#. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
- - **MRR Throughput**: MRR (Maximum Receive Rate) test code has now
- configurable trial duration and number of consecutive executions.
- Coverage of MRR tests has been extended across more test
- scenarios. MRR tests are used for continuous performance trending
- and for comparison between VPP releases.
-
- - **MLRsearch Throughput**: MLRsearch algorithm has been introduced
- for all NDR and PDR throughput tests. All tests that previously
- used binary search got converted to MLRsearch. Coverage of NDR/PDR
- tests has been extended across more test scenarios.
-
- - **L2patch Tests**: Tests measure performance of VPP L2patch, the
- fastest L2 forwarding path implemented in VPP, that cross-links
- RX and TX of two physical interfaces.
-
- - **2-Node Tests**: A new baseline set of 2-node tests covering base
- ip4, ip6, l2patch, l2bd, l2xc, running on new Xeon Skylake
- testbeds.
-
- - **Generated tests**: Simplified and unified test structure, semi-
- autogenerated by generator script. Test generator is currently
- able to create test combinations with various frame size and
- cores combinations. All existing test cases were converted to new
- format.
-
- - **Simultaneous Multi-Threading**: SMT-aware detection of server
- processor operation mode (HyperThreading enabled/disabled) with
- associated compute resource configuration including thread
- affinity, number of Rx queues and DPDK I/O mbufs. Tests are
- automatically tagged during execution to indicate executed thread
- configuration.
-
- - **Intel Xeon Skylake Support**: Support for 2-Node and 3-Node
- physical testbed topologies based on the new SuperMirco servers
- each with two Intel Xeon Skylake Platinum processors. Full
- Ansible playbooks refactor for quick server (re)installation and
- reference pointers of configuration.
+ - **Service density 2n-skx tests**: Added higher NF density tests with two
+ NFs' data-plane threads sharing a physical core. VPP IPv4 routing is now
+ used as a VNF payload similar to CNF tests.
-#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
+ - **Soak Tests**: Optimized performamce soak tests framework
+ code for extended time duration tests and throughput discovery
+ at given PLR and at give total test time e.g. minutes, hours,
+ days, weeks. See updated
+ :ref:`test_methodology` section for more details.
+
+#. TEST FRAMEWORK
- - **Performance trending**: Further improvements of continuous
- performance trending, anomaly detection and analysis.
+ - **Qemu code refactor**: Complete code refactor of the key components of
+ QemuUtil.py and QemuManager.py (L1 and L2 KW counterparts). Added
+ implementation of kernel-image-kvm based VM replacing the previously used
+ NestedVM images. Added ability to run VPP as a payload in VNF.
-#. TEST FRAMEWORK OPTIMIZATIONS
+ - **CSIT PAPI Support**: Continued conversion of CSIT VAT L1 keywords to
+ PAPI L1 KWs in CSIT using VPP Python bindings. Redesign of key components
+ of PAPI Executor and PAPI history.
- **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing RF keywords optimizations,
removal of redundant RF keywords.
+ - **Test suite generator**: Added capability to generate suites for
+ different NIC models as well as throughput search algorithm types. Uses
+ base tests suites as source.
+
+ - **TOX verification**: Added verifications for test suite generator.
+
+#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
+
+ - **Graphs Layout Improvements**: Improved performance graphs layout
+ for better readibility and maintenance: test grouping, axis
+ labels, descriptions, other informative decoration.
+
+..
+ #. MISCELLANEOUS
+
+ - **2n-dnv Tests (3rd Party)**: Published performance tests for 2n-
+ dnv (2-Node Atom Denverton) from 3rd party testbeds running FD.io
+ |csit-release| automated testing code.
+ Only graphs for Packet Throughput and Speedup Multi-core and not
+ for Packet Latency were published as there are no results for Packet
+ Latency available.
+
.. raw:: latex
\clearpage
List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests:
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
-+====+=========================================+=================================================================================================================================+
-| 1 | `CSIT-570 | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures on x520. DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-570>`_ | Suspected issue with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed outside of LF testbeds. |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 2 | `CSIT-1234 | VPP IPSecHW scale interface mode 1core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-hsw testbeds, in CSIT-18.07 vs. CSIT-18.04. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1234>`_ | ip4ipsecscale1000tnl-ip4base-int 1core CSIT-18.07/18.04 relative change: NDR -31%, PDR -32%, MRR -38%. |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 3 | `CSIT-1242 | VPP xl710 ip4base test 1core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-hsw testbeds, in CSIT-18.07 vs. CSIT-18.04. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1242>`_ | xl710 ip4base 1core CSIT-18.07/18.04 relative change: NDR -29%, high stdev. |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 4 | `CSIT-1243 | VPP nat44 base test 2core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-skx testbeds, compared to 3n-hsw testbeds. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1243>`_ | ip4base-nat44 2core 3n-skx/3n-hsw relative change: NDR -19%, PDR -22%. |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 5 | `CSIT-1245 | VPP srv6proxy-stat and srv6proxy-masq, much higher NDR and PDR 78B throughput in 3n-hsw testbeds, in CSIT-18.07 vs. CSIT-18.04. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1245>`_ | Due to wrong test suite configuration in dynamic-proxy mode. Artefact of suite code refactoring. |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 6 | `CSIT-1246 | Ligato K8S orchestrated tests are failing due to incompatibility of the latest released Ligato vpp-agent with VPP-18.07. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1246>`_ | Past vpp-agent releases are not compatible either. |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 7 | `CSIT-1253 | VPP lbdpdk link bonding tests failing due to interfaces not coming up. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1253>`_ | VPP lbdpdk link bonding tests relying on DPDK functionality for bonding fail. |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+==========================================================================================================+
+| 1 | `CSIT-570 | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures on x520. DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-570>`_ | Suspected issue with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed outside of LF testbeds. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `CSIT-1503 | [`TRex-519 <https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/youtrack/issue/trex-519>`_] XL710/XXV710 with FW 6.0.1 will have |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1503>`_ | Rx drop rate of 27MPPS. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `CSIT-1501 | Sporadic crypto backend fails loading `VPP-1670 <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1670>`_ |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1501>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 4 | `CSIT-1427 | Sporadic HW aes-128-cbc-sha1 tunnel-interface tests are failing. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1427>`_ | `VPP-1671 <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1671>`_ |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 5 | `CSIT-1498 | Memif tests are sporadically failing on initialization of memif connection. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1498>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 6 | `CSIT-1499 | AVF tests are sporadically failing on initialization of AVF interface. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1499>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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