fix(report): update RCA
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@@ -8,39 +8,53 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
 
 #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
 
-   - CSIT test environment is versioned, see
-     :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
+   - **Added new performance testbed 3n-snr** (3 Node SnowRidge, with Intel
+     Atom processors), to later replace 3n-dnv and 2n-dnv (3 and 2 Node
+     Denverton) testbeds.
 
-   - **Upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS**: Reinstall base operating system to
-     Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. Upgrade includes also baseline Docker
-     containers used for spawning topology.
+   - **Added GTPU HW offload tests** using VPP GTPU hardware offload
+     with Intel e810 4p25ge NICs (3n-icx testbeds only). These tests
+     were already there in CSIT-2206, but were yielding invalid
+     results due to using TRex v2.97 that was incompatible with e810
+     NICs used for those tests.
 
-   - Initial test data for Intel Xeon Ice Lake platforms. Current
-     CSIT-2106 report data for Intel Xeon Ice Lake comes from an
-     external source (Intel labs running CSIT code on 8360Y D Stepping
-     and 6338N processors). For detail about the physical setup
-     see :ref:`tested_physical_topologies`. Tested VPP and CSIT
-     versions are pre-release, VPP 21.06-rc0~779-gd640ae52f.
+   - **Added Wireguard tests** using VPP software crypto (3n-icx, 3n-snr
+     testbeds) and using built-in hardware crypto QAT device (3n-snr testbed
+     only).
 
-   - **AF_XDP**: Added af_xdp driver testing for all testcases.
+   - **Reduction of tests**: Removed certain test variations executed
+     iteratively for the report (as well as in daily and weekly
+     trending) due to physical testbeds overload.
 
-   - **GTPU tunnel**: Added GTPU HW Offload IPv4 routing tests.
+#. TEST FRAMEWORK
 
-   - **Telemetry retouch**: Redesign telemetry retrieval from DUT.
-     Include VPP perfmon plugin telemetry.
+   - CSIT-2210 executes all VPP v22.10 performance tests using vpp ubuntu2204
+     images, due to CSIT execution environment change as noted below. This
+     applies to all performance testbeds except Denverton. Consequently, VPP
+     v22.06 has not been re-tested in CSIT-2210 environment, as no ubuntu204
+     images are available for that VPP version. Performance comparison
+     between VPP v22.10 (current version) vs VPP v22.06 (previous version)
+     may be impacted by VPP build environment change (ubuntu2004 to ubuntu
+     2204) change and CSIT environment change. See :ref:`vpp_rca` for
+     details.
+
+   - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 11, see
+     :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
 
-#. TEST FRAMEWORK
+   - **TCP TPUT profiles** had to be changed, as newer TRex versions
+     are not deterministic enough when deciding when to send an ACK.
 
-   - **CSIT PAPI support**: Due to issues with PAPI performance, VAT is
-     still used in CSIT for all VPP scale tests. See known issues below.
+   - **CSIT PAPI support**: Due to issues with PAPI performance, and
+     deprecation of VAT, VPP CLI is used in CSIT for many VPP scale
+     tests. See :ref:`vpp_known_issues`.
 
-   - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations,
-     speed ups and bug fixes.
+   - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug
+     fixes.
 
 #. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
 
-   - **Graphs improvements**: Updated Packet Latency graphs,
-     see :ref:`latency_methodology`.
+   - **C-Dash** `performance dashboard <http://csit.fd.io/>`_ got updated UI and
+     updated backend increasing its performance and robustness.
 
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@@ -51,32 +65,125 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
 Known Issues
 ------------
 
-List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests:
+New
+___
 
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
+|  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
-|  1 | `CSIT-1782                              | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface.                                          |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1782>`_ |                                                                                                           |
+|  1 | `CSIT-1850                              | 2n-dnv: sporadic 1518B tput tests failing to establish required sessions.                                 |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1850>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  2 | `CSIT-1763                              | Adapt ramp-up phase of nat44 tests for different frame sizes.                                             |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1763>`_ | Currently ramp-up phase rate and duration values are correctly set for tests with 64B frame size.         |
+|  2 | `CSIT-1864                              | 2n-clx: half of the packets lost on PDR tests.                                                            |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1864>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  3 | `CSIT-1671                              | All CSIT scale tests can not use PAPI due to much slower performance compared to VAT/CLI (it takes much   |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1671>`_ | longer to program VPP). This needs to be addressed on the PAPI side.                                      |
-|    +-----------------------------------------+ The usual PAPI library spends too much time parsing arguments, so even with async processing (hundreds of |
-|    | `VPP-1763                               | commands in flight over socket), the VPP configuration for large scale tests (millions of messages) takes |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1763>`_  | too long.                                                                                                 |
+|  3 | `CSIT-1868                              | 2n-clx: ALL ldpreload-nginx tests fails when trying to start nginx.                                       |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1868>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  4 | `CSIT-1871                              | 3n-snr: 25GE interface between SUT and TG/TRex goes down randomly.                                        |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1871>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  5 | `CSIT-1877                              | 3n-alt, 3n-tsh: VM tests failing to boot VM.                                                              |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1877>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  6 | `CSIT-1883                              | 3n-snr: All hwasync wireguard tests failing when trying to verify device.                                 |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1883>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  7 | `CSIT-1884                              | 2n-clx, 2n-icx: All NAT44DET NDR PDR IMIX over 1M sessions BIDIR tests failing to create enough sessions. |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1884>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  8 | `CSIT-1885                              | 3n-icx: 9000b ip4 ip6 l2 NDRPDR AVF tests are failing to forward traffic.                                 |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1885>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  9 | `CSIT-1886                              | 3n-icx: Wireguard tests with 100 and more tunnels are failing PDR criteria.                               |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1886>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 
-Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
--------------------------------------------
+Previous
+________
 
-List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
+Issues reported in previous releases which still affect the current results.
 
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
+|  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
-|  1 | `VPP-1972                               | One VPP change has decreased performance of NAT44ed processing, both slow path and fast path.             |
+|  1 | `CSIT-1671                              | All CSIT scale tests can not use PAPI due to much slower performance compared to VAT/CLI (it takes much   |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1671>`_ | longer to program VPP). This needs to be addressed on the PAPI side.                                      |
+|    +-----------------------------------------+ Currently, the time critical code uses VAT running large files with exec statements and CLI commands.     |
+|    | `VPP-1763                               | Still, we needed to reduce the number of scale tests run to keep overall duration reasonable.             |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1763>`_  | More improvements needed to achieve sufficient configuration speed.                                       |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  2 | `CSIT-1782                              | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface.                                          |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1782>`_ | Frequency is reduced by CSIT workaround, but occasional failures do still happen.                         |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  3 | `CSIT-1785                              | NAT44ED tests failing to establish all TCP sessions.                                                      |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1785>`_ | At least for max scale, in allotted time (limited by session 500s timeout) due to worse                   |
+|    +-----------------------------------------+ slow path performance than previously measured and calibrated for.                                        |
+|    | `VPP-1972                               | CSIT removed the max scale NAT tests to avoid this issue.                                                 |
 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1972>`_  |                                                                                                           |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  4 | `CSIT-1799                              | All NAT44-ED 16M sessions CPS scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range.                         |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1799>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  5 | `CSIT-1800                              | All Geneve L3 mode scale tests (1024 tunnels) are failing.                                                |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1800>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  6 | `CSIT-1801                              | 9000B payload frames not forwarded over tunnels due to violating supported Max Frame Size (VxLAN, LISP,   |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1801>`_ | SRv6).                                                                                                    |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  7 | `CSIT-1802                              | AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time.                                                             |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1802>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  8 | `CSIT-1804                              | All testbeds: NDR tests failing from time to time.                                                        |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1804>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  9 | `CSIT-1808                              | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces.                                  |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1808>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 10 | `CSIT-1827                              | 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive        |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1827>`_ | packet loss.                                                                                              |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 11 | `CSIT-1835                              | 3n-icx: QUIC vppecho BPS tests failing on timeout when checking hoststack finished.                       |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1835>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 12 | `CSIT-1849                              | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: UDP 16m TPUT tests fail to create all sessions.                                   |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1849>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Fixed
+_____
+
+Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release:
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+|  1 | `CSIT-1834                              | 2n-icx, 2n-skx: sporadic AVF soak tests failing to find critical load with PLRsearch.                     |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1834>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  2 | `CSIT-1846                              | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: ALL 1518B TCP tput tests failing with big packet loss.                            |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1846>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  3 | `CSIT-1851                              | trending regression: various icelake tests around 2202-04-15                                              |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1851>`_ | Somewhat expected consequence of a VPP usability fix,                                                     |
+|    |                                         | the previous VPP compiler version was too new for the OS used.                                            |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+.. _vpp_rca:
+
+Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
+-------------------------------------------
+
+List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                  |
++====+=========================================+====================================================================+
+|  1 | `CSIT-1887                              | rls2210 RCA: ASTF tests                                            |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1887>`_ | TRex upgrade decreased TRex performance. NAT results not affected, |
+|    |                                         | except on Denverton due to interference from VPP-2010.             |
++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  2 | `CSIT-1888                              | rls2210 RCA: testbed differences, especially for ipsec             |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1888>`_ | Not caused by VPP code nor CSIT code.                              |
+|    |                                         | Most probable cause is clang-14 behavior.                          |
++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+