#. 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.
+ - CSIT test environment is versioned, see
+ :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
- - **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.
+ - To identify performance changes due to VPP code changes from
+ v20.01.0 to v20.05.0, both have been tested in CSIT environment
+ ver. 4 and compared against each other. All substantial
+ progressions has been marked up with RCA analysis. See
+ :ref:`vpp_compare_current_vs_previous_release` and
+ :ref:`vpp_known_issues`.
#. TEST FRAMEWORK
- - **Experimental Soak Tests**: Added 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.
-
- - **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.
-
- - **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.
-
- - **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**: Due to issues with PAPI performance, VAT is
+ still used in CSIT for all VPP scale tests. See known issues below.
- **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
+ - **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.
-
-#. 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.
+ labels, descriptions, other informative decoration.
.. raw:: latex
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 | `VPP-662 | 9000B packets not supported by NICs VIC1227 and VIC1387. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-662>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `VPP-1677 | 9000B ip4 nat44: VPP crash + coredump. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1677>`_ | VPP crashes very often in case that NAT44 is configured and it has to process IP4 jumbo frames (9000B). |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 4 | `CSIT-1591 | 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-1499>`_ | longer to program VPP). This needs to be addressed on the PAPI side. |
+| +-----------------------------------------+ |
+| | `VPP-1763 | |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1763>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 5 | `VPP-1675 | IPv4 IPSEC 9000B packet tests are failing as no packet is forwarded. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1675>`_ | Reason: chained buffers are not supported. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 6 | `CSIT-1593 | IPv4 AVF 9000B packet tests are failing on 3n-skx while passing on 2n-skx. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1593>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 7 | `CSIT-1679 | 2n-clx VPP ip4 tests with xxv710 and avf driver are sporadically failing. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1679>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
+-------------------------------------------
+
+List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+| 1 | `CSIT-1731 | Confirm the cause for ip4scale -rnd regressions. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1731>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `CSIT-1735 | Identify cause of ethip6-ip6scale2m progression. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1735>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `CSIT-1738 | Identify cause for vppl2xc CSIT progressions. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1738>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 4 | `CSIT-1739 | Identify cause of ACL regressions. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1739>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 5 | `CSIT-1740 | Identify cause for avf-eth-l2xcbase CSIT progression. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1740>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 6 | `CSIT-1741 | Identify cause for vppl2xc VPP regressions. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1741>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 7 | `CSIT-1742 | Identify cause of ipsec CSIT regression. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1742>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 8 | `CSIT-1744 | Identify cause of memif VPP progression. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1744>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 9 | `CSIT-1745 | Verify cause of l2bdscale10kmaclrn VPP progression. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1745>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 10 | `CSIT-1746 | Identify cause for avf-dot1q-ip6base VPP progression. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1746>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 11 | `CSIT-1747 | Identify cause of ip4base-nat44 VPP progression. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1747>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 12 | `CSIT-1748 | Identify cause of aes128cbc-hmac512sha VPP progression. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1748>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 13 | `CSIT-1749 | Identify cause for l2bdbasemaclrn VPP progression in tests with dpdk app in VM. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1749>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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