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-Performance Impact of Meltdown and Spectre Patches
-==================================================
-
-The following tables present performance impact on VPP after applying
-patches addressing Meltdown (Variant3: Rogue Data Cache Load) and
-Spectre (Variant1: Bounds Check Bypass; Variant2: Branch Target
-Injection) security vulnerabilities. Incremental kernel patches for
-Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as documented on
-`Ubuntu SpectreAndMeltdown page <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown>`_.
-For Spectre additional Processor microcode and BIOS firmware changes are
-applied. For detailed listing of used software versions and patches
-please refer to :ref:`test_environment`.
-
-NDR and PDR packet throughput results are compared for 1-core/1-thread,
-2-cores/2-threads and 4-cores/4-threads VPP configurations, with
-reference performance numbers coming from tests without the Meltdown and
-Spectre patches.
-
-NDR throughput: Best 20 changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-.. only:: html
-
-   .. csv-table::
-      :align: center
-      :file: ../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-ndr-1t1c-top.csv
-
-.. only:: latex
-
-   .. raw:: latex
-
-      \makeatletter
-      \csvset{
-        perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead},
-      }
-      \makeatother
-
-      {\tiny
-      \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma,
-        respect all,
-        no check column count,
-        perfimprovements column width=1cm,
-        late after line={\\\hline},
-        late after last line={\end{longtable}}
-        ]{../_build/_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-ndr-1t1c-top.csv}
-      }
-
-NDR throughput: Worst 20 changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-.. only:: html
-
-   .. csv-table::
-      :align: center
-      :file: ../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-ndr-1t1c-bottom.csv
-
-.. only:: latex
-
-   .. raw:: latex
-
-      \makeatletter
-      \csvset{
-        perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead},
-      }
-      \makeatother
-
-      {\tiny
-      \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma,
-        respect all,
-        no check column count,
-        perfimprovements column width=1cm,
-        late after line={\\\hline},
-        late after last line={\end{longtable}}
-        ]{../_build/_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-ndr-1t1c-bottom.csv}
-      }
-
-.. only:: html
-
-
-NDR throughput: All changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Complete results for all NDR tests are available in a CSV and pretty
-ASCII formats:
-
-  - `csv format for 1t1c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-ndr-1t1c-full.csv>`_,
-  - `csv format for 2t2c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-ndr-2t2c-full.csv>`_,
-  - `csv format for 4t4c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-ndr-4t4c-full.csv>`_,
-  - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-ndr-1t1c-full.txt>`_,
-  - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-ndr-2t2c-full.txt>`_,
-  - `pretty ASCII format for 4t4c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-ndr-4t4c-full.txt>`_.
-
-PDR throughput: Best 20 changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-.. only:: html
-
-   .. csv-table::
-      :align: center
-      :file: ../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-pdr-1t1c-top.csv
-
-.. only:: latex
-
-   .. raw:: latex
-
-      \makeatletter
-      \csvset{
-        perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead},
-      }
-      \makeatother
-
-      {\tiny
-      \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma,
-        respect all,
-        no check column count,
-        perfimprovements column width=1cm,
-        late after line={\\\hline},
-        late after last line={\end{longtable}}
-        ]{../_build/_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-pdr-1t1c-top.csv}
-      }
-
-PDR throughput: Worst 20 changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-.. only:: html
-
-   .. csv-table::
-      :align: center
-      :file: ../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-pdr-1t1c-bottom.csv
-
-.. only:: latex
-
-   .. raw:: latex
-
-      \makeatletter
-      \csvset{
-        perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead},
-      }
-      \makeatother
-
-      {\tiny
-      \csvautobooklongtable[separator=comma,
-        respect all,
-        no check column count,
-        perfimprovements column width=1cm,
-        late after line={\\\hline},
-        late after last line={\end{longtable}}
-        ]{../_build/_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-pdr-1t1c-bottom.csv}
-      }
-
-.. only:: html
-
-PDR throughput: All changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Complete results for all PDR tests are available in a CSV and pretty
-ASCII formats:
-
-  - `csv format for 1t1c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-pdr-1t1c-full.csv>`_,
-  - `csv format for 2t2c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-pdr-2t2c-full.csv>`_,
-  - `csv format for 4t4c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-pdr-4t4c-full.csv>`_,
-  - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-pdr-1t1c-full.txt>`_,
-  - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-pdr-2t2c-full.txt>`_,
-  - `pretty ASCII format for 4t4c <../../_static/vpp/meltdown-spectre-impact-pdr-4t4c-full.txt>`_.