X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=csit.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Freport%2Fvpp_performance_tests%2Fcsit_release_notes.rst;h=25a2c3378b8f2add2a0179b28f1d635a27cb3643;hp=f4e5f25d4cefb452b9e6bc230049a18dd25ea7aa;hb=e6b2505e14723eaca82204f1f6ef25af4f3e77e7;hpb=b3734284f7cdf49cb04b142c00087c10369a48e7 diff --git a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst index f4e5f25d4c..25a2c3378b 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -8,18 +8,11 @@ Changes in |csit-release| #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS - - **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. + - **Intel Xeon Ice Lake**: Added test data for these platforms. Current + CSIT-2110 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`. - **MLRsearch improvements**: Added support for multiple packet throughput rates in a single search, each rate is associated @@ -57,34 +50,18 @@ Changes in |csit-release| #. 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 `_. - - - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 7, see + - **CSIT test environment** version has been updated to ver. 8, 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. + instances environment. - **CSIT PAPI support**: Due to issues with PAPI performance, VAT is still used in CSIT for all VPP scale tests. See known issues below. - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing code optimizations and bug - fixes. + fixes. #. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER @@ -105,7 +82,7 @@ List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests: +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | # | JiraID | Issue Description | +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+ -| 1 | `CSIT-1782 | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface. | +| 1 | `CSIT-1782 | Multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface. The issue persists after FVL FW upgrade. | | | `_ | | +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 2 | `CSIT-1763 | Adapt ramp-up phase of nat44 tests for different frame sizes. | @@ -120,8 +97,17 @@ List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests: | 4 | `CSIT-1789 | AVF driver does not perform RSS in a deterministic way. | | | `_ | This increases standard deviation of tests with small number of flows (mainly ipsec). | +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 5 | `CSIT-1790 | Broken TRex latency measurements with TRex v2.88, DPDK 21.02 and FVL FW 6.01. | -| | `_ | High latency O(5msec) for all VPP and testpmd/l3fwd test cases for FVL NICs with FW 6.01. | +| 5 | `CSIT-1780 | IPSEC SW async scheduler MRR tests failing with no traffic forwarded. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 6 | `CSIT-1786 | IP4 and IP6 scale tests failing with no traffic forwarded. | +| | `_ | Issue reported to VPP devs. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 7 | `CSIT-1785 | NAT44ED tests failing to establish all TCP sessions. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 8 | `CSIT-1791 | Performance regression in RDMA tests, due to CSIT environment changes. | +| | `_ | | +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes @@ -132,6 +118,6 @@ List of RCAs in |csit-release| for VPP performance changes: +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | # | JiraID | Issue Description | +====+=========================================+===========================================================================================================+ -| 1 | `VPP-1972 | One VPP change has decreased performance of NAT44ed processing, both slow path and fast path. | +| 1 | `VPP-1972 | One VPP change has decreased performance of NAT44ed processing, mostly slow path. | | | `_ | | +----+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+