#. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
- - **Intel Xeon Ice Lake**: Performance test data for these platforms
- continues to be provided by external Intel benchmarking labs
- executing |csit-release| tests. For details about the physical
- setup see :ref:`tested_physical_topologies`.
-
- - **AWS EC2 c5n**: Performance test data for AWS c5n instances has
- been added to report for ip4, ip6 and ipsec tests.
-
- **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.
#. TEST FRAMEWORK
- - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 8, see
- :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
+ - **Removed ASTF PPS tests**: They provide no real benefit
+ compared to TPUT tests. The ip4base variants renamed to TPUT.
- - **CSIT in AWS environment**: Completed CSIT automation support for
- AWS c5n instances environment, including weekly performance
- trending tests execution.
+ - **Changed TCP TPUT profiles**: The previous ones were found to be faulty.
+ The new ones do not use bursts of packets to avoid CSIT-1830 and CSIT-1846.
+
+ - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 10, see
+ :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
- **CSIT PAPI support**: Due to issues with PAPI performance, and
- deprecation of VAT, CLI is used in CSIT for many VPP scale tests.
- See known issues below.
+ deprecation of VAT, VPP CLI is used in CSIT for many VPP scale
+ tests. See :ref:`vpp_known_issues`.
- **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug
fixes.
Known Issues
------------
-List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests:
+New
+___
+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+| 1 | `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. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `CSIT-1830 | All testbeds: All TCP tput (and pps) tests are failing for small packets. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1830>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `CSIT-1832 | 3n-alt: NDR 1 packet lost on random tests. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1832>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 4 | `CSIT-1834 | 2n-icx, 2n-skx: sporadic AVF soak tests failing to find critical load with PLRsearch. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1834>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 5 | `CSIT-1846 | 2n-skx, 2n-clx, 2n-icx: ALL 1518B TCP tput tests failing with big packet loss. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1846>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 6 | `CSIT-1847 | 2n-skx: all 10vm-1t test failed with half of packets dropped. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1847>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 7 | `CSIT-1849 | 2n-skx: UDP 16m tput tests fail to create all sessions. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1849>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Previous
+________
+
+Issues reported in previous releases which still affect the current results.
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
+====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
-| 1 | `CSIT-1782 | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface. The issue persists after FVL FW upgrade. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1782>`_ | |
+| 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>`_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 2 | `CSIT-1763 | Adapt ramp-up phase of nat44 tests for different frame sizes. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1763>`_ | Currently ramp-up phase rate and duration values are correctly set for tests with 64B frame size. |
+| 3 | `CSIT-1802 | AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1802>`_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 3 | `CSIT-1671 | All CSIT scale tests can not use PAPI due to much slower performance compared to VAT/CLI (it takes much |
+| 4 | `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>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 5 | `CSIT-1804 | 3n-tsh, 3n-alt testbed (Taishan, Altra): NDR tests failing from time to time. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1804>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 6 | `CSIT-1812 | All IMIX NAT44DET 4m 16m scale tests fail due to not creating required session count. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1812>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 7 | `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. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 8 | `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. |
-| +-----------------------------------------+ The usual PAPI library spends too much time parsing arguments, so even with async processing (hundreds of |
-| | `VPP-1763 | commands in flight over socket), the VPP configuration for large scale tests (millions of messages) takes |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1763>`_ | too long. |
+| +-----------------------------------------+ 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. |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 4 | `CSIT-1789 | AVF driver does not perform RSS in a deterministic way. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1789>`_ | This increases standard deviation of tests with small number of flows (mainly ipsec). |
+| 9 | `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>`_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 5 | `CSIT-1780 | IPSEC SW async scheduler MRR tests failing with no traffic forwarded. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1780>`_ | |
+| 10 | `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-1786 | IP4 and IP6 scale tests failing with no traffic forwarded. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1786>`_ | Issue reported to VPP devs. |
+| 11 | `CSIT-1808 | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over memif interfaces. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1808>`_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 7 | `CSIT-1785 | NAT44ED tests failing to establish all TCP sessions. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1785>`_ | |
+| 12 | `CSIT-1809 | All tests with 9000B payload frames not forwarded over vhostuser interfaces. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1809>`_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 8 | `CSIT-1791 | Performance regression in RDMA tests, due to CSIT environment changes. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1791>`_ | |
+
+Fixed
+_____
+
+Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release:
+
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
+| 1 | `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>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `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>`_ | |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `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. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+.. _vpp_rca:
Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes
-------------------------------------------
List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes:
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
-+====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+
-| 1 | `VPP-1972 | One VPP change has decreased performance of NAT44ed processing, mostly slow path. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1972>`_ | |
-+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
++----+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| # | JiraID | Issue Description |
++====+=========================================+=====================================================================================+
+| 1 | `CSIT-1851 | trending regression: various icelake tests around 2202-04-15 |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1851>`_ | Somewhat expected consequence of a VPP usability fix, |
+| | | the previous VPP compiler version was too new for the OS used. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 2 | `VPP-2030 | regression: ip6base on ICX around 2022-03-23 |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-2030>`_ | "Loads blocked due to overlapping with a preceding store that cannot be forwarded." |
+| | | started happening in ip6-lookup graph node. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 3 | `CSIT-1852 | 2n-zn2 mellanox performance cap |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1852>`_ | Old issue, only now distinguished from CSIT-1751. |
+| | | This testbed+nic combination is capped below 28 Mpps, cause not identified yet. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| 4 | `CSIT-1853 | trending regression: nat44ed cps around 2202-04-01 |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1853>`_ | VPP change added more computation to slow path (in order to support multiple VRFs). |
+| | | Not clear if the VPP implementation is optimized enough. |
++----+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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