Changes in CSIT |release|\r
-------------------------\r
\r
-#. Test environment changes in VPP data plane performance tests:\r
-\r
- - Further characterization and optimizations of VPP vhost-user and VM\r
- test methodology and test environment;\r
-\r
- - Tests with varying Qemu virtio queue (a.k.a. vring) sizes:\r
- [vr256] default 256 descriptors, [vr1024] 1024 descriptors to\r
- optimize for packet throughput;\r
-\r
- - Tests with varying Linux CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler)\r
- settings: [cfs] default settings, [cfsrr1] CFS RoundRobin(1)\r
- policy applied to all data plane threads handling test packet\r
- path including all VPP worker threads and all Qemu testpmd\r
- poll-mode threads;\r
-\r
- - Resulting test cases are all combinations with [vr256,vr1024] and\r
- [cfs,cfsrr1] settings;\r
+#. Added VPP performance tests\r
\r
- - For more detail see performance results observations section in\r
- this report;\r
+ - **Container Service Chain Topologies Orchestrated by K8s with VPP Memif**\r
\r
-#. Code updates and optimizations in CSIT performance framework:\r
+ - Added tests with VPP vswitch in container connecting a number of VPP-\r
+ in-container service chain topologies with L2 Cross-Connect and L2\r
+ Bridge-Domain configurations, orchestrated by Kubernetes. Added\r
+ following forwarding topologies: i) "Parallel" with packets flowing from\r
+ NIC via VPP to container and back to VPP and NIC; ii) "Chained" (a.k.a.\r
+ "Snake") with packets flowing via VPP to container, back to VPP, to next\r
+ container, back to VPP and so on until the last container in a chain,\r
+ then back to VPP and NIC; iii) "Horizontal" with packets flowing via VPP\r
+ to container, then via "horizontal" memif to next container, and so on\r
+ until the last container, then back to VPP and NIC;\r
\r
- - Complete CSIT framework code revision and optimizations as descried\r
- on CSIT wiki page\r
- `Design_Optimizations <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/Design_Optimizations>`_.\r
+ - **VPP TCP/IP stack**\r
\r
- - For more detail see the :ref:`CSIT Framework Design <csit-design>` section\r
- in this report;\r
+ - Added tests for VPP TCP/IP stack using VPP built-in HTTP server.\r
+ WRK traffic generator is used as a client-side;\r
\r
-#. Changes to CSIT driver for TRex Traffic Generator:\r
+ - **SRv6**\r
\r
- - Complete refactor of TRex CSIT driver;\r
+ - Initial SRv6 (Segment Routing IPv6) tests verifying performance of\r
+ IPv6 and SRH (Segment Routing Header) encapsulation, decapsulation,\r
+ lookups and rewrites based on configured End and End.DX6 SRv6 egress\r
+ functions;\r
\r
- - Introduction of packet traffic profiles to improve usability and\r
- manageability of traffic profiles for a growing number of test\r
- scenarios.\r
+ - **IPSecSW**\r
\r
- - Support for packet traffic profiles to test IPv4/IPv6 stateful and\r
- stateless DUT data plane features;\r
+ - SW computed IPSec encryption with AES-GCM, CBC-SHA1 ciphers, in\r
+ combination with IPv4 routed-forwarding;\r
\r
-#. Added VPP performance tests\r
+#. Presentation and Analytics Layer\r
\r
- - **Linux Container VPP memif virtual interface tests**\r
+ - Added throughput speedup analysis for multi-core and multi-thread\r
+ VPP tests into Presentation and Analytics Layer (PAL) for automated\r
+ CSIT test results analysis;\r
\r
- - VPP Memif virtual interface (shared memory interface) tests\r
- interconnecting VPP instances over memif. VPP vswitch\r
- instance runs in bare-metal user-mode handling Intel x520 NIC\r
- 10GbE interfaces and connecting over memif (Master side) virtual\r
- interfaces to another instance of VPP running in bare-metal Linux\r
- Container (LXC) with memif virtual interfaces (Slave side). LXC\r
- runs in a priviliged mode with VPP data plane worker threads\r
- pinned to dedicated physical CPU cores per usual CSIT practice.\r
- Both VPP run the same version of software. This test topology is\r
- equivalent to existing tests with vhost-user and VMs.\r
+#. Other changes\r
\r
- - **Stateful Security Groups**\r
+ - **Framework optimizations**\r
\r
- - New tests of VPP stateful security-groups a.k.a. acl-plugin\r
- functionally compatible with networking-vpp OpenStack;\r
+ - Ability to run CSIT framework on ARM architecture;\r
\r
- - New tested security-groups access-control-lists (acl)\r
- configuration variants include: [iaclNsl] input acl stateless,\r
- [oaclNsl] output acl stateless, [iaclNsf] input acl stateful\r
- a.k.a. reflect, [oaclNsf] output acl stateful a.k.a. reflect,\r
- where N is number of access-control-entries (ace) in the acl.\r
+ - Overall stability improvements;\r
\r
- - Testing packet flows transmitted by TG: 100, 10k, 100k, always\r
- hitting the last permit entry in acl.\r
+ - **NDR and PDR throughput binary search change**\r
\r
- - **VPP vhost and VM tests**\r
+ - Increased binary search resolution by reducing final step from\r
+ 100kpps to 50kpps;\r
\r
- - New VPP vhost-user and VM test cases to benchmark performance of\r
- VPP and VM topologies with Qemu and CFS policy combinations of\r
- [vr256,vr1024] x [cfs,cfsrr1];\r
+ - **VPP plugin loaded as needed by tests**\r
\r
- - Statistical analysis of repeatibility of results;\r
+ - From this release only plugins required by tests are loaded at\r
+ VPP initialization time. Previously all plugins were loaded for\r
+ all tests;\r
\r
-Performance Improvements\r
-------------------------\r
+Performance Changes\r
+-------------------\r
\r
-Substantial improvements in measured packet throughput have been\r
-observed in a number of CSIT |release| tests listed below, with relative\r
-increase of double-digit percentage points. Relative improvements for\r
-this release are calculated against the test results listed in CSIT\r
-|release-1| report. The comparison is calculated between the mean values\r
-based on collected and archived test results' samples for involved VPP\r
-releases. Standard deviation has been also listed for CSIT |release|.\r
-VPP-16.09 and VPP-17.01 numbers are provided for reference.\r
+Relative performance changes in measured packet throughput in CSIT\r
+|release| are calculated against the results from CSIT |release-1|\r
+report. Listed mean and standard deviation values are computed based on\r
+a series of the same tests executed against respective VPP releases to\r
+verify test results repeatibility, with percentage change calculated for\r
+mean values. Note that the standard deviation is quite high for a small\r
+number of packet throughput tests, what indicates poor test results\r
+repeatability and makes the relative change of mean throughput value not\r
+fully representative for these tests. The root causes behind poor\r
+results repeatibility vary between the test cases.\r
\r
-NDR Throughput\r
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
+NDR Throughput Changes\r
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
\r
-Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests:\r
+NDR small packet throughput changes between releases are available in a CSV and\r
+pretty ASCII formats:\r
\r
-.. csv-table::\r
- :align: center\r
- :header: VPP Functionality,Test Name,VPP-16.09 [Mpps],VPP-17.01 [Mpps],VPP-17.04 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 stdev [Mpps],17.04 to 17.07 change\r
- :file: ../../../docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/ndr_throughput.csv\r
+ - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-ndr-1t1c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-ndr-2t2c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-ndr-1t1c-full.txt>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-ndr-2t2c-full.txt>`_.\r
\r
-PDR Throughput\r
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
+PDR Throughput Changes\r
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
\r
-Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%:\r
+NDR small packet throughput changes between releases are available in a CSV and\r
+pretty ASCII formats:\r
\r
-.. csv-table::\r
- :align: center\r
- :header: VPP Functionality,Test Name,VPP-16.09 [Mpps],VPP-17.01 [Mpps],VPP-17.04 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 stdev [Mpps],17.04 to 17.07 change\r
- :file: ../../../docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/pdr_throughput.csv\r
+ - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-pdr-1t1c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-pdr-2t2c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-pdr-1t1c-full.txt>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-pdr-2t2c-full.txt>`_.\r
\r
Measured improvements are in line with VPP code optimizations listed in\r
-`VPP-17.07 release notes\r
-<https://docs.fd.io/vpp/17.07/release_notes_1707.html>`_.\r
-\r
-Other Performance Changes\r
--------------------------\r
-\r
-Other changes in measured packet throughput, with either minor relative\r
-increase or decrease, have been observed in a number of CSIT |release|\r
-tests listed below. Relative changes are calculated against the test\r
-results listed in CSIT |release-1| report.\r
-\r
-NDR Throughput\r
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
+`VPP-18.01 release notes\r
+<https://docs.fd.io/vpp/18.01/release_notes_1801.html>`_.\r
\r
-Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests:\r
+MRR Throughput Changes\r
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
\r
-.. csv-table::\r
- :align: center\r
- :header: VPP Functionality,Test Name,VPP-16.09 [Mpps],VPP-17.01 [Mpps],VPP-17.04 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 stdev [Mpps],17.04 to 17.07 change\r
- :file: ../../../docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/ndr_throughput_others.csv\r
-\r
-PDR Throughput\r
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r
-\r
-Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%:\r
-\r
-.. csv-table::\r
- :align: center\r
- :header: VPP Functionality,Test Name,VPP-16.09 [Mpps],VPP-17.01 [Mpps],VPP-17.04 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 mean [Mpps],VPP-17.07 stdev [Mpps],17.04 to 17.07 change\r
- :file: ../../../docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/performance_improvements/pdr_throughput_others.csv\r
+MRR changes between releases are available in a CSV and\r
+pretty ASCII formats:\r
\r
+ - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-mrr-1t1c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-mrr-2t2c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `csv format for 4t4c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-mrr-4t4c-full.csv>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-mrr-1t1c-full.txt>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-mrr-2t2c-full.txt>`_,\r
+ - `pretty ASCII format for 4t4c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-mrr-4t4c-full.txt>`_.\r
\r
Known Issues\r
------------\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
| # | Issue | Jira ID | Description |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 1 | Security-groups acl-plugin scale tests failure | CSIT-731 | VPP with 2 worker threads crashes during security-groups |\r
-| | with stateful acls if VPP with 2 worker threads | VPP-912 | iaclNsf and oaclNsf tests with 100k flows. |\r
+| 1 | Vic1385 and Vic1227 low performance. | VPP-664 | Low NDR performance. |\r
+| | | | |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 2 | VPP fails memif tests in 4 worker 2 core setup | CSIT-732 | VPP with 4 worker threads running on 2 physical cores crashes |\r
-| | | VPP-920 | during memif tests. Initial debugging points to DPDK code |\r
+| 2 | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures | CSIT-570 | DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue. Suspected issue |\r
+| | on x520. | | with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed |\r
+| | | | outside of LF testbeds. |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 3 | NDR discovery test failures 1518B frame size | VPP-663 | VPP reporting errors: dpdk-input Rx ip checksum errors. |\r
-| | for ip4scale200k, ip4scale2m scale IPv4 routed- | | Observed frequency: all test runs. |\r
-| | forwarding tests. ip4scale20k tests are fine. | | |\r
+| 3 | Lower than expected NDR throughput with | CSIT-571 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR and |\r
+| | xl710 and x710 NICs, compared to x520 NICs. | | PDR throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs. |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 4 | Vic1385 and Vic1227 low performance. | VPP-664 | Low NDR performance. |\r
-| | | | |\r
+| 4 | QAT IPSec scale with 1000 tunnels (interfaces) | VPP-1121 | VPP crashes during configuration of 1000 IPsec tunnels. |\r
+| | in 2t2c config, all tests are failing. | | 1t1c tests are not affected |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 5 | Sporadic NDR discovery test failures on x520. | CSIT-750 | Suspected issue with HW settings (BIOS, FW) in LF |\r
-| | | | infrastructure. Issue can't be replicated outside LF. |\r
+| 5 | rls1801 plugin related performance regression | CSIT-925 | With all plugins loaded NDR, PDR and MaxRates vary |\r
+| | | | intermittently from 3% to 5% across multiple test executions. |\r
+| | | | Requires plugin code bisecting. |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 6 | VPP in 2t2c setups - large variation | CSIT-568 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR |\r
-| | of discovered NDR throughput values across | | throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs, x520 NICs are fine. |\r
-| | multiple test runs with xl710 and x710 NICs. | | |\r
+| 6 | rls1801 generic small performance regression | CSIT-926 | Generic performance regression of discovered NDR, PDR and |\r
+| | ip4base, l2xcbase, l2bdbase | | MaxRates of -3%..-1% vs. rls1710, affects ip4base, l2xcbase, |\r
+| | | | l2bdbase test suites. Not detected by CSIT performance trending |\r
+| | | | scheme as it was masked out by another issue CSIT-925. |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
-| 7 | Lower than expected NDR and PDR throughput with | CSIT-569 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR and |\r
-| | xl710 and x710 NICs, compared to x520 NICs. | | PDR throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs. |\r
+| 7 | rls1801 substantial NDR performance regression | CSIT-927 | Much lower NDR for vhostvr1024 tests, with mean values |\r
+| | for vhost-user vring size of 1024 | | regression of -17%..-42% vs. rls1710, but also very high |\r
+| | | | standard deviation of up to 1.46 Mpps => poor repeatibility. |\r
+| | | | Making mean values not fully representative. |\r
++---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
+| 8 | rls1801 substantial NDR/PDR regression for | CSIT-928 | NDR regression of -7%..-15%, PDR regression of -3%..-15% |\r
+| | IPSec tunnel scale with HW QAT crypto-dev | | compared to rls1710. |\r
+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+\r
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