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=69444d2a3a242b2a88946a1f0d107389a06c3f92;hp=34d943e0ab81c98031704b441c823abe590cd244;hb=0d53d645a6d78b581e7ad1e257af4f943a52f465;hpb=d8acc8c6a37f5a3aae87dfc642e47058fc4b9a21 diff --git a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst index 34d943e0ab..69444d2a3a 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -4,81 +4,32 @@ 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 - `_. - - - For more detail see the :ref:`CSIT Framework Design ` section - in this report; - -#. Changes to CSIT driver for TRex Traffic Generator: +#. Added VPP performance tests - - 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. - - - Testing packet flows transmitted by TG: 100, 10k, 100k, always - hitting the last permit entry in acl. + - m-thread m-core VPP stateful and stateless security-groups tests; - - **VPP vhost and VM tests** + - **MAC-IP binding** - - 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]; + - MACIP input access-lists, single-thread single-core and m-thread + m-core tests; - Statistical analysis of repeatibility of results; @@ -91,8 +42,8 @@ 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 +62,7 @@ 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} 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 +94,7 @@ 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} 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 @@ -187,7 +138,7 @@ 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} 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 +170,7 @@ 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} 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 @@ -252,7 +203,7 @@ Here is the list of known issues in CSIT |release| for VPP performance tests: | | 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. | | | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 4 | 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. | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+