Update perf release notes 1904
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@@ -6,82 +6,51 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
 
 #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
 
-   - **BMRR Throughput**: MRR (Maximum Receive Rate) test code has been
-     updated with a configurable burst MRR parameters: trial duration
-     and number of trials in a single burst. Enables a new Burst MRR
-     (BMRR for short) methodology for more precise performance
-     trending. See updated :ref:`performance_test_methodology` section
-     for more details.
+   - **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.
 
-   - **2n-skx tests**: Added performamce tests for 2n-skx (2-Node Xeon
-     Skylake) testbeds: focus on baseline and scale tests, including
-     VM vhost and Container memif tests.
-
-   - **3n-skx tests**: Added performamce tests for 3n-skx (3-Node Xeon
-     Skylake) testbeds: VM vhost and Container memif tests.
-
-   - **VXLAN Scale Tests**: Added performamce tests for VXLAN scale with
-     dot1q and VPP L2BD.
-
-   - **AVF Driver Tests**: Added performamce tests for i40e AVF driver
-     on VPP, no DPDK required.
-
-   - **QAT**: Fixed reoccuring issues with QAT crypto accelerator cards.
-
-   - **VM Vhost Virtio Params Combinations**: Added performance tests
-     for VM vhost with different virtio parameters combinations:
-     indirect buffers, mergeable buffers.
-
-   - **K8s/Ligato in Trending**: Added K8s/Ligato Container memif tests
-     to daily trending.
-
-#. TEST FRAMEWORK
-
-   - **Experimental Soak Tests**: Added performamce soak tests framework
+   - **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, months, years. See updated
-     :ref:`performance_test_methodology` section for more details.
-
-   - **Trending Tests BMRR**: Used new Burst MRR (BMRR) tests for daily
-     trending.
+     days, weeks. See updated
+     :ref:`test_methodology` section for more details.
 
-   - **Per VPP Patch Performance Checks**: Per VPP gerrit patch vs.
-     parent performance tests, anomaly detection and no verify voting
-     (-1/0/+1) yet. Manual trigger only. Not "marketed" to FD.io
-     community yet to avoid excessive LFN FD.io physical performance
-     testbed blocking.
+#. TEST FRAMEWORK
 
-   - **Patch-on-Patch Infra**: Added capability to run performance tests
-     using CSIT gerrit patch code testing VPP gerrit patch code, i.e.
-     before any VPP and/or CSIT code is merged into git branch.
+   - **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.
 
-   - **CSIT PAPI Support**: Initial implementation of PAPI L1 KWs in
-     CSIT using VPP Python bindings. Required for migraing away from
-     VAT. Very few L1 KWs implemented ("show version", "show
-     interfaces").
+   - **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. Master report
-     generated. 744 graphs(!)
-
-   - **Performance Trending**: Further improvements of continuous
-     performance trending, anomaly detection and analysis.
+     labels, descriptions, other informative decoration.
 
-#. MISCELLANEOUS
+..
+    #. MISCELLANEOUS
 
-   - **3n-dnv Tests (3rd Party)**: Published performance tests for 3n-
-     dnv (3-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.
+       - **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.
 
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@@ -94,22 +63,24 @@ Known Issues
 
 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-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.                                                                              |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| #  | 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>`_ |                                                                                                          |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+