-CSIT TAGs
+CSIT Tags
=========
All CSIT test cases are labelled with Robot Framework tags used to allow for
easy test case type identification, test case grouping and selection for
-execution. Following sections list currently used CSIT TAGs and their
-documentation.
+execution. Following sections list currently used CSIT tags and their
+descriptions.
-Topology TAGs
--------------
+Testbed Topology Tags
+---------------------
.. topic:: 2_NODE_DOUBLE_LINK_TOPO
3 nodes connected in a circular topology with at least one link
interconnecting devices.
-Objective TAGs
+Objective Tags
--------------
.. topic:: SKIP_PATCH
Test case(s) marked to not run in case of vpp-csit-verify (i.e. VPP patch).
-Environment TAGs
+Environment Tags
----------------
.. topic:: HW_ENV
DUTs with VPP and capable of running Virtual Machine.
-NIC model tags
+NIC Model Tags
--------------
.. topic:: NIC_Intel-X520-DA2
VIC-1385 by Cisco.
-Scaling TAGs
+.. topic:: NIC_Amazon-Nitro-50G
+
+ Amazon EC2 ENA NIC.
+
+Scaling Tags
------------
.. topic:: FIB_20K
Test with 1000 VXLAN tunnels.
-.. topic:: TNL_1000
+.. topic:: TNL_{t}
+
+ IPSec in tunnel mode - {t} tunnels.
+
+.. topic:: SRC_USER_1
- IPSec in tunnel mode - 1000 tunnels.
+ Traffic flow with 1 unique IP (users) in one direction.
.. topic:: SRC_USER_10
Traffic stream with 100 000 unique flows (100 IPs/users x 1000 UDP ports) in
one direction.
-Tags marking functional vs. performance of tests
-------------------------------------------------
+.. topic:: HOSTS_1024
+
+ Stateless or stateful traffic stream with 1024 client source IP4 addresses,
+ usually with 63 flow differing in source port number. Could be UDP or TCP.
+ If NAT is used, the clients are inside. Outside IP range can differ.
+
+.. topic:: HOSTS_4096
+
+ Stateless or stateful traffic stream with 4096 client source IP4 addresses,
+ usually with 63 flow differing in source port number. Could be UDP or TCP.
+ If NAT is used, the clients are inside. Outside IP range can differ.
+
+.. topic:: HOSTS_16384
+
+ Stateless or stateful traffic stream with 16384 client source IP4 addresses,
+ usually with 63 flow differing in source port number. Could be UDP or TCP.
+ If NAT is used, the clients are inside. Outside IP range can differ.
+
+.. topic:: HOSTS_65536
+
+ Stateless or stateful traffic stream with 65536 client source IP4 addresses,
+ usually with 63 flow differing in source port number. Could be UDP or TCP.
+ If NAT is used, the clients are inside. Outside IP range can differ.
+
+.. topic:: HOSTS_262144
+
+ Stateless or stateful traffic stream with 262144 client source IP4 addresses
+ usually with 63 flow differing in source port number. Could be UDP or TCP.
+ If NAT is used, the clients are inside. Outside IP range can differ.
+
+.. topic:: GENEVE4_1TUN
+
+ Test with 1 GENEVE IPv4 tunnel.
+
+.. topic:: GENEVE4_4TUN
+
+ Test with 4 GENEVE IPv4 tunnels.
+
+.. topic:: GENEVE4_16TUN
+
+ Test with 16 GENEVE IPv4 tunnels.
+
+.. topic:: GENEVE4_64TUN
+
+ Test with 64 GENEVE IPv4 tunnels.
+
+.. topic:: GENEVE4_256TUN
+
+ Test with 256 GENEVE IPv4 tunnels.
+
+.. topic:: GENEVE4_1024TUN
+
+ Test with 1024 GENEVE IPv4 tunnels.
+
+Test Category Tags
+------------------
.. topic:: FUNCTEST
All performance test cases.
-Performance testing tags
-------------------------
+Performance Type Tags
+---------------------
.. topic:: NDRPDR
Single test finding both No Drop Rate and Partial Drop Rate simultaneously.
The search is done by optimized algorithm which performs
multiple trial runs at different durations and transmit rates.
+ The results come from the final trials, which have duration of 30 seconds.
.. topic:: MRR
Performance tests where TG sends the traffic at maximum rate (line rate)
- and reports total sent/received packets over performance trial duration.
+ and reports total sent/received packets over trial duration.
+ The result is an average of 10 trials of 1 second duration.
+
+.. topic:: SOAK
+
+ Performance tests using PLRsearch to find the critical load.
-Ethernet frame size tags for performance tests
-----------------------------------------------
+.. topic:: RECONF
+
+ Performance tests aimed to measure lost packets (time) when performing
+ reconfiguration while full throughput offered load is applied.
+
+Ethernet Frame Size Tags
+------------------------
+
+These are describing the traffic offered by Traffic Generator,
+"primary" traffic in case of asymmetric load.
+For traffic between DUTs, or for "secondary" traffic, see ${overhead} value.
.. topic:: 64B
- 64B frames used for test.
+ 64B frames used for test. Generic ethernet or IPv4.
.. topic:: 78B
- 78B frames used for test.
+ 78B frames used for test. Ipv6.
.. topic:: 114B
- 114B frames used for test.
+ 114B frames used for test. IPv4+vxlan.
+
+.. topic:: 118B
+
+ 118B frames used for test. Dot1q+IPv4+vxlan.
.. topic:: IMIX
9000B frames used for test.
-Test type tags
+Test Type Tags
--------------
.. topic:: BASE
Baseline test cases, no encapsulation, no feature(s) configured in tests.
+ No scaling whatsoever, beyond minimum needed for RSS.
.. topic:: IP4BASE
IPv4 baseline test cases, no encapsulation, no feature(s) configured in
- tests.
+ tests. Minimal number of routes. Other quantities may be scaled.
.. topic:: IP6BASE
.. topic:: SCALE
- Scale test cases.
+ Scale test cases. Other tags specify which quantities are scaled.
+ Also applies if scaling is set on TG only (e.g. DUT works as IP4BASE).
.. topic:: ENCAP
At least one feature is configured in test cases. Use also feature tag(s).
-.. topic:: TLDK
+.. topic:: UDP
- Functional test cases for TLDK.
+ Tests which use any kind of UDP traffic (STL or ASTF profile).
-.. topic:: DMM
+.. topic:: TCP
- Functional test cases for DMM.
+ Tests which use any kind of TCP traffic (STL or ASTF profile).
-.. topic:: TCP
+..
+ TODO: Should we define tags STL and ASTF?
+
+.. topic:: UDP_UDIR
+
+ Tests which use unidirectional UDP traffic (STL profile only).
- Tests which use TCP.
+.. topic:: UDP_BIDIR
+
+ Tests which use bidirectional UDP traffic (STL profile only).
+
+.. topic:: UDP_CPS
+
+ Tests which measure connections per second on minimal UDP pseudoconnections.
+ This implies ASTF traffic profile is used.
+ This tag selects specific output processing in PAL.
.. topic:: TCP_CPS
- Performance tests which measure connections per second using http requests.
+ Tests which measure connections per second on empty TCP connections.
+ This implies ASTF traffic profile is used.
+ This tag selects specific output processing in PAL.
.. topic:: TCP_RPS
- Performance tests which measure requests per second using http requests.
+ Tests which measure requests per second on empty TCP connections.
+ This implies ASTF traffic profile is used.
+ This tag selects specific output processing in PAL.
+
+.. topic:: UDP_PPS
+
+ Tests which measure packets per second on lightweight UDP transactions.
+ This implies ASTF traffic profile is used.
+ This tag selects specific output processing in PAL.
+
+.. topic:: TCP_PPS
+
+ Tests which measure packets per second on lightweight TCP transactions.
+ This implies ASTF traffic profile is used.
+ This tag selects specific output processing in PAL.
.. topic:: HTTP
- Tests which use HTTP.
+ Tests which use traffic formed of valid HTTP requests (and responses).
+
+..
+ TODO: Add HTTP tag to the current hoststack tests.
+ TODO: Document other tags already used by hoststack tests.
+
+.. topic:: LDP_NGINX
+
+ LDP NGINX is un-modified NGINX with VPP via LD_PRELOAD.
+
+.. topic:: NF_DENSITY
+
+ Performance tests that measure throughput of multiple VNF and CNF
+ service topologies at different service densities.
+
+NF Service Density Tags
+-----------------------
+
+.. topic:: CHAIN
-Forwarding mode tags
+ NF service density tests with VNF or CNF service chain topology(ies).
+
+.. topic:: PIPE
+
+ NF service density tests with CNF service pipeline topology(ies).
+
+.. topic:: NF_L3FWDIP4
+
+ NF service density tests with DPDK l3fwd IPv4 routing as NF workload.
+
+.. topic:: NF_VPPIP4
+
+ NF service density tests with VPP IPv4 routing as NF workload.
+
+.. topic:: {r}R{c}C
+
+ Service density matrix locator {r}R{c}C, {r}Row denoting number of
+ service instances, {c}Column denoting number of NFs per service
+ instance. {r}=(1,2,4,6,8,10), {c}=(1,2,4,6,8,10).
+
+.. topic:: {n}VM{t}T
+
+ Service density {n}VM{t}T, {n}Number of NF Qemu VMs, {t}Number of threads
+ per NF.
+
+.. topic:: {n}DCRt}T
+
+ Service density {n}DCR{t}T, {n}Number of NF Docker containers, {t}Number of
+ threads per NF.
+
+.. topic:: {n}_ADDED_CHAINS
+
+ {n}Number of chains (or pipelines) added (and/or removed)
+ during RECONF test.
+
+Forwarding Mode Tags
--------------------
.. topic:: L2BDMACSTAT
VPP IPv6 routed forwarding.
-Underlay tags
+.. topic:: LOADBALANCER_MAGLEV
+
+ VPP Load balancer maglev mode.
+
+.. topic:: LOADBALANCER_L3DSR
+
+ VPP Load balancer l3dsr mode.
+
+.. topic:: LOADBALANCER_NAT4
+
+ VPP Load balancer nat4 mode.
+
+Underlay Tags
-------------
.. topic:: IP4UNRLAY
MPLS underlay.
-Overlay tags
+Overlay Tags
------------
.. topic:: L2OVRLAY
IPv6 overlay (IPv6 payload).
-Tagging tags
+Tagging Tags
------------
.. topic:: DOT1Q
All test cases with dot1ad.
-Encapsulation tags
+Encapsulation Tags
------------------
.. topic:: ETH
All test cases with LISP-GPE.
+.. topic:: LISP_IP4o4
+
+ All test cases with LISP_IP4o4.
+
+.. topic:: LISPGPE_IP4o4
+
+ All test cases with LISPGPE_IP4o4.
+
+.. topic:: LISPGPE_IP6o4
+
+ All test cases with LISPGPE_IP6o4.
+
+.. topic:: LISPGPE_IP4o6
+
+ All test cases with LISPGPE_IP4o6.
+
+.. topic:: LISPGPE_IP6o6
+
+ All test cases with LISPGPE_IP6o6.
+
.. topic:: VXLAN
All test cases with Vxlan.
All test cases with Segment routing over IPv6 dataplane.
-Interface tags
+.. topic:: SRv6_1SID
+
+ All SRv6 test cases with single SID.
+
+.. topic:: SRv6_2SID_DECAP
+
+ All SRv6 test cases with two SIDs and with decapsulation.
+
+.. topic:: SRv6_2SID_NODECAP
+
+ All SRv6 test cases with two SIDs and without decapsulation.
+
+.. topic:: GENEVE
+
+ All test cases with GENEVE.
+
+.. topic:: GENEVE_L3MODE
+
+ All test cases with GENEVE tunnel in L3 mode.
+
+Interface Tags
--------------
.. topic:: PHY
All test cases which use physical interface(s).
+.. topic:: GSO
+
+ All test cases which uses Generic Segmentation Offload.
+
.. topic:: VHOST
All test cases which uses VHOST.
-.. topic:: VHOST_256
+.. topic:: VHOST_1024
+
+ All test cases which uses VHOST DPDK driver with qemu queue size set
+ to 1024.
- All test cases which uses VHOST with qemu queue size set to 256.
+.. topic:: VIRTIO
-.. topic:: VHOST_1024
+ All test cases which uses VIRTIO native VPP driver.
- All test cases which uses VHOST with qemu queue size set to 1024.
+.. topic:: VIRTIO_1024
+
+ All test cases which uses VIRTIO native VPP driver with qemu queue size set
+ to 1024.
.. topic:: CFS_OPT
devices. In essence, today this driver can be used only with Intel
XL710 / X710 / XXV710 adapters.
-Feature tags
+.. topic:: DRV_VFIO_PCI
+
+ All test cases which uses vfio-pci device driver. It supports variety of NIC
+ adapters.
+
+.. topic:: DRV_RDMA_CORE
+
+ All test cases which uses rdma-core device driver. It supports Mellanox
+ NIC adapters.
+
+.. topic:: RXQ_SIZE_{n}
+
+ All test cases which RXQ size (RX descriptors) are set to {n}. Default is 0,
+ which means VPP (API) default.
+
+.. topic:: TXQ_SIZE_{n}
+
+ All test cases which TXQ size (TX descriptors) are set to {n}. Default is 0,
+ which means VPP (API) default.
+
+Feature Tags
------------
.. topic:: IACLDST
iACL destination.
-.. topic:: COPWHLIST
+.. topic:: ADLALWLIST
- COP whitelist.
+ ADL allowlist.
.. topic:: NAT44
SRv6 endpoint to SR-unaware appliance via masquerading proxy.
-Encryption tags
+Encryption Tags
---------------
.. topic:: IPSECSW
IPSec in tunnel mode.
-Client-workload tags
+.. topic:: IPSECINT
+
+ IPSec in interface mode.
+
+.. topic:: AES
+
+ IPSec using AES algorithms.
+
+.. topic:: AES_128_CBC
+
+ IPSec using AES 128 CBC algorithms.
+
+.. topic:: AES_128_GCM
+
+ IPSec using AES 128 GCM algorithms.
+
+.. topic:: AES_256_GCM
+
+ IPSec using AES 256 GCM algorithms.
+
+.. topic:: HMAC
+
+ IPSec using HMAC integrity algorithms.
+
+.. topic:: HMAC_SHA_256
+
+ IPSec using HMAC SHA 256 integrity algorithms.
+
+.. topic:: HMAC_SHA_512
+
+ IPSec using HMAC SHA 512 integrity algorithms.
+
+.. topic:: SCHEDULER
+
+ IPSec using crypto sw scheduler engine.
+
+Client-Workload Tags
--------------------
.. topic:: VM
All test cases which use Linux container and LXC utils.
+.. topic:: DRC
+
+ All test cases which use at least one Docker container.
+
.. topic:: DOCKER
All test cases which use Docker as container manager.
All test cases with specific APP use.
-Container orchestration tags
+Container Orchestration Tags
----------------------------
-.. topic:: K8S
-
- All test cases which use Kubernetes for orchestration.
-
-.. topic:: SFC_CONTROLLER
-
- All test cases which use ligato/sfc_controller for driving configuration
- of vpp inside container.
-
-.. topic:: VPP_AGENT
-
- All test cases which use Golang implementation of a control/management plane
- for VPP
-
.. topic:: 1VSWITCH
VPP running in Docker container acting as VSWITCH.
4 VPP running in 4 Docker containers acting as VNF work load.
-Multi-threading tags
+Multi-Threading Tags
--------------------
.. topic:: STHREAD
8 worker threads each pinned to a separate logical core within 4 dedicated
physical cores. 4 receive queues per interface. Main thread pinned to core
1.
-
-Honeycomb tags
---------------
-
-.. topic:: HC_FUNC
-
- Honeycomb functional test cases.
-
-.. topic:: HC_NSH
-
- Honeycomb NSH test cases.
-
-.. topic:: HC_PERSIST
-
- Honeycomb persistence test cases.
-
-.. topic:: HC_REST_ONLY
-
- (Exclusion tag) Honeycomb test cases that cannot be run in Netconf mode
- using ODL client for Restfconf -> Netconf translation.
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