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=361cbf30521976d4601822db18bddbaf0f9be8f2;hp=831ee1b2c9cc8b9eadfbd583f1e3ab410edff37a;hb=0b55629547520ee3c23ff4f4dd45a59d7467e75e;hpb=b641b5bf12a0d1b63ac9afb7c89133297d3b63fe diff --git a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst index 831ee1b2c9..361cbf3052 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -6,53 +6,61 @@ Changes in |csit-release| #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS - - **MRR Throughput**: MRR (Maximum Receive Rate) test code has now - configurable trial duration and number of consecutive executions. - Coverage of MRR tests has been extended across more test - scenarios. MRR tests are used for continuous performance trending - and for comparison between VPP releases. - - - **MLRsearch Throughput**: MLRsearch algorithm has been introduced - for all NDR and PDR throughput tests. All tests that previously - used binary search got converted to MLRsearch. Coverage of NDR/PDR - tests has been extended across more test scenarios. - - - **L2patch Tests**: Tests measure performance of VPP L2patch, the - fastest L2 forwarding path implemented in VPP, that cross-links - RX and TX of two physical interfaces. - - - **2-Node Tests**: A new baseline set of 2-node tests covering base - ip4, ip6, l2patch, l2bd, l2xc, running on new Xeon Skylake - testbeds. + - **Service density 2n-skx tests**: Added higher NF density tests with + 802.1q (vlan) and VXLAN encapsulation from Traffic Generator. - - **Generated tests**: Simplified and unified test structure, semi- - autogenerated by generator script. Test generator is currently - able to create test combinations with various frame size and - cores combinations. All existing test cases were converted to new - format. - - - **Simultaneous Multi-Threading**: SMT-aware detection of server - processor operation mode (HyperThreading enabled/disabled) with - associated compute resource configuration including thread - affinity, number of Rx queues and DPDK I/O mbufs. Tests are - automatically tagged during execution to indicate executed thread - configuration. - - - **Intel Xeon Skylake Support**: Support for 2-Node and 3-Node - physical testbed topologies based on the new SuperMirco servers - each with two Intel Xeon Skylake Platinum processors. Full - Ansible playbooks refactor for quick server (re)installation and - reference pointers of configuration. + - **GBP tests**: Added GBP (Group Based Policy) routing test cases + with 802.1q (vlan) external traffic. -#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER + - **AVF IPv4 scale tests**: Increased coverage of AVF IPv4 base and + scale test cases (Fortville NICs only). + + - **2n-skx tests**: Increased coverage of selected (COP, iACL, + Policer) test cases. + + - **IPsec scale tests**: Added IPsec interface mode scale tests with + 1, 40, 400, 1000, 5000, 10000, 20000, 40000, 60000 IPsec tunnels. + Removed DPDK backend dependency. Major IPsec test code + refactoring. + + - **Hoststack TCP/IP tests**: Major refactor of Hoststack TCP + performance tests using WRK generator talking to the VPP HTTP + static server plugin measuring connections per second and + requests per second. + + - **Changed methodology of dot1q tests in 2-Node testbeds**: dot1q + encapsulation is now used on both links of SUT. Previously dot1q + was used only on a single link with the other link carrying + untagged Ethernet frames. This change results in slightly lower + throughput in CSIT-1908 for all dot1q tests in all 2-Node + testbeds. - - **Performance trending**: Further improvements of continuous - performance trending, anomaly detection and analysis. + - **KVM VM vhost-user tests**: completed move to Kernel-VM for all + tests. In addition to running DPDK Testpmd as VM workload, new + tests created with VPP as VM workload. VPP in VM is the same + version as the DUT VPP (acting as vSwitch) and its configuration + depends on the test type. For all L2 Ethernet Switching tests + it's vpp-l2xc (L2 cross-connect), for all IPv4 Routing tests it's + vpp-ip4 (VPP IPv4 routing). -#. TEST FRAMEWORK OPTIMIZATIONS +#. TEST FRAMEWORK + + - **CSIT PAPI Support**: Finished conversion of CSIT VAT L1 keywords + to PAPI L1 KWs in CSIT using VPP Python bindings (VPP PAPI). + Redesign of key components of PAPI Socket Executor and PAPI + history. 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 RF keywords optimizations, - removal of redundant RF keywords. + removal of redundant RF keywords and aligning of suite/test + setup/teardowns. + + +#. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER + + - **Graphs Layout Improvements**: Improved performance graphs layout + for better readibility and maintenance: test grouping, axis + labels, descriptions, other informative decoration. .. raw:: latex @@ -65,46 +73,46 @@ Known Issues List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests: -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| # | JiraID | Issue Description | -+====+=========================================+=================================================================================================================================+ -| 1 | `CSIT-570 | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures on x520. DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue. | -| | `_ | Suspected issue with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed outside of LF testbeds. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 2 | `VPP-1361 | High failure rate of api call sw_interface_set_flags [admin-up|link-up]. | -| | `_ | Failure rate: 30-40% of tests failing due to interfaces not in link-up state after API call sw_interface_set_flags. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 3 | `CSIT-1234 | VPP IPSecHW scale interface mode 1core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-hsw testbeds, in CSIT-18.07 vs. CSIT-18.04. | -| | `_ | ip4ipsecscale1000tnl-ip4base-int 1core CSIT-18.07/18.04 relative change: NDR -31%, PDR -32%, MRR -38%. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 4 | `CSIT-1242 | VPP xl710 ip4base test 1core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-hsw testbeds, in CSIT-18.07 vs. CSIT-18.04. | -| | `_ | xl710 ip4base 1core CSIT-18.07/18.04 relative change: NDR -29%, high stdev. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 5 | `CSIT-1243 | VPP nat44 base test 2core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-skx testbeds, compared to 3n-hsw testbeds. | -| | `_ | ip4base-nat44 2core 3n-skx/3n-hsw relative change: NDR -19%, PDR -22%. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 6 | `CSIT-1244 | VPP lispip4 base test 2core, low NDR and PDR 64B throughput in 3n-skx testbeds, compared to 3n-hsw testbeds. | -| | `_ | ip4lispip4-ip4base 2core 3n-skx/3n-hsw relative change: NDR -11%, PDR -18%. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 7 | `CSIT-1245 | VPP srv6proxy-stat and srv6proxy-masq, much higher NDR and PDR 78B throughput in 3n-hsw testbeds, in CSIT-18.07 vs. CSIT-18.04. | -| | `_ | Due to wrong test suite configuration in dynamic-proxy mode. Artefact of suite code refactoring. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 8 | `CSIT-1246 | Ligato K8S orchestrated tests are failing due to incompatibility of the latest released Ligato vpp-agent with VPP-18.07. | -| | `_ | Past vpp-agent releases are not compatible either. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 9 | `CSIT-1253 | VPP lbdpdk link bonding tests failing due to interfaces not coming up. | -| | `_ | VPP lbdpdk link bonding tests relying on DPDK functionality for bonding fail. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 10 | `CSIT-1266 | Because of wrong Multi Seq configuration in the suite "csit/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-mrr.robot", | -| | `_ | the data generated by this suite is incorrect. The bug was fixed by the `patch 14440 `_. | -| | | The incorrect data will be replaced by new generated correct data. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 11 | `CSIT-1267 | Because of the wrong NIC configuration in suites | -| | `_ | tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x710-1lbvpplacp-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot, | -| | | tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x710-1lbvpplacp-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot, | -| | | tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x710-1lbvpplacp-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot, | -| | | tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x710-1lbvpplacp-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot | -| | | the data generated by this suites is incorrect. | -| | | The bug was fixed by the `patch 14395 `_. | -| | | The incorrect data will be replaced by new generated correct data. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| # | JiraID | Issue Description | ++====+=========================================+==========================================================================================================+ +| 1 | `CSIT-570 | Sporadic (1 in 200) NDR discovery test failures on x520. DPDK reporting rx-errors, indicating L1 issue. | +| | `_ | Suspected issue with HW combination of X710-X520 in LF testbeds. Not observed outside of LF testbeds. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 2 | `VPP-662 | 9000B packets not supported by NICs VIC1227 and VIC1387. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 3 | `CSIT-1503 | [`TRex-519 `_] XL710/XXV710 with FW 6.0.1 will have | +| | `_ | Rx drop rate of 27MPPS. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 4 | `CSIT-1498 | Memif tests are sporadically failing on initialization of memif connection. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 5 | `CSIT-1499 | AVF tests are sporadically failing on initialization of AVF interface. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 6 | `VPP-1676 | 9000B ip4 memif errors - ip4-input: ip4 length > l2 length. | +| | `_ | IP4 jumbo frames (9000B) are dropped in case of tests with memif. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 7 | `VPP-1677 | 9000B ip4 nat44: VPP crash + coredump. | +| | `_ | VPP crashes very often in case that NAT44 is configured and it has to process IP4 jumbo frames (9000B). | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 8 | `CSIT-1591 | All CSIT scale tests can not use PAPI due to much slower performance compared to VAT/CLI (it takes much | +| | `_ | longer to program VPP). This needs to be addressed on the PAPI side. | +| +-----------------------------------------+ | +| | `VPP-1763 | | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 9 | `CSIT-1592 | VPP memif API does not enable memif zero-copy, resulting in different memif configuration vs. previously | +| | `_ | tested VAT/CLI where memif zero-copy was enabled by default. Needs to be fixed in VPP. | +| +-----------------------------------------+ | +| | `VPP-1764 | | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 10 | `VPP-1675 | IPv4 IPSEC 9000B packet tests are failing as no packet is forwarded. | +| | `_ | Reason: chained buffers are not supported. | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| 11 | `CSIT-1593 | IPv4 AVF 9000B packet tests are failing on 3n-skx while passing on 2n-skx. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +