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=3ee4ff33fdec4cb89c0d39c3a3020215cf7bd0f8;hp=8499bca7ff31107f7ee83dfa902b826efb44f5e6;hb=b6d7373834eb3fa6e8543be9c8379507d6d91273;hpb=9a89069be33f11879f8307e5b774c6e1e7afa398 diff --git a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst index 8499bca7ff..3ee4ff33fd 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -4,83 +4,43 @@ CSIT Release Notes Changes in CSIT |release| ------------------------- -#. Test environment changes in VPP data plane performance tests: - - - Further characterization and optimizations of VPP vhost-user and VM test - methodology and test environment; - - - Tests with varying Qemu virtio queue (a.k.a. vring) sizes: - [vr256] default 256 descriptors, [vr1024] 1024 descriptors to - optimize for packet throughput; - - - Tests with varying Linux :abbr:`CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler)` - settings: [cfs] default settings, [cfsrr1] :abbr:`CFS (Completely Fair - Scheduler)` RoundRobin(1) policy applied to all data plane threads - handling test packet path including all VPP worker threads and all Qemu - testpmd poll-mode threads; - - - Resulting test cases are all combinations with [vr256,vr1024] and - [cfs,cfsrr1] settings; - - - For more detail see performance results observations section in - this report; - -#. Code updates and optimizations in CSIT performance framework: - - - Complete CSIT framework code revision and optimizations as descried - on CSIT wiki page `Design_Optimizations - `_. +#. Added VPP performance tests - - For more detail see the :ref:`CSIT Framework Design ` section - in this report; + - **L2BD MAC scale tests** -#. Changes to CSIT driver for TRex Traffic Generator: + - VPP L2 Bridge-Domain with MAC learning and large size L2FIB (10k, + 100k, 1M MACs), tested in NIC-to-NIC and VM vhost topologies. - - Complete refactor of TRex CSIT driver; + - **Linux Container VPP memif tests** - - Introduction of packet traffic profiles to improve usability and - manageability of traffic profiles for a growing number of test - scenarios. + - Tests with VPP in L2 Bridge-Domain configuration connecting over + memif virtual interfaces to VPPs running in LXCs; - - Support for packet traffic profiles to test IPv4/IPv6 stateful and - stateless DUT data plane features; + - **Docker Container VPP memif tests** -#. Added VPP performance tests + - Tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect configuration connecting over + memif virtual interfaces VPPs running in Docker containers; - - **Linux Container VPP memif virtual interface tests** + - **Container Topologies Orchestrated by K8s with VPP memif tests** - - VPP Memif virtual interface (shared memory interface) tests - interconnecting VPP instances over memif. VPP vswitch - instance runs in bare-metal user-mode handling Intel x520 NIC - 10GbE interfaces and connecting over memif (Master side) virtual - interfaces to another instance of VPP running in bare-metal Linux - Container (LXC) with memif virtual interfaces (Slave side). LXC - runs in a priviliged mode with VPP data plane worker threads - pinned to dedicated physical CPU cores per usual CSIT practice. - Both VPP run the same version of software. This test topology is - equivalent to existing tests with vhost-user and VMs. + - Tests with VPP in L2 Cross-Connect and Bridge-Domain configurations + connecting over memif virtual interfaces VPPs running in Docker + containers, with service chain topologies orchestrated by Kubernetes; - **Stateful Security Groups** - - New tests of VPP stateful security-groups a.k.a. acl-plugin - functionally compatible with networking-vpp OpenStack; - - - New tested security-groups access-control-lists (acl) - configuration variants include: [iaclNsl] input acl stateless, - [oaclNsl] output acl stateless, [iaclNsf] input acl stateful - a.k.a. reflect, [oaclNsf] output acl stateful a.k.a. reflect, - where N is number of access-control-entries (ace) in the acl. + - m-thread m-core VPP stateful and stateless security-groups tests; - - Testing packet flows transmitted by TG: 100, 10k, 100k, always - hitting the last permit entry in acl. + - **MAC-IP binding** - - **VPP vhost and VM tests** + - MACIP input access-lists, single-thread single-core and m-thread + m-core tests; - - New VPP vhost-user and VM test cases to benchmark performance of - VPP and VM topologies with Qemu and CFS policy combinations of - [vr256,vr1024] x [cfs,cfsrr1]; +#. Presentation and Analytics Layer - - Statistical analysis of repeatibility of results; + - New Presentation and Analytics Layer (PAL) for automated CSIT test + results analysis and presentation, including statistical analysis + of results repeatibility and test report auto-generation; Performance Improvements ------------------------ @@ -91,8 +51,8 @@ double-digit percentage points. Relative improvements for this release are calculated against the test results listed in CSIT |release-1| report. The comparison is calculated between the mean values based on collected and archived test results' samples for involved VPP releases. Standard deviation -has been also listed for CSIT |release|. VPP-16.09 and VPP-17.01 numbers are -provided for reference. +has been also listed for CSIT |release|. Performance numbers since release +VPP-16.09 are provided for reference. NDR Throughput ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -111,7 +71,7 @@ Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests: \makeatletter \csvset{ - perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{5cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, + perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, } \makeatother @@ -143,7 +103,7 @@ Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%: \makeatletter \csvset{ - perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{5cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, + perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, } \makeatother @@ -159,8 +119,8 @@ Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%: Measured improvements are in line with VPP code optimizations listed in -`VPP-17.07 release notes -`_. +`VPP-17.10 release notes +`_. Other Performance Changes ------------------------- @@ -187,7 +147,7 @@ Non-Drop Rate Throughput discovery tests: \makeatletter \csvset{ - perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{5cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, + perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, } \makeatother @@ -219,7 +179,7 @@ Partial Drop Rate thoughput discovery tests with packet Loss Tolerance of 0.5%: \makeatletter \csvset{ - perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{5cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, + perfimprovements column width/.style={after head=\csv@pretable\begin{longtable}{ m{1.5cm} m{4cm} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1} m{#1}}\csv@tablehead}, } \makeatother @@ -242,27 +202,17 @@ Here is the list of known issues in CSIT |release| for VPP performance tests: +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | # | Issue | Jira ID | Description | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 1 | Security-groups acl-plugin scale tests failure | CSIT-731 | VPP with 2 worker threads crashes during security-groups | -| | with stateful acls if VPP with 2 worker threads | VPP-912 | iaclNsf and oaclNsf tests with 100k flows. | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 2 | VPP fails memif tests in 4 worker 2 core setup | CSIT-732 | VPP with 4 worker threads running on 2 physical cores crashes | -| | | VPP-920 | during memif tests. Initial debugging points to DPDK code | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 3 | NDR discovery test failures 1518B frame size | VPP-663 | VPP reporting errors: dpdk-input Rx ip checksum errors. | -| | for ip4scale200k, ip4scale2m scale IPv4 routed- | | Observed frequency: all test runs. | -| | forwarding tests. ip4scale20k tests are fine. | | | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 4 | Vic1385 and Vic1227 low performance. | VPP-664 | Low NDR performance. | +| 1 | Vic1385 and Vic1227 low performance. | VPP-664 | Low NDR performance. | | | | | | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 5 | Sporadic NDR discovery test failures on x520. | CSIT-750 | Suspected issue with HW settings (BIOS, FW) in LF | +| 2 | Sporadic NDR discovery test failures on x520. | CSIT-750 | Suspected issue with HW settings (BIOS, FW) in LF | | | | | infrastructure. Issue can't be replicated outside LF. | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 6 | VPP in 2t2c setups - large variation | CSIT-568 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR | +| 3 | VPP in 2t2c setups - large variation | CSIT-568 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR | | | of discovered NDR throughput values across | | throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs, x520 NICs are fine. | | | multiple test runs with xl710 and x710 NICs. | | | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 7 | Lower than expected NDR and PDR throughput with | CSIT-569 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR and | +| 4 | Lower than expected NDR throughput with | CSIT-569 | Suspected NIC firmware or DPDK driver issue affecting NDR and | | | xl710 and x710 NICs, compared to x520 NICs. | | PDR throughput. Applies to XL710 and X710 NICs. | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+