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@@ -8,53 +8,46 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
 
 #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
 
-   - **Regressions with DPDK drivers**: Change from DPDK v21.08 to DPDK
-     v21.11 introduced regression across all tests using dpdk
-     drivers (with dpdk_plugin loaded). Compared to previous VPP
-     release performance drop varies in the range of -15% to -6%,
-     depending on test. It is related to updated MTU checks within
-     DPDK code and associated VPP code changes. See
-     `VPP v2202 release notes <https://s3-docs.fd.io/vpp/22.02/aboutvpp/releasenotes/v22.02.html>`_
-     and :ref:`vpp_known_issues`.
-
-   - **Number of CSIT 9000B frame tests failing**: tests with higher
-     encapsulation overhead are failing due to exceeding default
-     Ethernet Maximum Frame Size value that has been reduced by MTU
-     related VPP code changes. See
-     `VPP v2202 release notes <https://s3-docs.fd.io/vpp/22.02/aboutvpp/releasenotes/v22.02.html>`_
-     and :ref:`vpp_known_issues`.
-
-   - **Intel Xeon Ice Lake**: Performance test data for these platforms
-     is now provided by testbeds newly installed in FD.io CSIT labs.
-     For details about the physical setup see
-     :ref:`physical_testbeds_2n_icx` and
-     :ref:`physical_testbeds_3n_icx`.
-
-   - **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.
-
-   - **RC2 coverage test data is used for 2n-icx test bed**: There is only
-     one 2n-icx test bed and the amount of tests is large (same as 2n-skx with 4
-     test beds), so we decided to use test data already available from RC2
-     testing.
+   - **Enhanced and added VPP hoststack tests** to daily and weekly
+     trending including: Quic VPP Echo, UDP+TCP LD_PRELOAD iPerf3,
+     LD_PRELOAD NGINX.
+
+   - **Added Nvidia/Mellanox DPDK tests** to daily and weekly trending
+     and report, in addition to RDMA_CORE ones that were already
+     there.
+
+   - **Jumbo frames tests** got fixed and re-added number of to report
+     coverage tests.
+
+   - **Intel Xeon SKX performance testbeds** got decommissioned and
+     removed from FD.io performance lab.
 
 #. TEST FRAMEWORK
 
-   - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 10, see
-     :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
+   - **CSIT test environment** version has not changed from ver. 11 used
+     in previous release, see :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
 
-   - **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`.
+   - **CSIT PAPI optimizations for scale** got applied improving PAPI
+     programming speed especially for large scale tests. VAT has been
+     now completely deprecated from CSIT.
 
    - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug
      fixes.
 
 #. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
 
-   - **Graphs improvements**: Updated Packet Latency graphs,
-     see :ref:`latency_methodology`.
+   - `Performance dashboard <http://csit.fd.io/>`_ got updated with
+     addition of VPP telemetry trending across all VPP tests. A number
+     of code and AWS resource usage optimizations got applied to the
+     data processing pipeline and UI frontend and backend.
+
+   - Examples of release iterative data visualisation:
+
+     - `Packet throughput 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base-scale-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrdVcluwjAQ_Zr0ggbZDml64QDkP5BxhhJlwYxNVPr1OAhpYiGO7cEHb3pv1qeRnT8T7h1266zYZuU2U2VThy3LN4twUOdULhSM1oLKl-FG2KF2CGqAxvyAFOIblZX4JYW5gB6P0NgVfK4OIA2gP02vsA6Tja1pcq12T9cvcRitr57RED1CRiQGo7SYZk-3GeddsszXhJoNQsYMeXSzZOKamHUk3aNrfpGpoQuMm9BohqSJ_fubnaHPRpXVg_F3qjijO1RCtEBDnZo8UXFJ6NQmKlGbgjp9ujPU_8cEFdXHcKb-8Q8V1R2PI8PX>`_
+     - `Speedup Multi-Core throughput graph for 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrtlM8OgjAMxp8GL6aGFRAvHlTew8xRhAR1bpOoT-8wJIUYEg8mXjjsX35fu65fMusuhvaW6nWQbIN0G2Ba5X4Kos3cL6a2GIUIjdaA0cLvDNUkLQGeoVJ3EGF4JNSCViJUV5BNAZWOYRkfQCggV7YnPw5tjM5Nmxp3XeqPe5jmN8fU3z4gDRmGg7JYpstHTzNWLOulIckBvmJGjmyvmOGbWFUYeSJbPYmlvgvMlW80I6GG-d1D92jXqDR7K37qCk6ujLuC_3IlnlwZdyX-0pUkm50v5vT-yZLsBXP6Swk>`_
+     - `MRR, NDR and PDR comparison for 2n-icx-e810cq-ip4-base <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrtVMsOgjAQ_Bq8mDW0gHjxoPIfppZVSQDrthLx6y2GuBBj4kVPHvrKzG6nM0mtOxFuLZbLIFkH6TqQaZH7KYhWU79QaWUUSmiMARnN_I6wRGURZA2FvoIIwwNKI3AhQn0G1eyhMDHM4x0IDeiO3cmPXVdTEXWt5aZv_XIPo_nFMepvHyENEoMjWUwzx3bAeSeW-YpQcYFXzJBDOxAzfhOz9qQqtMUNmepdYFx7oxkSetzftWaA9kal2YPx5VTq_J_KR6n0Rv0mFfNP5bNUzDOVJJvUJ6oeP1mS3QG2H0sT>`_
+     - `Normalized throughput architecture comparison for 2n-[icx|clx]-e810cq-ip4-base-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrVk00OgjAQhU-DGzOGFhA3LlTuYUoZhKRibSsRT28hJANRF-500b98rzOvM6l1F4NHi2obJPsg3Qc8rQs_BdFu6RejLI9CDq3WwKOV3xlUKCwCb0CqO7AwPCHXDDcslFcQbQm1jmEd58AkoKv6kx95f0cXpg_ND2PolzxEi5sj6rPPSIuG4MwWyXTVTTSfzJJeGBR0wTsm5NBOzMzfRKrSiDPa-oEk9VUgLn2hCTE5j-86PaFjodJsUHzXlVr-UVfem_35riTZormY8_BneNpvhRpzJNkT6FzkMw>`_
+     - `NICs comparison for 2n-icx-ip4-base-pdr <https://csit.fd.io/report/#eNrll99ugyAUh5_G3SxnESx1N7to53s0FI6rmbYMnKF7-qFrcmRmV7vReuG__A74wSckuvZi8eCwfknEPsn3Cc8rHU5JtnsMF1s7nqUcOmOAZ0_hzmKN0iHwM6jaA0vTN-SGKS_EVkJTewGV2cB2cwSmANtT_xSOY9_IaNv3zV9vfU9eRKn-bCkNr4-SDi2FEReVmdN1VPMnLTWQFiW1CMgUtehGNPGgqKq0skFXfSGVhmmgXIWppoipuP_2akbpbabyYqj4txerG7kcLz3tnXvBZ5aqD5BduQAtBLsOK9ro9-Vo6Wnv1sswUJ-zdPZLJSJdgY_ZL5IY9U6NcPEzTN8NX14JXpsZW_mNewi46zAz691rwroKJzPfwaaws7ciiofzxTbDv6QovgETwNPp>`_
 
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@@ -65,52 +58,17 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
 Known Issues
 ------------
 
+Editing Note: below listed known issues need to be updated to reflect the current state as tracked on `CSIT TestFailuresTracking wiki <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/TestFailuresTracking>`_.
+
 New
 ___
 
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
-|  1 | `CSIT-1799                              | All NAT44-ED 16M scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range.                                      |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1799>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  2 | `CSIT-1800                              | All Geneve L3 mode scale tests (1024 tunnels) are failing.                                                |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1800>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  3 | `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).                                                                                                    |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  4 | `CSIT-1808                              | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces.                                  |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1808>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  5 | `CSIT-1809                              | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over vhostuser interfaces.                              |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1809>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  6 | `CSIT-1802                              | AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time.                                                             |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1802>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  7 | `CSIT-1803                              | 3n-icx testbeds (Icelake): all IMIX aes128cbc-hmac512sha tests are failing due to excessive packet loss.  |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1803>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  8 | `CSIT-1804                              | 3n-tsh testbed (Taishan): NDR tests failing from time to time.                                            |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1804>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  9 | `CSIT-1805                              | 3n-skx testbeds (Skylake): all hoststack quic vppecho scale tests are failing.                            |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1805>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 10 | `CSIT-1810                              | DPDK - performance regression with DPDK driver when Max Frame Size is set to less than 2023.              |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1810>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-|    +-----------------------------------------+                                                                                                           |
-|    | `VPP-1876                               | Worse performance with DPDK driver when MTU is set to 2022 or less.                                       |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1876>`_  |                                                                                                           |
+|  1 | `CSIT-1890                              | 3n-alt: Tests failing until 40Ge Interface comes up.                                                      |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1890>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 11 | `CSIT-1811                              | All 9000B NAT44DET 64k 1m scale tests fail due to bps rate set to high on TRex.                           |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1811>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 12 | `CSIT-1812                              | All IMIX NAT44DET 4m 16m scale tests fail due to not creating required session count.                     |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1812>`_ |                                                                                                           |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
 
 Previous
 ________
@@ -123,20 +81,56 @@ Issues reported in previous releases which still affect the current results.
 |  1 | `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.                         |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  2 | `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.                                       |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  3 | `CSIT-1785                              | NAT44ED tests failing to establish all TCP sessions.                                                      |
+|  2 | `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-1791                              | Performance regression in RDMA tests, due to CSIT environment changes.                                    |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1791>`_ | Two symptoms: 1. 10-20% regression across most tests. 2. DUT performance cap just below 38 Mpps.          |
+|  3 | `CSIT-1799                              | All NAT44-ED 16M sessions CPS scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range.                         |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1799>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  4 | `CSIT-1800                              | All Geneve L3 mode scale tests (1024 tunnels) are failing.                                                |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1800>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  5 | `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).                                                                                                    |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  6 | `CSIT-1802                              | all testbeds: AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time.                                               |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1802>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  7 | `CSIT-1804                              | All testbeds: NDR tests failing from time to time.                                                        |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1804>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  8 | `CSIT-1808                              | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces.                                  |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1808>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  9 | `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.                                                                                              |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 10 | `CSIT-1835                              | 3n-icx: QUIC vppecho BPS tests failing on timeout when checking hoststack finished.                       |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1835>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 11 | `CSIT-1849                              | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: UDP 16m TPUT tests fail to create all sessions.                                   |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1849>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 12 | `CSIT-1864                              | 2n-clx: half of the packets lost on PDR tests.                                                            |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1864>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 13 | `CSIT-1877                              | 3n-tsh: all VM tests failing to boot VM.                                                              |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1877>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 14 | `CSIT-1883                              | 3n-snr: All hwasync wireguard tests failing when trying to verify device.                                 |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1883>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 15 | `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>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 16 | `CSIT-1885                              | 3n-icx: 9000b ip4 ip6 l2 NDRPDR AVF tests are failing to forward traffic.                                 |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1885>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 17 | `CSIT-1886                              | 3n-icx: Wireguard tests with 100 and more tunnels are failing PDR criteria.                               |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1886>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 
 Fixed
@@ -147,42 +141,32 @@ Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release:
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 |  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                                                                         |
 +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
-|  1 | `CSIT-1789                              | IPSEC SW async scheduler tests show bad behavior.                                                         |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1789>`_ | VPP code is not behaving correctly when crypto workers are the bottleneck.                                |
-|    +-----------------------------------------+                                                                                                           |
-|    | `VPP-1998                               |                                                                                                           |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1998>`_  |                                                                                                           |
+|  1 | `CSIT-1868                              | 2n-clx: ALL ldpreload-nginx tests fails when trying to start nginx.                                       |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1868>`_ |                                                                                                           |
 +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  2 | `CSIT-1871                              | 3n-snr: 25GE interface between SUT and TG/TRex goes down randomly.                                        |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1871>`_ |                                                                                                           |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+.. _vpp_rca:
 
 Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
 -------------------------------------------
 
 List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
 
-+----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  # | JiraID                                  | Issue Description                                            |
-+====+=========================================+==============================================================+
-|  1 | `CSIT-1814                              | rls2202 regression: NAT44ED CPS larger scales.               |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1814>`_ |                                                              |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  2 | `CSIT-1815                              | rls2202 regression: l2bdbasemaclrn around 2021-11-11.        |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1815>`_ |                                                              |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  3 | `CSIT-1816                              | rls2202 regression: l2-input.                                |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1816>`_ |                                                              |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  4 | `CSIT-1820                              | rls2202 regression: tx2 ip6base at dpdk upgrade.             |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1820>`_ |                                                              |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  5 | `CSIT-1821                              | rls2202 regression: tx2 ip6base before dpdk upgrade.         |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1821>`_ |                                                              |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  6 | `CSIT-1822                              | rls2202 regression: avf-ip4base around 2022-01-06.           |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1822>`_ |                                                              |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  7 | `CSIT-1823                              | rls2202 regression: vxlan-l2xcbase on tsh around 2022-01-07. |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1823>`_ |                                                              |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
-|  8 | `CSIT-1824                              | rls2202 regression: SRv6.                                    |
-|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1824>`_ |                                                              |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  # | 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.                          |
++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|  3 | `CSIT-1889                              | rls2210 RCA: policy-outbound-nocrypto                              |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1889>`_ | When VPP added spd fast path matching (Gerrit 36097),              |
+|    |                                         | it decreased MRR of the corresponding tests, at least on 3-alt.    |
++----+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+