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-Overview\r
-========\r
-\r
-Tested Topologies HW\r
---------------------\r
-\r
-CSIT VPP performance tests are executed on physical baremetal servers hosted by LF\r
-FD.io project. Testbed physical topology is shown in the figure below.\r
-\r
-::\r
-\r
- +------------------------+ +------------------------+\r
- | | | |\r
- | +------------------+ | | +------------------+ |\r
- | | | | | | | |\r
- | | <-----------------> | |\r
- | | DUT1 | | | | DUT2 | |\r
- | +--^---------------+ | | +---------------^--+ |\r
- | | | | | |\r
- | | SUT1 | | SUT2 | |\r
- +------------------------+ +------------------^-----+\r
- | |\r
- | |\r
- | +-----------+ |\r
- | | | |\r
- +------------------> TG <------------------+\r
- | |\r
- +-----------+\r
-\r
-SUT1 and SUT2 are two System Under Test servers (Cisco UCS C240, each with two\r
-Intel XEON CPUs), TG is a Traffic Generator (TG, another Cisco UCS C240, with\r
-two Intel XEON CPUs). SUTs run VPP SW application in Linux user-mode as a\r
-Device Under Test (DUT). TG runs TRex SW application as a packet Traffic\r
-Generator. Physical connectivity between SUTs and to TG is provided using\r
-different NIC models that need to be tested for performance. Currently\r
-installed and tested NIC models include:\r
-\r
-#. 2port10GE X520-DA2 Intel.\r
-#. 2port10GE X710 Intel.\r
-#. 2port10GE VIC1227 Cisco.\r
-#. 2port40GE VIC1385 Cisco.\r
-#. 2port40GE XL710 Intel.\r
-\r
-Detailed LF FD.io test bed specification and physical topology are described\r
-in `wiki CSIT LF testbed <https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/CSIT_LF_testbed>`_.\r
-\r
-For test cases that require DUT (VPP) to communicate with VM over vhost-user\r
-interfaces, a VM is created on SUT1 and SUT2. DUT (VPP) test topology with VM\r
-is shown in the figure below including applicable packet flow thru the VM\r
-(marked in the figure with ``***``).\r
-\r
-::\r
-\r
- +------------------------+ +------------------------+\r
- | +----------+ | | +----------+ |\r
- | | VM | | | | VM | |\r
- | | ****** | | | | ****** | |\r
- | +--^----^--+ | | +--^----^--+ |\r
- | *| |* | | *| |* |\r
- | +------v----v------+ | | +------v----v------+ |\r
- | | * * |**|***********|**| * * | |\r
- | | ***** *******<----------------->******* ***** | |\r
- | | * DUT1 | | | | DUT2 * | |\r
- | +--^---------------+ | | +---------------^--+ |\r
- | *| | | |* |\r
- | *| SUT1 | | SUT2 |* |\r
- +------------------------+ +------------------^-----+\r
- *| |*\r
- *| |*\r
- *| +-----------+ |*\r
- *| | | |*\r
- *+------------------> TG <------------------+*\r
- ******************* | |********************\r
- +-----------+\r
-\r
-Note that for VM tests, packets are switched by DUT (VPP) twice, hence the\r
-throughput rates measured by TG (and listed in this report) must be multiplied\r
-by two to represent the actual DUT aggregate packet forwarding rate.\r
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-VPP Performance Tests Overview\r
-------------------------------\r
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-Performance tests are split into the two main categories:\r
-\r
-- Throughput discovery - discovery of packet forwarding rate using binary search\r
- in accordance to RFC2544.\r
-\r
- - NDR - discovery of Non Drop Rate packet throughput, at zero packet loss;\r
- followed by packet one-way latency measurements at 10%, 50% and 100% of\r
- discovered NDR throughput.\r
- - PDR - discovery of Partial Drop Rate, with specified non-zero packet loss\r
- currently set to 0.5%; followed by packet one-way latency measurements at\r
- 100% of discovered PDR throughput.\r
-\r
-- Throughput verification - verification of packet forwarding rate against\r
- previously discovered throughput rate. These tests are currently done against\r
- 0.9 of reference NDR, with reference rates updated periodically.\r
-\r
-CSIT |release| includes following performance test suites, listed per NIC type:\r
-\r
-- 2port10GE X520-DA2 Intel\r
-\r
- - **L2XC** - L2 Cross-Connect switched-forwarding of untagged, dot1q, dot1ad\r
- VLAN tagged Ethernet frames.\r
- - **L2BD** - L2 Bridge-Domain switched-forwarding of untagged Ethernet frames\r
- with MAC learning; disabled MAC learning i.e. static MAC tests to be added.\r
- - **IPv4** - IPv4 routed-forwarding.\r
- - **IPv6** - IPv6 routed-forwarding.\r
- - **IPv4 Scale** - IPv4 routed-forwarding with 20k, 200k and 2M FIB entries.\r
- - **IPv6 Scale** - IPv6 routed-forwarding with 20k, 200k and 2M FIB entries.\r
- - **VM with vhost-user** - switching between NIC ports and VM over vhost-user\r
- interfaces in different switching modes incl. L2 Cross-Connect, L2\r
- Bridge-Domain, VXLAN with L2BD, IPv4 routed-forwarding.\r
- - **COP** - IPv4 and IPv6 routed-forwarding with COP address security.\r
- - **iACL** - IPv4 and IPv6 routed-forwarding with iACL address security.\r
- - **LISP** - LISP overlay tunneling for IPv4-over-IPV4, IPv6-over-IPv4,\r
- IPv6-over-IPv6, IPv4-over-IPv6 in IPv4 and IPv6 routed-forwarding modes.\r
- - **VXLAN** - VXLAN overlay tunnelling integration with L2XC and L2BD.\r
- - **QoS Policer** - ingress packet rate measuring, marking and limiting\r
- (IPv4).\r
-\r
-- 2port40GE XL710 Intel\r
-\r
- - **L2XC** - L2 Cross-Connect switched-forwarding of untagged Ethernet frames.\r
- - **L2BD** - L2 Bridge-Domain switched-forwarding of untagged Ethernet frames\r
- with MAC learning.\r
- - **IPv4** - IPv4 routed-forwarding.\r
- - **IPv6** - IPv6 routed-forwarding.\r
- - **VM with vhost-user** - switching between NIC ports and VM over vhost-user\r
- interfaces in different switching modes incl. L2 Bridge-Domain.\r
-\r
-- 2port10GE X710 Intel\r
-\r
- - **L2BD** - L2 Bridge-Domain switched-forwarding of untagged Ethernet frames\r
- with MAC learning.\r
- - **VM with vhost-user** - switching between NIC ports and VM over vhost-user\r
- interfaces in different switching modes incl. L2 Bridge-Domain.\r
-\r
-- 2port10GE VIC1227 Cisco\r
-\r
- - **L2BD** - L2 Bridge-Domain switched-forwarding of untagged Ethernet frames\r
- with MAC learning.\r
-\r
-- 2port40GE VIC1385 Cisco\r
-\r
- - **L2BD** - L2 Bridge-Domain switched-forwarding of untagged Ethernet frames\r
- with MAC learning.\r
-\r
-Execution of performance tests takes time, especially the throughput discovery\r
-tests. Due to limited HW testbed resources available within FD.io labs hosted\r
-by Linux Foundation, the number of tests for NICs other than X520 (a.k.a.\r
-Niantic) has been limited to few baseline tests. Over time we expect the HW\r
-testbed resources to grow, and will be adding complete set of performance\r
-tests for all models of hardware to be executed regularly and(or)\r
-continuously.\r
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