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=d54a09665323537cfc3f34d776e8a0426b9dce7d;hb=0b55629547520ee3c23ff4f4dd45a59d7467e75e;hpb=a7c05028fb0d58c7332e51e79c394e3fe059e7a5 diff --git a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst index d54a096653..361cbf3052 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -6,82 +6,61 @@ Changes in |csit-release| #. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS - - **BMRR Throughput**: MRR (Maximum Receive Rate) test code has been - updated with a configurable burst MRR parameters: trial duration - and number of trials in a single burst. Enables a new Burst MRR - (BMRR for short) methodology for more precise performance - trending. See updated :ref:`performance_test_methodology` section - for more details. - - - **2n-skx tests**: Added performamce tests for 2n-skx (2-Node Xeon - Skylake) testbeds: focus on baseline and scale tests, including - VM vhost and Container memif tests. - - - **3n-skx tests**: Added performamce tests for 3n-skx (3-Node Xeon - Skylake) testbeds: VM vhost and Container memif tests. - - - **VXLAN Scale Tests**: Added performamce tests for VXLAN scale with - dot1q and VPP L2BD. - - - **AVF Driver Tests**: Added performamce tests for i40e AVF driver - on VPP, no DPDK required. - - - **QAT**: Fixed reoccuring issues with QAT crypto accelerator cards. - - - **VM Vhost Virtio Params Combinations**: Added performance tests - for VM vhost with different virtio parameters combinations: - indirect buffers, mergeable buffers. - - - **K8s/Ligato in Trending**: Added K8s/Ligato Container memif tests - to daily trending. + - **Service density 2n-skx tests**: Added higher NF density tests with + 802.1q (vlan) and VXLAN encapsulation from Traffic Generator. + + - **GBP tests**: Added GBP (Group Based Policy) routing test cases + with 802.1q (vlan) external traffic. + + - **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. + + - **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 - - **Experimental Soak Tests**: Added performamce soak tests framework - code for extended time duration tests and throughput discovery - at given PLR and at give total test time e.g. minutes, hours, - days, weeks, months, years. See updated - :ref:`performance_test_methodology` section for more details. - - - **Trending Tests BMRR**: Used new Burst MRR (BMRR) tests for daily - trending. - - - **Per VPP Patch Performance Checks**: Per VPP gerrit patch vs. - parent performance tests, anomaly detection and no verify voting - (-1/0/+1) yet. Manual trigger only. Not "marketed" to FD.io - community yet to avoid excessive LFN FD.io physical performance - testbed blocking. - - - **Patch-on-Patch Infra**: Added capability to run performance tests - using CSIT gerrit patch code testing VPP gerrit patch code, i.e. - before any VPP and/or CSIT code is merged into git branch. - - - **CSIT PAPI Support**: Initial implementation of PAPI L1 KWs in - CSIT using VPP Python bindings. Required for migraing away from - VAT. Very few L1 KWs implemented ("show version", "show - interfaces"). + - **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. Master report - generated. 744 graphs(!) - - - **Performance Trending**: Further improvements of continuous - performance trending, anomaly detection and analysis. - -#. MISCELLANEOUS - - - **3n-dnv Tests (3rd Party)**: Published performance tests for 3n- - dnv (3-Node Atom Denverton) from 3rd party testbeds running FD.io - |csit-release| automated testing code. - Only graphs for Packet Throughput and Speedup Multi-core and not - for Packet Latency were published as there are no results for Packet - Latency available. + labels, descriptions, other informative decoration. .. raw:: latex @@ -94,22 +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 | `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%. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 3 | `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. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 4 | `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%. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 5 | `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. | -+----+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +| # | 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. | +| | `_ | | ++----+-----------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+