Changes in CSIT |release|
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-#. Naming change for all Testpmd performance test suites and test cases.
-
#. Added Testpmd tests
- new NICs - Intel x520
-
-Performance Tests Naming
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-
-CSIT |release| introduced a common structured naming convention for all
-performance and functional tests. This change was driven by substantially
-growing number and type of CSIT test cases. Firstly, the original practice did
-not always follow any strict naming convention. Secondly test names did not
-always clearly capture tested packet encapsulations, and the actual type or
-content of the tests. Thirdly HW configurations in terms of NICs, ports and
-their locality were not captured either. These were but few reasons that drove
-the decision to change and define a new more complete and stricter test naming
-convention, and to apply this to all existing and new test cases.
-
-The new naming should be intuitive for majority of the tests. The complete
-description of CSIT test naming convention is provided on `CSIT test naming wiki
-<https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit-test-naming>`_.
-
-Here few illustrative examples of the new naming usage for performance test
-suites:
-
-#. **Physical port to physical port - a.k.a. NIC-to-NIC, Phy-to-Phy, P2P**
-
- - *PortNICConfig-WireEncapsulation-PacketForwardingFunction-
- PacketProcessingFunction1-...-PacketProcessingFunctionN-TestType*
- - *10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot* => 2 ports of 10GE on
- Intel x520 NIC, dot1q tagged Ethernet, L2 bridge-domain baseline switching
- with MAC learning, NDR throughput discovery.
- - *10ge2p1x520-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrchk.robot* => 2 ports of 10GE
- on Intel x520 NIC, IPv4 VXLAN Ethernet, L2 bridge-domain baseline
- switching with MAC learning, NDR throughput discovery.
- - *10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-ndrdisc.robot* => 2 ports of 10GE on Intel
- x520 NIC, IPv4 baseline routed forwarding, NDR throughput discovery.
- - *10ge2p1x520-ethip6-ip6scale200k-ndrdisc.robot* => 2 ports of 10GE on
- Intel x520 NIC, IPv6 scaled up routed forwarding, NDR throughput
- discovery.
-
-#. **Physical port to VM (or VM chain) to physical port - a.k.a. NIC2VM2NIC,
- P2V2P, NIC2VMchain2NIC, P2V2V2P**
-
- - *PortNICConfig-WireEncapsulation-PacketForwardingFunction-
- PacketProcessingFunction1-...-PacketProcessingFunctionN-VirtEncapsulation-
- VirtPortConfig-VMconfig-TestType*
- - *10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhost-1vm-ndrdisc.robot* => 2 ports
- of 10GE on Intel x520 NIC, dot1q tagged Ethernet, L2 bridge-domain
- switching to/from two vhost interfaces and one VM, NDR throughput
- discovery.
- - *10ge2p1x520-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhost-1vm-ndrdisc.robot* => 2
- ports of 10GE on Intel x520 NIC, IPv4 VXLAN Ethernet, L2 bridge-domain
- switching to/from two vhost interfaces and one VM, NDR throughput
- discovery.
- - *10ge2p1x520-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhost-2vm-ndrdisc.robot* => 2
- ports of 10GE on Intel x520 NIC, IPv4 VXLAN Ethernet, L2 bridge-domain
- switching to/from four vhost interfaces and two VMs, NDR throughput
- discovery.
-
Multi-Thread and Multi-Core Measurements
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**Multi-core Test** - CSIT |release| multi-core tests are executed in the
following Testpmd thread and core configurations:
-#. 1t1c - 1 Testpmd worker thread on 1 CPU physical core.
-#. 2t2c - 2 Testpmd worker threads on 2 CPU physical cores.
-#. 4t4c - 4 Testpmd threads on 4 CPU physical cores.
+#. 1t1c - 1 Testpmd pmd thread on 1 CPU physical core.
+#. 2t2c - 2 Testpmd pmd threads on 2 CPU physical cores.
+#. 4t4c - 4 Testpmd pmd threads on 4 CPU physical cores.
-Note that in quite a few test cases running Testpmd on 2 or 4 physical cores
-hits the tested NIC I/O bandwidth or packets-per-second limit.
+Note that in many tests running Testpmd reaches tested NIC I/O bandwidth
+or packets-per-second limit.
Packet Throughput Measurements
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interface line.
-Report Addendum Tests - More NICs
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+Report Addendum Tests - Additional NICs
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Adding test cases with more NIC types. Once the results become available, they
will be published as an addendum to the current version of CSIT |release|
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