-CSIT |release| introduced a common structured naming convention for all\r
-performance and functional tests. This change was driven by substantially\r
-growing number and type of CSIT test cases. Firstly, the original practice did\r
-not always follow any strict naming convention. Secondly test names did not\r
-always clearly capture tested packet encapsulations, and the actual type or\r
-content of the tests. Thirdly HW configurations in terms of NICs, ports and\r
-their locality were not captured either. These were but few reasons that drove\r
-the decision to change and define a new more complete and stricter test naming\r
-convention, and to apply this to all existing and new test cases.\r
-\r
-The new naming should be intuitive for majority of the tests. The complete\r
-description of CSIT test naming convention is provided on `CSIT test naming wiki\r
-<https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit-test-naming>`_.\r
-\r
-Here few illustrative examples of the new naming usage for performance test\r
-suites:\r
-\r
-#. **Physical port to physical port - a.k.a. NIC-to-NIC, Phy-to-Phy, P2P**\r
-\r
- - *PortNICConfig-WireEncapsulation-PacketForwardingFunction-\r
- PacketProcessingFunction1-...-PacketProcessingFunctionN-TestType*\r
- - *10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot* => 2 ports of 10GE on\r
- Intel x520 NIC, dot1q tagged Ethernet, L2 bridge-domain baseline switching\r
- with MAC learning, NDR throughput discovery.\r
- - *10ge2p1x520-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrchk.robot* => 2 ports of 10GE\r
- on Intel x520 NIC, IPv4 VXLAN Ethernet, L2 bridge-domain baseline\r
- switching with MAC learning, NDR throughput discovery.\r
- - *10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-ndrdisc.robot* => 2 ports of 10GE on Intel\r
- x520 NIC, IPv4 baseline routed forwarding, NDR throughput discovery.\r
- - *10ge2p1x520-ethip6-ip6scale200k-ndrdisc.robot* => 2 ports of 10GE on\r
- Intel x520 NIC, IPv6 scaled up routed forwarding, NDR throughput\r
- discovery.\r
-\r
-#. **Physical port to VM (or VM chain) to physical port - a.k.a. NIC2VM2NIC,\r
- P2V2P, NIC2VMchain2NIC, P2V2V2P**\r
-\r
- - *PortNICConfig-WireEncapsulation-PacketForwardingFunction-\r
- PacketProcessingFunction1-...-PacketProcessingFunctionN-VirtEncapsulation-\r
- VirtPortConfig-VMconfig-TestType*\r
- - *10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhost-1vm-ndrdisc.robot* => 2 ports\r
- of 10GE on Intel x520 NIC, dot1q tagged Ethernet, L2 bridge-domain\r
- switching to/from two vhost interfaces and one VM, NDR throughput\r
- discovery.\r
- - *10ge2p1x520-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhost-1vm-ndrdisc.robot* => 2\r
- ports of 10GE on Intel x520 NIC, IPv4 VXLAN Ethernet, L2 bridge-domain\r
- switching to/from two vhost interfaces and one VM, NDR throughput\r
- discovery.\r
- - *10ge2p1x520-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhost-2vm-ndrdisc.robot* => 2\r
- ports of 10GE on Intel x520 NIC, IPv4 VXLAN Ethernet, L2 bridge-domain\r
- switching to/from four vhost interfaces and two VMs, NDR throughput\r
- discovery.\r
-\r
-Measured Performance Improvements\r
----------------------------------\r
-\r
-Substantial improvements in measured packet throughput have been observed\r
-in VPP-17.01 for the following CSIT |release| tests:\r
-\r
-+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------------+\r
-| VPP Functionality | Test Name | VPP-16.09 | VPP-17.01 | Relative Improvement |\r
-+===================+================================================================+===========+=================+======================+\r
-| L2XC | 10ge2p1x520:64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc | 9.4 Mpps | 12.6..12.9 Mpps | 34..37% |\r
-+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------------+\r
-| L2XC | 10ge2p1xl710:64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc | 9.5 Mpps | 12.1..12.4 Mpps | 27..30% |\r
-+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------------+\r
-| L2BD | 10ge2p1x520:64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc | 7.8 Mpps | 10.6 Mpps | 36% |\r
-+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------------+\r
-| L2BD-vhost-VM | 10ge2p1x520:64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhost-1vm-ndrdisc | 0.4 Mpps | 2.8 Mpps | 600% |\r
-+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------------+\r
-| L2XC-vhost-VM | 10ge2p1x520:64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhost-1vm-ndrdisc | 0.4 Mpps | 3.2 Mpps | 700% |\r
-+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------------+\r
-| IPv4 | 10ge2p1x520:64B-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-ndrdisc | 8.7 Mpps | 9.7 Mpps | 12% |\r
-+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------------+\r
-\r
-Non-drop rate search:\r