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+SUT Configuration - Host OS Linux
+---------------------------------
+
+System provisioning is done by combination of PXE boot unattented
+install and
+`Ansible <https://www.ansible.com>`_ described in `CSIT Testbed Setup`_.
+
+Below a subset of the running configuration:
+
+#. Haswell - Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
+
+::
+
+ $ lsb_release -a
+ No LSB modules are available.
+ Distributor ID: Ubuntu
+ Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
+ Release: 16.04
+ Codename: xenial
+
+#. Skylake - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
+
+::
+
+ $ lsb_release -a
+ No LSB modules are available.
+ Distributor ID: Ubuntu
+ Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
+ Release: 18.04
+ Codename: bionic
+
+**Kernel boot parameters used in CSIT performance testbeds**
+
+- **isolcpus=<cpu number>-<cpu number>** used for all cpu cores apart from
+ first core of each socket used for running VPP worker threads and Qemu/LXC
+ processes
+ https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+- **intel_pstate=disable** - [X86] Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
+ scaling driver for the supported processors. Intel P-State driver decide what
+ P-state (CPU core power state) to use based on requesting policy from the
+ cpufreq core. [X86 - Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86]
+ https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt
+- **nohz_full=<cpu number>-<cpu number>** - [KNL,BOOT] In kernels built with
+ CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
+ whenever possible. The boot CPU will be forced outside the range to maintain
+ the timekeeping. The CPUs in this range must also be included in the
+ rcu_nocbs= set. Specifies the adaptive-ticks CPU cores, causing kernel to
+ avoid sending scheduling-clock interrupts to listed cores as long as they have
+ a single runnable task. [KNL - Is a kernel start-up parameter, SMP - The
+ kernel is an SMP kernel].
+ https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt
+- **rcu_nocbs** - [KNL] In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set the
+ specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs, that never queue RCU callbacks
+ (read-copy update).
+ https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+- **numa_balancing=disable** - [KNL,X86] Disable automatic NUMA balancing.
+- **intel_iommu=enable** - [DMAR] Enable Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option.
+- **iommu=on, iommu=pt** - [x86, IA-64] Disable IOMMU bypass, using IOMMU for
+ PCI devices.
+- **nmi_watchdog=0** - [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels. Turn
+ hardlockup detector in nmi_watchdog off.
+- **nosoftlockup** - [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
+- **tsc=reliable** - Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
+ [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this disables clocksource
+ verification at runtime, as well as the stability checks done at bootup.
+ Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
+ virtualized environment.
+- **hpet=disable** - [X86-32,HPET] Disable HPET and use PIT instead.
+
+**Applied command line boot parameters:**
+
+#. Haswell - Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
+
+::
+
+ $ cat /proc/cmdline
+ BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.4.0-72-generic root=UUID=35ea11e4-e44f-4f67-8cbe-12f09c49ed90 ro isolcpus=1-17,19-35 nohz_full=1-17,19-35 rcu_nocbs=1-17,19-35 intel_pstate=disable console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8
+
+#. Skylake - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
+
+::
+
+ $ cat /proc/cmdline
+ BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.15.0-23-generic root=UUID=3fa246fd-1b80-4361-bb90-f339a6bbed51 ro isolcpus=1-27,29-55,57-83,85-111 nohz_full=1-27,29-55,57-83,85-111 rcu_nocbs=1-27,29-55,57-83,85-111 numa_balancing=disable intel_pstate=disable intel_iommu=on iommu=pt nmi_watchdog=0 audit=0 nosoftlockup processor.max_cstate=1 intel_idle.max_cstate=1 hpet=disable tsc=reliable mce=off console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8
+
+
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