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=f6887e138f44f497262cbd1dfbc5308e12d7bed3;hp=580ef4812a538dba552a3d10b841679a9dec5e1a;hb=b8502d5ccf9030270fafe06fe860143b5f9b78d0;hpb=9e00a9702f6b17ff85c597a0915ffb8b693e87ba diff --git a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst index 580ef4812a..f6887e138f 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -6,63 +6,67 @@ 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. - - - **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. + - **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. + + - **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. #. **Presentation and Analytics Layer** - - **Performance trending**: Further improved continuous performance - trending with anomaly detection and analysis. + - **Performance trending**: Further improved continuous performance + trending with anomaly detection and analysis. #. **Test Framework Optimizations** - - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing RF keywords optimizations, - removal of redundant RF keywords. + - **General Code Housekeeping**: Ongoing RF keywords optimizations, + removal of redundant RF keywords. Performance Changes ------------------- -Relative performance changes in measured packet throughput in |csit-release| -are calculated against the results from |csit-release-1| -report. Listed mean and standard deviation values are computed based on -a series of the same tests executed against respective VPP releases to -verify test results repeatability, with percentage change calculated for -mean values. Note that the standard deviation is quite high for a small +Relative performance changes in measured NDR, PDR and MRR packet +throughput in |csit-release| are calculated against the test results +from |csit-release-1| report, for tests running on 3-Node Intel Xeon +Haswell testbeds (3n-hsw) in 1-core, 2-core and 4-core (MRR only) +configurations. + +Listed mean and standard deviation values are computed based on a series +of the same tests executed against respective VPP releases to verify +test results repeatability, with percentage change calculated for mean +values. Note that the standard deviation is quite high for a small number of packet throughput tests, what indicates poor test results repeatability and makes the relative change of mean throughput value not fully representative for these tests. The root causes behind poor @@ -71,119 +75,121 @@ results repeatability vary between the test cases. NDR Changes ~~~~~~~~~~~ -NDR throughput changes between releases are available in a -CSV and pretty ASCII formats: +NDR throughput changes between releases are available in CSV and pretty +ASCII formats: - - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-ndr.csv>`_, - - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-ndr.csv>`_, - - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-ndr.txt>`_, - - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-ndr.txt>`_. + - `CSV 1t1c NDR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-ndr.csv>`_, + - `CSV 2t2c NDR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-ndr.csv>`_, + - `ASCII 1t1c NDR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-ndr.txt>`_, + - `ASCII 2t2c NDR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-ndr.txt>`_. .. note:: Test results have been generated by `FD.io test executor vpp performance job 3n-hsw`_, - with Robot Framework result + with RF result files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_. PDR Changes ~~~~~~~~~~~ -PDR throughput changes between releases are available in a -CSV and pretty ASCII formats: +PDR throughput changes between releases are available in CSV and pretty +ASCII formats: - - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-pdr.csv>`_, - - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-pdr.csv>`_, - - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-pdr.txt>`_, - - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-pdr.txt>`_. + - `CSV 1t1c PDR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-pdr.csv>`_, + - `CSV 2t2c PDR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-pdr.csv>`_, + - `ASCII 1t1c PDR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-pdr.txt>`_, + - `ASCII 2t2c PDR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-pdr.txt>`_. .. note:: Test results have been generated by `FD.io test executor vpp performance job 3n-hsw`_, - with Robot Framework result + with RF result files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_. MRR Changes ~~~~~~~~~~~ -MRR small packet throughput changes between releases are available in a -CSV and pretty ASCII formats: +MRR throughput changes between releases are available in CSV and pretty +ASCII formats: - - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-mrr.csv>`_, - - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-mrr.csv>`_, - - `csv format for 4t4c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-4t4c-mrr.csv>`_, - - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-mrr.txt>`_, - - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-mrr.txt>`_, - - `pretty ASCII format for 4t4c <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-4t4c-mrr.txt>`_. + - `CSV 1t1c MRR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-mrr.csv>`_, + - `CSV 2t2c MRR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-mrr.csv>`_, + - `CSV 4t4c MRR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-4t4c-mrr.csv>`_, + - `ASCII 1t1c MRR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-1t1c-mrr.txt>`_, + - `ASCII 2t2c MRR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-2t2c-mrr.txt>`_, + - `ASCII 4t4c MRR changes <../_static/vpp/performance-changes-4t4c-mrr.txt>`_. .. note:: Test results have been generated by `FD.io test executor vpp performance job 3n-hsw`_, - with Robot Framework result + with RF result files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_. -Comparison Across Testbeds --------------------------- +Skx vs. Hsw Comparison +---------------------- -Relative performance changes in measured packet throughputon 3-Node Skx testbed -are calculated against the results measured on 3-Node Hsw testbed. +Relative performance comparison in measured NDR, PDR and MRR packet +throughput is calculated for tests executed on 3-Node Skylake (3n-skx) +and 3-Node Haswell (3n-hsw) physical testbed types in 1-core +configurations. -NDR Changes -~~~~~~~~~~~ +NDR Comparison +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -NDR changes between testbeds are available in a -CSV and pretty ASCII formats: +NDR comparison between testbed types is available in CSV and pretty +ASCII formats: - - `csv format for ndr <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-ndr.csv>`_, - - `pretty ASCII format for ndr <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-ndr.txt>`_. + - `CSV 1c NDR comparison <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-ndr.csv>`_, + - `ASCII 1c NDR comparison <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-ndr.txt>`_. .. note:: Test results have been generated by `FD.io test executor vpp performance job 3n-hsw`_ and `FD.io test executor vpp performance job 3n-skx`_ - with Robot Framework result + with RF result files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_. -PDR Changes -~~~~~~~~~~~ +PDR Comparison +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -PDR throughput changes between testbeds are available in a -CSV and pretty ASCII formats: +PDR comparison between testbed types is available in CSV and pretty +ASCII formats: - - `csv format for pdr <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-pdr.csv>`_, - - `pretty ASCII format for pdr <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-pdr.txt>`_. + - `CSV 1c PDR comparison <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-pdr.csv>`_, + - `ASCII 1c PDR comparison <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-pdr.txt>`_. .. note:: Test results have been generated by `FD.io test executor vpp performance job 3n-hsw`_ and `FD.io test executor vpp performance job 3n-skx`_ - with Robot Framework result + with RF result files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_. -MRR Changes -~~~~~~~~~~~ +MRR Comparison +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -MRR throughput changes between testbeds are available in a -CSV and pretty ASCII formats: +MRR comparison between testbed types is available in CSV and pretty +ASCII formats: - - `csv format for mrr <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-mrr.csv>`_, - - `pretty ASCII format for mrr <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-mrr.txt>`_. + - `CSV 1c MRR comparison <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-mrr.csv>`_, + - `ASCII 1c MRR comparison <../_static/vpp/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-mrr.txt>`_. .. note:: Test results have been generated by `FD.io test executor vpp performance job 3n-hsw`_ and `FD.io test executor vpp performance job 3n-skx`_ - with Robot Framework result + with RF result files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_.