DOC: 1908rls release notes for VPP Hoststack TCP performance tests.
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@@ -6,80 +6,64 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
 
 #. 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
+     802.1q (vlan) and 802.1ad (vxlan) encapsulation from Traffic Generator.
 
-#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
+   - **GBP tests**: Added GBP routing test cases with 802.1q (vlan) external
+     traffic.
+
+   - **AVF IPv4 scale tests**: Increased coverage of AVF IPv4 base and scale
+     test cases.
+
+   - **2n-skx tests**: Increased coverage of selected (COP, iACL, Policer)
+     test cases.
 
-   - **Performance trending**: Further improvements of continuous
-     performance trending, anomaly detection and analysis.
+   - **IPsec scale tests**: Added IPsec interface mode scale tests with
+     1, 40, 400, 1000, 5000, 10000, 20000, 40000, 60000 tunnels. Removed DPDK
+     backend dependency.
 
-#. TEST FRAMEWORK OPTIMIZATIONS
+   - **Hoststack TCP tests**: Added Hoststack TCP performance tests
+     using WRK to the HTTP static server plugin measuring connections
+     per second and requests per second.
+
+#. TEST FRAMEWORK
+
+   - **CSIT PAPI Support**: Finished 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. Currently the only exception is
+     usage of VAT command for scale configuration.
 
    - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing RF keywords optimizations,
-     removal of redundant RF keywords.
+     removal of redundant RF keywords and aligning of suite/test
+     setup/teardowns.
+
+
+#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
+
+   - **Graphs Layout Improvements**: Improved performance graphs layout
+     for better readibility and maintenance: test grouping, axis
+     labels, descriptions, other informative decoration.
+
+.. raw:: latex
+
+    \clearpage
+
+.. _vpp_known_issues:
 
 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 | `VPP-1361                               | High failure rate of api call sw_interface_set_flags [admin-up|link-up].                                                        |
-|   | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1361>`_  | Failure rate: 30-40% of tests failing due to interfaces not in link-up state after API call sw_interface_set_flags.             |
-+---+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 3 | `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%.                          |
-+---+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 4 | `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.                                                     |
-+---+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 5 | `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%.                                                          |
-+---+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 6 | `CSIT-1244                              | VPP lispip4 base test 2core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-skx testbeds, compared to 3n-hsw testbeds.                    |
-|   | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1244>`_ | ip4lispip4-ip4base 2core 3n-skx/3n-hsw relative change: NDR -11%, PDR -18%.                                                     |
-+---+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 7 | `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.                                |
-+---+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| #  | 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-1499                              | AVF tests are sporadically failing on initialization of AVF interface.                                   |
+|    | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1499>`_ |                                                                                                          |
++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+