report: update to vpp performance release notes
[csit.git] / docs / report / vpp_performance_tests / csit_release_notes.rst
index 4f448c2..4f986eb 100644 (file)
@@ -8,76 +8,33 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
 
 #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
 
-   - **AF_XDP**: Added af_xdp driver support for all test cases. Test
-     results will be added in sub-sequent CSIT-2106 report.
-
-   - **GTPU tunnel**: Added GTPU HW Offload IPv4 routing tests.
-
-   - **Intel Xeon Ice Lake**: Added initial test data for these
-     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 details about the
-     physical setup see :ref:`tested_physical_topologies`. Tested
-     VPP and CSIT versions are pre-release, VPP
-     21.06-rc0~779-gd640ae52f.
-
-   - **MLRsearch improvements**: Added support for multiple packet
-     throughput rates in a single search, each rate is associated
-     with a distinct Packet Loss Ratio (PLR) criterion. Previously
-     only Non Drop Rate (NDR) (PLR=0) and single Partial Drop Rate
-     (PDR) (PLR<0.5%) were supported. Implemented number of
-     optimizations improving rate discovery efficiency.
-
-   - **Reduction of tests**: Removed obsolete VPP use cases and
-     superfluous test combinations from continuous and report test
-     executions, including:
-
-     - All vts tests, obsolete use cases.
-     - dot1q tests apart from dot1q-l2bd, superfluous combinations.
-     - -100flows, -100kflows in all acl tests.
-     - nat44 tests
-
-       - -pps tests, replaced by -tput tests.
-       - h1-p1-s1 single session tests, unessential combination.
-       - h4096-p63-s258048 tests, unessential scale combination.
-
-     - ipsec tests
-
-       - ethip4ipsectptlispgpe.
-       - policy-aes128gcm.
-       - policy-aes128cbc-hmac256sha.
-       - policy-aes128cbc-hmac512sha.
-       - int-aes128cbc-hmac256sha.
-       - scale of
-
-         - 400tnlsw.
-         - 5000tnlsw.
-         - 20000tnlsw.
-         - 60000tnlsw.
+   - **Intel Xeon Ice Lake**: Performance test data for these platforms
+     continues to be provided by external Intel benchmarking labs
+     executing |csit-release| tests. For details about the physical
+     setup see :ref:`tested_physical_topologies`.
 
-#. TEST FRAMEWORK
+   - **AWS EC2 c5n**: Performance test data for AWS c5n instances has
+     been added to report for ip4, ip6 and ipsec tests.
 
-   - **Telemetry retouch**: Refactored telemetry retrieval from DUTs and
-     SUTs. Included VPP perfmon plugin telemetry with all perfmon
-     bundles available in VPP release.
+   - **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.
 
-   - **Upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS**: Re-installed base operating system
-     to Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. Upgrade included also baseline Docker
-     containers used for spawning topology.
+#. TEST FRAMEWORK
 
-   - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 7, see
+   - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 8, see
      :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
 
-   - **CSIT in AWS environment**: Added CSIT support for AWS c5n
-     instances environment. Test results will be added in sub-sequent
-     CSIT-2106 report.
+   - **CSIT in AWS environment**: Completed CSIT automation support for
+     AWS c5n instances environment, including weekly performance 
+     trending tests execution.
 
-   - **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, CLI is used in CSIT for many VPP scale tests.
+     See known issues below.
 
    - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug
-     fixes. 
+     fixes.
 
 #. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
 
@@ -98,7 +55,7 @@ List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests:
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | #  | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
-|  1 | `CSIT-1782                              | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface.                                          |
+|  1 | `CSIT-1782                              | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface. The issue persists after FVL FW upgrade. |
 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1782>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 |  2 | `CSIT-1763                              | Adapt ramp-up phase of nat44 tests for different frame sizes.                                             |
@@ -110,6 +67,21 @@ List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests:
 |    | `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.                                                                                                 |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  4 | `CSIT-1789                              | AVF driver does not perform RSS in a deterministic way.                                                   |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1789>`_ | This increases standard deviation of tests with small number of flows (mainly ipsec).                     |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  5 | `CSIT-1780                              | IPSEC SW async scheduler MRR tests failing with no traffic forwarded.                                     |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1780>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  6 | `CSIT-1786                              | IP4 and IP6 scale tests failing with no traffic forwarded.                                                |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1786>`_ | Issue reported to VPP devs.                                                                               |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  7 | `CSIT-1785                              | NAT44ED tests failing to establish all TCP sessions.                                                      |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1785>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  8 | `CSIT-1791                              | Performance regression in RDMA tests, due to CSIT environment changes.                                    |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1791>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 
 Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
 -------------------------------------------
@@ -119,6 +91,6 @@ List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | #  | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
-|  1 | `VPP-1972                               | One VPP change has decreased performance of NAT44ed processing, both slow path and fast path.             |
+|  1 | `VPP-1972                               | One VPP change has decreased performance of NAT44ed processing, mostly slow path.                         |
 |    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1972>`_  |                                                                                                           |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+