+.. _vpp_performance_tests_release_notes:
+
Release Notes
=============
#. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS
- - CSIT test environment is versioned, see
- :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
-
- - 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`.
+ - **AF_XDP**: Added af_xdp driver support for all test cases. Test
+ results will be added in sub-sequent CSIT-2106 report.
+
+ - **GTPU tunnel**: Added GTPU HW Offload IPv4 routing tests.
+
+ - **Intel Xeon Ice Lake**: Added initial test data for these
+ platforms. Current CSIT-2106 report data for Intel Xeon Ice Lake
+ comes from an external source (Intel labs running CSIT code on
+ "8360Y D Stepping" and "6338N" processors). For details about the
+ physical setup see :ref:`tested_physical_topologies`. Tested
+ VPP and CSIT versions are pre-release, VPP
+ 21.06-rc0~779-gd640ae52f.
+
+ - **MLRsearch improvements**: Added support for multiple packet
+ throughput rates in a single search, each rate is associated
+ with a distinct Packet Loss Ratio (PLR) criterion. Previously
+ only Non Drop Rate (NDR) (PLR=0) and single Partial Drop Rate
+ (PDR) (PLR<0.5%) were supported. Implemented number of
+ optimizations improving rate discovery efficiency.
+
+ - **Reduction of tests**: Removed obsolete VPP use cases and
+ superfluous test combinations from continuous and report test
+ executions, including:
+
+ - All vts tests, obsolete use cases.
+ - dot1q tests apart from dot1q-l2bd, superfluous combinations.
+ - -100flows, -100kflows in all acl tests.
+ - nat44 tests
+
+ - -pps tests, replaced by -tput tests.
+ - h1-p1-s1 single session tests, unessential combination.
+ - h4096-p63-s258048 tests, unessential scale combination.
+
+ - ipsec tests
+
+ - ethip4ipsectptlispgpe.
+ - policy-aes128gcm.
+ - policy-aes128cbc-hmac256sha.
+ - policy-aes128cbc-hmac512sha.
+ - int-aes128cbc-hmac256sha.
+ - scale of
+
+ - 400tnlsw.
+ - 5000tnlsw.
+ - 20000tnlsw.
+ - 60000tnlsw.
#. TEST FRAMEWORK
+ - **Telemetry retouch**: Refactored telemetry retrieval from DUTs and
+ SUTs. Included VPP perfmon plugin telemetry with all perfmon
+ bundles available in VPP release.
+
+ - **Upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS**: Re-installed base operating system
+ to Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. Upgrade included also baseline Docker
+ containers used for spawning topology.
+
+ - **TRex upgrade v2.86 to v2.88**: Included move to DPDK 21.02 and
+ changed the way egress low latency queues are used in FVL NICs.
+ This broke latency measurements for majority of FVL NICs in
+ CSIT. Latency values look better after upgrading FVL FW on TRex
+ servers, but still somewhat higher than before the TRex upgrade.
+ Tracked by `CSIT-1790 <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1790>`_.
+
+ - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 7, see
+ :ref:`test_environment_versioning`.
+
+ - **CSIT in AWS environment**: Added CSIT support for AWS c5n
+ instances environment. Test results will be added in sub-sequent
+ CSIT-2106 report.
+
- **CSIT PAPI support**: Due to issues with PAPI performance, VAT is
- still used in CSIT for all VPP scale tests. See known issues below.
+ 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 and aligning of suite/test
- setup/teardowns.
+ - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug
+ fixes.
#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER
- - **Graphs improvements**: Added possibility to use Gbps on Y-axis in
- Packet Throughput and Speedup Multi-Core graphs, added unidirectional
- mode to the Latency graphs.
+ - **Graphs improvements**: Updated Packet Latency graphs,
+ see :ref:`latency_methodology`.
.. raw:: latex
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| # | 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. |
+| 1 | `CSIT-1782 | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1782>`_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 2 | `VPP-662 | 9000B packets not supported by NICs VIC1227 and VIC1387. |
-| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-662>`_ | |
+| 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 | `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). |
+| 3 | `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. |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 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>`_ | |
+| 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). |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| 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>`_ | |
+| 5 | `CSIT-1790 | Broken TRex latency measurements with TRex v2.88, DPDK 21.02 and FVL FW 6.01. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1790>`_ | High latency O(5msec) for all VPP and testpmd/l3fwd test cases for FVL NICs with FW 6.01. |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Root Cause Analysis for 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>`_ | |
+| 1 | `VPP-1972 | One VPP change has decreased performance of NAT44ed processing, both slow path and fast path. |
+| | <https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1972>`_ | |
+----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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