Add 1M flows test suites of VPP IP4 and VPP IP6

VPP routing with one million fib rules also is a key indicator for
performance benchmark

Signed-off-by: xinfeng zhao <xinfengx.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yulong Pei <yulong.pei@intel.com>
Change-Id: I19b52f6b96bdc5ed1e76305d258825fb17bd3af9
(cherry picked from commit 5a2822a899e51d3af7b588f3c88b46150ab52cd5)

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diff --git a/GPL/traffic_profiles/trex/trex-stl-ethip4-ip4dst500000.py b/GPL/traffic_profiles/trex/trex-stl-ethip4-ip4dst500000.py
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@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Intel and/or its affiliates.
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 or
+# GNU General Public License v2.0 or later;  you may not use this file
+# except in compliance with one of these Licenses. You
+# may obtain a copy of the Licenses at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#     https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-standalone.html
+#
+# Note: If this file is linked with Scapy, which is GPLv2+, your use of it
+# must be under GPLv2+.  If at any point in the future it is no longer linked
+# with Scapy (or other GPLv2+ licensed software), you are free to choose
+# Apache 2.
+#
+# 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.
+
+"""Stream profile for T-rex traffic generator.
+
+Stream profile:
+ - Two streams sent in directions 0 --> 1 and 1 --> 0 at the same time.
+ - Packet: ETH / IP /
+ - Direction 0 --> 1:
+   - Source IP address range:      10.0.0.1
+   - Destination IP address range: 20.0.0.0 - 20.7.161.31
+ - Direction 1 --> 0:
+   - Source IP address range:      20.0.0.1
+   - Destination IP address range: 10.0.0.0 - 10.7.161.31
+"""
+
+from trex.stl.api import *
+from profile_trex_stateless_base_class import TrafficStreamsBaseClass
+
+
+class TrafficStreams(TrafficStreamsBaseClass):
+    """Stream profile."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        """Initialization and setting of streams' parameters."""
+
+        super(TrafficStreamsBaseClass, self).__init__()
+
+        # IPs used in packet headers.
+        self.p1_src_start_ip = u"10.0.0.1"
+        self.p1_dst_start_ip = u"20.0.0.0"
+        self.p1_dst_end_ip = u"20.7.161.31"
+
+        self.p2_src_start_ip = u"20.0.0.1"
+        self.p2_dst_start_ip = u"10.0.0.0"
+        self.p2_dst_end_ip = u"10.7.161.31"
+
+    def define_packets(self):
+        """Defines the packets to be sent from the traffic generator.
+
+        Packet definition: | ETH | IP |
+
+        :returns: Packets to be sent from the traffic generator.
+        :rtype: tuple
+        """
+
+        # Direction 0 --> 1
+        base_pkt_a = (
+            Ether() /
+            IP(
+                src=self.p1_src_start_ip,
+                dst=self.p1_dst_start_ip,
+                proto=61
+            )
+        )
+        # Direction 1 --> 0
+        base_pkt_b = (
+            Ether() /
+            IP(
+                src=self.p2_src_start_ip,
+                dst=self.p2_dst_start_ip,
+                proto=61
+            )
+        )
+
+        # Direction 0 --> 1
+        vm1 = STLScVmRaw(
+            [
+                STLVmFlowVar(
+                    name=u"dst",
+                    min_value=self.p1_dst_start_ip,
+                    max_value=self.p1_dst_end_ip,
+                    size=4,
+                    op=u"inc"
+                ),
+                STLVmWrFlowVar(
+                    fv_name=u"dst",
+                    pkt_offset=u"IP.dst"
+                ),
+                STLVmFixIpv4(
+                    offset=u"IP"
+                )
+            ]
+        )
+        # Direction 1 --> 0
+        vm2 = STLScVmRaw(
+            [
+                STLVmFlowVar(
+                    name=u"dst",
+                    min_value=self.p2_dst_start_ip,
+                    max_value=self.p2_dst_end_ip,
+                    size=4,
+                    op=u"inc"
+                ),
+                STLVmWrFlowVar(
+                    fv_name=u"dst",
+                    pkt_offset=u"IP.dst"
+                ),
+                STLVmFixIpv4(
+                    offset=u"IP"
+                )
+            ]
+        )
+
+        return base_pkt_a, base_pkt_b, vm1, vm2
+
+
+def register():
+    """Register this traffic profile to T-rex.
+
+    Do not change this function.
+
+    :return: Traffic streams.
+    :rtype: Object
+    """
+    return TrafficStreams()
diff --git a/GPL/traffic_profiles/trex/trex-stl-ethip6-ip6dst500000.py b/GPL/traffic_profiles/trex/trex-stl-ethip6-ip6dst500000.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c3e6a2da96
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Intel and/or its affiliates.
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 or
+# GNU General Public License v2.0 or later;  you may not use this file
+# except in compliance with one of these Licenses. You
+# may obtain a copy of the Licenses at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#     https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-standalone.html
+#
+# Note: If this file is linked with Scapy, which is GPLv2+, your use of it
+# must be under GPLv2+.  If at any point in the future it is no longer linked
+# with Scapy (or other GPLv2+ licensed software), you are free to choose
+# Apache 2.
+#
+# 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.
+
+"""Stream profile for T-rex traffic generator.
+
+Stream profile:
+ - Two streams sent in directions 0 --> 1 and 1 --> 0 at the same time.
+ - Packet: ETH / IPv6 /
+ - Direction 0 --> 1:
+   - Source IP address range:      2001:1::1
+   - Destination IP address range: 2001:2::0 - 2001:2::7:a11f
+ - Direction 1 --> 0:
+   - Source IP address range:      2001:2::1
+   - Destination IP address range: 2001:1::0 - 2001:1::7:a11f
+"""
+
+from trex.stl.api import *
+from profile_trex_stateless_base_class import TrafficStreamsBaseClass
+
+
+class TrafficStreams(TrafficStreamsBaseClass):
+    """Stream profile."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        """Initialization and setting of streams' parameters."""
+
+        super(TrafficStreamsBaseClass, self).__init__()
+
+        # IPs used in packet headers.
+        self.p1_src_start_ip = u"2001:1::1"
+        self.p1_dst_start_ip = u"2001:2::0"
+        self.p1_dst_end_ip = u"2001:2::7:a11f"
+
+        self.p2_src_start_ip = u"2001:2::1"
+        self.p2_dst_start_ip = u"2001:1::0"
+        self.p2_dst_end_ip = u"2001:1::7:a11f"
+
+    def define_packets(self):
+        """Defines the packets to be sent from the traffic generator.
+
+        Packet definition: | ETH | IPv6 |
+
+        :returns: Packets to be sent from the traffic generator.
+        :rtype: tuple
+        """
+
+        base_p1, count_p1 = self._get_start_end_ipv6(
+            self.p1_dst_start_ip,
+            self.p1_dst_end_ip
+        )
+        base_p2, count_p2 = self._get_start_end_ipv6(
+            self.p2_dst_start_ip,
+            self.p2_dst_end_ip
+        )
+
+        # Direction 0 --> 1
+        base_pkt_a = (
+            Ether() /
+            IPv6(
+                src=self.p1_src_start_ip,
+                dst=self.p1_dst_start_ip
+            )
+        )
+        # Direction 1 --> 0
+        base_pkt_b = (
+            Ether() /
+            IPv6(
+                src=self.p2_src_start_ip,
+                dst=self.p2_dst_start_ip
+            )
+        )
+
+        # Direction 0 --> 1
+        vm1 = STLScVmRaw(
+            [
+                STLVmFlowVar(
+                    name=u"ipv6_dst",
+                    min_value=base_p1,
+                    max_value=base_p1 + count_p1,
+                    size=8,
+                    op=u"inc"
+                ),
+                STLVmWrFlowVar(
+                    fv_name=u"ipv6_dst",
+                    pkt_offset=u"IPv6.dst",
+                    offset_fixup=8
+                )
+            ]
+        )
+        # Direction 1 --> 0
+        vm2 = STLScVmRaw(
+            [
+                STLVmFlowVar(
+                    name=u"ipv6_dst",
+                    min_value=base_p2,
+                    max_value=base_p2 + count_p2,
+                    size=8,
+                    op=u"inc"
+                ),
+                STLVmWrFlowVar(
+                    fv_name=u"ipv6_dst",
+                    pkt_offset=u"IPv6.dst",
+                    offset_fixup=8
+                )
+            ]
+        )
+
+        return base_pkt_a, base_pkt_b, vm1, vm2
+
+
+def register():
+    """Register this traffic profile to T-rex.
+
+    Do not change this function.
+
+    :return: Traffic streams.
+    :rtype: Object
+    """
+    return TrafficStreams()
diff --git a/docs/tag_documentation.rst b/docs/tag_documentation.rst
index 4a869d6991..0e787064da 100644
--- a/docs/tag_documentation.rst
+++ b/docs/tag_documentation.rst
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ Scaling Tags
 
     2x100,000 entries in single fib table
 
+.. topic:: FIB_1M
+
+    2x500,000 entries in single fib table
+
 .. topic:: FIB_2M
 
     2x1,000,000 entries in single fib table
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Intel and/or its affiliates.
+# Copyright (c) 2023 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/shared/default.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | SCALE | FIB_1M | DRV_VFIO_PCI
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4-ip4scale1m
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance
+|
+| 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 and 2x500k static IPv4 /32 route entries. DUT1 and DUT2 are \
+| ... | tested with ${nic_name}.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[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, 500k 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.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:** RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so | perfmon_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L3
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${rts_per_flow}= | ${500000}
+# Traffic profile
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-stl-ethip4-ip4dst${rts_per_flow}
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - 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] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| |
+| | Given Set Max Rate And Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding with scaling in circular topology
+| | ... | ${rts_per_flow}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..084646bfb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Intel and/or its affiliates.
+# Copyright (c) 2023 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/shared/default.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | SCALE | FIB_1M | DRV_VFIO_PCI
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4-ip4scale1m
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance
+|
+| 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 \
+| ... | and 2x500k static IPv4 /32 route entries. DUT1 is tested with \
+| ... | ${nic_name}.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[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, 500k 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.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:** RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so | perfmon_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L3
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${rts_per_flow}= | ${500000}
+# Traffic profile
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-stl-ethip4-ip4dst${rts_per_flow}
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - 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] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| |
+| | Given Set Max Rate And Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding with scaling in circular topology
+| | ... | ${rts_per_flow}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip6/10ge2p1x710-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip6/10ge2p1x710-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip6/10ge2p1x710-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2023 Intel and/or its affiliates.
+# Copyright (c) 2023 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/shared/default.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP6FWD | SCALE | FIB_1M | DRV_VFIO_PCI
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip6-ip6scale1m
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv6 routing test cases**
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[Top] Network Topologies:** TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular \
+| ... | topology with single links between nodes.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:** Eth-IPv6 for IPv6 routing.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[Cfg] DUT configuration:** DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with IPv6 \
+| ... | routing and 2x500k static IPv6 /64 route entries. DUT1 and DUT2 tested \
+| ... | with ${nic_name}.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[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, 500k flows per \
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv6 header \
+| ... | with IP and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses \
+| ... | of the TG node interfaces. Incrementing of IP.dst (IPv6 destination \
+| ... | address) field is applied to both streams.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:** RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so | perfmon_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L3
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${rts_per_flow}= | ${500000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-stl-ethip6-ip6dst${rts_per_flow}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | - **[Cfg]** DUT runs IPv6 routing config. \
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | - **[Ver]** Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - 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] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| |
+| | Given Set Max Rate And Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv6 forwarding with scaling in circular topology
+| | ... | ${rts_per_flow}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 78B-1c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 78B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${78} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 78B-2c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 78B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${78} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 78B-4c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 78B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${78} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip6/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip6/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr.robot
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index 0000000000..7af18ae05f
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+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip6/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2023 Intel and/or its affiliates.
+# Copyright (c) 2023 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/shared/default.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP6FWD | SCALE | FIB_1M | DRV_VFIO_PCI
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip6-ip6scale1m
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv6 routing test cases**
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[Top] Network Topologies:** TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology \
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:** Eth-IPv6 for IPv6 routing.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[Cfg] DUT configuration:** DUT1 is configured with IPv6 routing \
+| ... | 2x500k static IPv6 /64 route entries. DUT1 is tested with ${nic_name}.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[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, 500k flows per \
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv6 header \
+| ... | with IP and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses \
+| ... | of the TG node interfaces. Incrementing of IP.dst (IPv6 destination \
+| ... | address) field is applied to both streams.
+| ... |
+| ... | - **[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:** RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so | perfmon_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L3
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${rts_per_flow}= | ${500000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-stl-ethip6-ip6dst${rts_per_flow}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | - **[Cfg]** DUT runs IPv6 routing config. \
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | - **[Ver]** Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - 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] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| |
+| | Given Set Max Rate And Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv6 forwarding with scaling in circular topology
+| | ... | ${rts_per_flow}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 78B-1c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 78B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${78} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 78B-2c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 78B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${78} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 78B-4c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 78B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${78} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip6-ip6scale1m-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}