload frames not forwarded over tunnels due to violating supported Max Frame Size (VxLAN, LISP,   |
  89 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1801>`_ | SRv6).                                                                                                    |
  90 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  91 |  6 | `CSIT-1802                              | all testbeds: AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time.                                               |
  92 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1802>`_ |                                                                                                           |
  93 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  94 |  7 | `CSIT-1804                              | All testbeds: NDR tests failing from time to time.                                                        |
  95 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1804>`_ |                                                                                                           |
  96 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  97 |  8 | `CSIT-1808                              | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces.                                  |
  98 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1808>`_ |                                                                                                           |
  99 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 100 |  9 | `CSIT-1827                              | 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive        |
 101 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1827>`_ | packet loss.                                                                                              |
 102 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 103 | 10 | `CSIT-1835                              | 3n-icx: QUIC vppecho BPS tests failing on timeout when checking hoststack finished.                       |
 104 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1835>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 105 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 106 | 11 | `CSIT-1849                              | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: UDP 16m TPUT tests fail to create all sessions.                                   |
 107 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1849>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 108 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 109 | 12 | `CSIT-1864                              | 2n-clx: half of the packets lost on PDR tests.                                                            |
 110 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1864>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 111 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 112 | 13 | `CSIT-1877                              | 3n-tsh: all VM tests failing to boot VM.                                                              |
 113 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1877>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 114 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 115 | 14 | `CSIT-1883                              | 3n-snr: All hwasync wireguard tests failing when trying to verify device.                                 |
 116 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1883>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 117 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 118 | 15 | `CSIT-1884                              | 2n-clx, 2n-icx: All NAT44DET NDR PDR IMIX over 1M sessions BIDIR tests failing to create enough sessions. |
 119 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1884>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 120 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 121 | 16 | `CSIT-1885                              | 3n-icx: 9000b ip4 ip6 l2 NDRPDR AVF tests are failing to forward traffic.                                 |
 122 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1885>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 123 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 124 | 17 | `CSIT-1886                              | 3n-icx: Wireguard tests with 100 and more tunnels are failing PDR criteria.                               |
 125 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1886>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 126 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 127
 128 Fixed
 129 _____
 130
 131 Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release:
 132
 133 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 134 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
 135 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
 136 |  1 | `CSIT-1868                              | 2n-clx: ALL ldpreload-nginx tests fails when trying to start nginx.                                       |
 137 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1868>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 138 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 139 |  2 | `CSIT-1871                              | 3n-snr: 25GE interface between SUT and TG/TRex goes down randomly.                                        |
 140 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1871>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 141 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 142
 143 .. _vpp_rca:
 144
 145 Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
 146 -------------------------------------------
 147
 148 List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
 149
 150 +----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
 151 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                  |
 152 +====+=========================================+====================================================================+
 153 |  1 | `CSIT-1887                              | rls2210 RCA: ASTF tests                                            |
 154 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1887>`_ | TRex upgrade decreased TRex performance. NAT results not affected, |
 155 |    |                                         | except on Denverton due to interference from VPP-2010.             |
 156 +----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
 157 |  2 | `CSIT-1888                              | rls2210 RCA: testbed differences, especially for ipsec             |
 158 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1888>`_ | Not caused by VPP code nor CSIT code.                              |
 159 |    |                                         | Most probable cause is clang-14 behavior.                          |
 160 +----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
 161 |  3 | `CSIT-1889                              | rls2210 RCA: policy-outbound-nocrypto                              |
 162 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1889>`_ | When VPP added spd fast path matching (Gerrit 36097),              |
 163 |    |                                         | it decreased MRR of the corresponding tests, at least on 3-alt.    |
 164 +----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+