Add eth-ip4base-2memif[ndrpdr|mrr] perf tests for 2-node topology

- added also 3-node test cases for comparison

Jira: CSIT-1261

Change-Id: I1bfcc184e925e969d4a610920c4e49af23047507
Signed-off-by: Jan Gelety <jgelety@cisco.com>

12 files changed, 1611 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/resources/libraries/python/VatJsonUtil.py b/resources/libraries/python/VatJsonUtil.py
index 8414838715..ef92a24f07 100644
--- a/resources/libraries/python/VatJsonUtil.py
+++ b/resources/libraries/python/VatJsonUtil.py
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ class VatJsonUtil(object):
             if not interface_dict:
                 logger.trace('Interface {0} not found by MAC {1}'
                              .format(ifc, if_mac))
+                ifc['vpp_sw_index'] = None
                 continue
             ifc['name'] = interface_dict["interface_name"]
             ifc['vpp_sw_index'] = interface_dict["sw_if_index"]
diff --git a/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_configuration.robot b/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_configuration.robot
index 52ac879559..cd522e753c 100644
--- a/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_configuration.robot
+++ b/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_configuration.robot
@@ -2685,6 +2685,148 @@
 | | Set interfaces in path up
 | | Show Memif on all DUTs | ${nodes}
 
+| Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs on DUT node
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | Create pairs of Memif interfaces on DUT node. Put each Memif interface
+| | ... | to separate IPv4 VRF with one physical or virtual interface
+| | ... | to create a chain accross DUT node.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - ${dut} - DUT node. Type: dictionary
+| | ... | - ${count} - Number of memif pairs (containers). Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Note:*
+| | ... | Socket paths for Memif are defined in following format:
+| | ... | - /tmp/memif-${dut}_VNF${number}-${sid}
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Example:*
+| | ...
+| | ... | \| Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs on DUT node \
+| | ... | \| ${dut} \| ${1} \|
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${dut} | ${count}
+| | ...
+| | @{duts}= | Get Matches | ${nodes} | DUT*
+| | ${dut_index}= | Get Index From List | ${duts} | ${dut}
+| | ${duts_length}= | Get Length | ${duts}
+| | ${last_dut_index}= | Evaluate | ${duts_length} - ${1}
+| | ...
+| | ${tg_if1_net}= | Set Variable | 10.10.10.0
+| | ${tg_if2_net}= | Set Variable | 20.20.20.0
+| | ...
+| | ${fib_table_1}= | Set Variable | ${10}
+| | Run Keyword If | ${fib_table_1} > ${0}
+| | ... | Add Fib Table | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${fib_table_1}
+| | ${ip_base_if1}= | Evaluate | ${dut_index} + ${1}
+| | ${ip_net_if1}= | Set Variable
+| | ... | ${ip_base_if1}.${ip_base_if1}.${ip_base_if1}
+| | Vpp Route Add | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${tg_if1_net} | 24 | vrf=${fib_table_1}
+| | ... | gateway=${ip_net_if1}.1 | interface=${${dut}_if1} | multipath=${TRUE}
+| | Assign Interface To Fib Table | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${${dut}_if1}
+| | ... | ${fib_table_1}
+| | Configure IP addresses on interfaces | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${${dut}_if1}
+| | ... | ${ip_net_if1}.2 | 30
+| | ${prev_node}= | Run Keyword If | ${dut_index} == ${0}
+| | ... | Set Variable | TG
+| | ... | ELSE | Get From List | ${duts} | ${dut_index-${1}}
+| | ${prev_if}= | Run Keyword If | ${dut_index} == ${0}
+| | ... | Set Variable | if1
+| | ... | ELSE | Set Variable | if2
+| | ${prev_if_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${nodes['${prev_node}']}
+| | ... | ${${prev_node}_${prev_if}}
+| | Add ARP on DUT | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${${dut}_if1} | ${ip_net_if1}.1
+| | ... | ${prev_if_mac}
+| | ...
+| | ${fib_table_2}= | Evaluate | ${fib_table_1} + ${count}
+| | Add Fib Table | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${fib_table_2}
+| | ${ip_base_if2}= | Evaluate | ${ip_base_if1} + ${1}
+| | ${ip_net_if2}= | Set Variable
+| | ... | ${ip_base_if2}.${ip_base_if2}.${ip_base_if2}
+| | Vpp Route Add | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${tg_if2_net} | 24 | vrf=${fib_table_2}
+| | ... | gateway=${ip_net_if2}.2 | interface=${${dut}_if2} | multipath=${TRUE}
+| | Assign Interface To Fib Table | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${${dut}_if2}
+| | ... | ${fib_table_2}
+| | Configure IP addresses on interfaces | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${${dut}_if2}
+| | ... | ${ip_net_if2}.1 | 30
+| | ${next_node}= | Run Keyword If | ${dut_index} == ${last_dut_index}
+| | ... | Set Variable | TG
+| | ... | ELSE | Get From List | ${duts} | ${dut_index+${1}}
+| | ${next_if}= | Run Keyword If | ${dut_index} == ${last_dut_index}
+| | ... | Set Variable | if2
+| | ... | ELSE | Set Variable | if1
+| | ${next_if_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${nodes['${next_node}']}
+| | ... | ${${next_node}_${next_if}}
+| | Add ARP on DUT | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${${dut}_if2} | ${ip_net_if2}.2
+| | ... | ${next_if_mac}
+| | ...
+| | ${fib_table_1}= | Evaluate | ${fib_table_1} - ${1}
+| | ${ip_base_start}= | Set Variable | ${31}
+| | :FOR | ${number} | IN RANGE | 1 | ${count+${1}}
+| | | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_VNF
+| | | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_VNF
+| | | Set up memif interfaces on DUT node | ${nodes['${dut}']}
+| | | ... | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | ${number} | ${dut}-memif-${number}-if1
+| | | ... | ${dut}-memif-${number}-if2 | ${rxq_count_int} | ${rxq_count_int}
+| | | ${memif1}= | Set Variable | ${${dut}-memif-${number}-if1}
+| | | ${memif2}= | Set Variable | ${${dut}-memif-${number}-if2}
+| | | ${fib_table_1}= | Evaluate | ${fib_table_1} + ${1}
+| | | ${fib_table_2}= | Evaluate | ${fib_table_1} + ${1}
+| | | Run Keyword Unless | ${number} == ${count}
+| | | ... | Add Fib Table | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${fib_table_2}
+| | | Assign Interface To Fib Table | ${nodes['${dut}']}
+| | | ... | ${memif1} | ${fib_table_1}
+| | | Assign Interface To Fib Table | ${nodes['${dut}']}
+| | | ... | ${memif2} | ${fib_table_2}
+| | | ${ip_base_memif1}= | Evaluate
+| | | ... | ${ip_base_start} + (${number} - ${1}) * ${2}
+| | | ${ip_base_memif2}= | Evaluate | ${ip_base_memif1} + ${1}
+| | | ${ip_net_memif1}= | Set Variable
+| | | ... | ${ip_base_memif1}.${ip_base_memif1}.${ip_base_memif1}
+| | | ${ip_net_memif2}= | Set Variable
+| | | ... | ${ip_base_memif2}.${ip_base_memif2}.${ip_base_memif2}
+| | | Configure IP addresses on interfaces
+| | | ... | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${memif1} | ${ip_net_memif1}.1 | 30
+| | | ... | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${memif2} | ${ip_net_memif2}.1 | 30
+| | | Vpp Route Add | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${tg_if2_net} | 24
+| | | ... | vrf=${fib_table_1} | gateway=${ip_net_memif2}.1
+| | | ... | interface=${memif1}
+| | | Vpp Route Add | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${tg_if1_net} | 24
+| | | ... | vrf=${fib_table_2} | gateway=${ip_net_memif1}.1
+| | | ... | interface=${memif2}
+| | | ${memif_if1_key}= | Get interface by sw index | ${nodes['${dut}']}
+| | | ... | ${memif1}
+| | | ${memif_if1_mac}= | Get interface mac | ${nodes['${dut}']}
+| | | ... | ${memif_if1_key}
+| | | ${memif_if2_key}= | Get interface by sw index | ${nodes['${dut}']}
+| | | ... | ${memif2}
+| | | ${memif_if2_mac}= | Get interface mac | ${nodes['${dut}']}
+| | | ... | ${memif_if2_key}
+| | | Add arp on dut | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${memif1} | ${ip_net_memif2}.1
+| | | ... | ${memif_if2_mac}
+| | | Add arp on dut | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${memif2} | ${ip_net_memif1}.1
+| | | ... | ${memif_if1_mac}
+
+| Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | Create pairs of Memif interfaces on all defined VPP nodes. Put each
+| | ... | Memif interface to separate IPv4 VRF with one physical or
+| | ... | virtual interface to create a chain accross DUT node.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - ${count} - Number of memif pairs (containers). Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Example:*
+| | ...
+| | ... | \| Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs \| ${1} \|
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${count}=${1}
+| | ...
+| | ${duts}= | Get Matches | ${nodes} | DUT*
+| | :FOR | ${dut} | IN | @{duts}
+| | | Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs on DUT node | ${dut} | ${count}
+| | Set interfaces in path up
+| | Show Memif on all DUTs | ${nodes}
+
 | Initialize L2 xconnect for single memif
 | | [Documentation]
 | | ... | Create single Memif interface on all defined VPP nodes. Cross
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..37bc41dc22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X520-DA2
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 routing test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing with two FIB tables and two static IPv4 /24 route entries per
+| ... | FIB table. Container is connected to VPP via Memif interface. Container
+| ... | is running same VPP version as running on DUT. Container is limited via
+| ... | cgroup to use cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no
+| ... | memory contraints. DUTs are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520-DA2 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed371d8a31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X520-DA2
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 routing test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing with two FIB tables and two static IPv4 /24 route entries per
+| ... | FIB table. Container is connected to VPP via Memif interface. Container
+| ... | is running same VPP version as running on DUT. Container is limited via
+| ... | cgroup to use cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no
+| ... | memory contraints. DUTs are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520-DA2 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..866202530b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 routing test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing with two FIB tables and two static IPv4 /24 route entries per
+| ... | FIB table. Container is connected to VPP via Memif interface. Container
+| ... | is running same VPP version as running on DUT. Container is limited via
+| ... | cgroup to use cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no
+| ... | memory contraints. DUTs are tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9827aa9dbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 routing test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing with two FIB tables and two static IPv4 /24 route entries per
+| ... | FIB table. Container is connected to VPP via Memif interface. Container
+| ... | is running same VPP version as running on DUT. Container is limited via
+| ... | cgroup to use cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no
+| ... | memory contraints. DUTs are tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0b8c23d9aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 routing test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4 routing with
+| ... | two FIB tables and two static IPv4 /24 route entries per FIB table.
+| ... | Container is connected to VPP via Memif interface. Container is running
+| ... | same VPP version as running on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to
+| ... | use cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUT1. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..027d6b9698
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 routing test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4 routing with
+| ... | two FIB tables and two static IPv4 /24 route entries per FIB table.
+| ... | Container is connected to VPP via Memif interface. Container is running
+| ... | same VPP version as running on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to
+| ... | use cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUT1. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9f3442806
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-XXV710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 routing test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4 routing with
+| ... | two FIB tables and two static IPv4 /24 route entries per FIB table.
+| ... | Container is connected to VPP via Memif interface. Container is running
+| ... | same VPP version as running on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to
+| ... | use cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUT1. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..37eae679d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-XXV710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 routing test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4 routing with
+| ... | two FIB tables and two static IPv4 /24 route entries per FIB table.
+| ... | Container is connected to VPP via Memif interface. Container is running
+| ... | same VPP version as running on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to
+| ... | use cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUT1. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G} | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps} | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..88a7e9b70c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XL710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-XL710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 routing test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing with two FIB tables and two static IPv4 /24 route entries per
+| ... | FIB table. Container is connected to VPP via Memif interface. Container
+| ... | is running same VPP version as running on DUT. Container is limited via
+| ... | cgroup to use cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no
+| ... | memory contraints. DUTs are tested with 2p40GE NIC XL710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XL710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XL710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XL710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-XL710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 routing test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing with two FIB tables and two static IPv4 /24 route entries per
+| ... | FIB table. Container is connected to VPP via Memif interface. Container
+| ... | is running same VPP version as running on DUT. Container is limited via
+| ... | cgroup to use cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no
+| ... | memory contraints. DUTs are tested with 2p40GE NIC XL710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XL710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XL710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}