Add vhost and memif MRR suite

Change-Id: Iaded13af82383955c2ff093ddc96e09682d95776
Signed-off-by: Peter Mikus <pmikus@cisco.com>

21 files changed, 3900 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot b/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
index 51e117ba9e..1271f43a6c 100644
--- a/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+++ b/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
@@ -636,6 +636,33 @@
 | | Run keyword unless | ${dut2_node}==${None}
 | | ... | Tear down guest VM with dpdk-testpmd | ${dut2} | ${dut2_vm_refs}
 
+| Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| | [Documentation] | Common test teardown for performance mrr tests which \
+| | ... | use vhost(s) and VM(s) with dpdk-testpmd.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - dut1_node - Node where to clean qemu. Type: dictionary
+| | ... | - dut1_vm_refs - VM references on node. Type: dictionary
+| | ... | - dut2_node - Node where to clean qemu. Type: dictionary
+| | ... | - dut2_vm_refs - VM references on node. Type: dictionary
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Example:*
+| | ...
+| | ... | \| Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with \
+| | ... | dpdk-testpmd \| ${node['DUT1']} \| ${dut_vm_refs} \| ${node['DUT2']} \
+| | ... | \| ${dut_vm_refs} \|
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${dut1_node}=${None} | ${dut1_vm_refs}=${None}
+| | ... | ${dut2_node}=${None} | ${dut2_vm_refs}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Remove All Added Ports On All DUTs From Topology | ${nodes}
+| | Show VAT History On All DUTs | ${nodes}
+| | Show VPP vhost on all DUTs | ${nodes}
+| | Run keyword unless | ${dut1_node}==${None}
+| | ... | Tear down guest VM with dpdk-testpmd | ${dut1} | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Run keyword unless | ${dut2_node}==${None}
+| | ... | Tear down guest VM with dpdk-testpmd | ${dut2} | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+
 | Tear down DPDK 3-node performance topology
 | | [Documentation]
 | | ... | Suite teardown phase with traffic generator teardown.
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d3aefb6fae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+# 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 | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | LXC
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | 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 | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Documentation |  *Raw results L2BD test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with two L2
+| ... | bridge domains and MAC learning enabled. LXC is connected to VPP via
+| ... | Memif interface. LXC is running same VPP version as running on DUT. LXC
+| ... | is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores allocated from pool of isolated
+| ... | CPUs. There are no memory constraints. DUT1 and DUT2 tested with
+| ... | 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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}= | LXC
+| ${container_image}= | ${EMPTY}
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${3}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with ${wt} thread(s), ${wt}\
+| | ... | phy core(s), ${rxq} receive queue(s) per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for '1' memif pairs in 3-node circular topology
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 64B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for IMIX_v4_1 frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ... | IMIX_v4_1 = (28x64B;16x570B;4x1518B)
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 1518B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 thread, 2 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 64B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 thread, 2 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate forIMIX_v4_1 frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ... | IMIX_v4_1 = (28x64B;16x570B;4x1518B)
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 1518B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c5062424a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+# 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 | L2XCFWD | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | 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 | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Documentation |  *Raw results L2XC test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 cross connect.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. DUT1 and DUT2 tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic by Intel.
+| ... | 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 3 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[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
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${3}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with ${wt} thread(s), ${wt}\
+| | ... | phy core(s), ${rxq} receive queue(s) per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize L2 xconnect for '1' memif pairs in 3-node circular topology
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 64B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for IMIX_v4_1 frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ... | IMIX_v4_1 = (28x64B;16x570B;4x1518B)
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 1518B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 thread, 2 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 64B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 thread, 2 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate forIMIX_v4_1 frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ... | IMIX_v4_1 = (28x64B;16x570B;4x1518B)
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 1518B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4b347b478d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+# 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 | L2XCFWD | BASE | MEMIF | LXC
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | 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 | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Documentation |  *Raw results L2XC test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 cross connect.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. DUT1 and DUT2 tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic by Intel.
+| ... | LXC is connected to VPP via Memif interface. LXC is running same VPP
+| ... | version as running on DUT. LXC is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores
+| ... | allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory contraints.
+| ... | *[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}= | LXC
+| ${container_image}= | ${EMPTY}
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${3}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with ${wt} thread(s), ${wt}\
+| | ... | phy core(s), ${rxq} receive queue(s) per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize L2 xconnect for '1' memif pairs in 3-node circular topology
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 64B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for IMIX_v4_1 frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ... | IMIX_v4_1 = (28x64B;16x570B;4x1518B)
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 1518B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 thread, 2 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 64B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 thread, 2 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate forIMIX_v4_1 frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ... | IMIX_v4_1 = (28x64B;16x570B;4x1518B)
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 1518B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a167ae4e9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+# 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 | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | LXC
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | 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 | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Documentation |  *Raw results L2BD test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with two L2
+| ... | bridge domains and MAC learning enabled. LXC is connected to VPP via
+| ... | Memif interface. LXC is running same VPP version as running on DUT. LXC
+| ... | is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores allocated from pool of isolated
+| ... | CPUs. There are no memory constraints. DUT1 and DUT2 tested with
+| ... | 2p40GE NIC XL710 Niantic 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}= | LXC
+| ${container_image}= | ${EMPTY}
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${3}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with ${wt} thread(s), ${wt}\
+| | ... | phy core(s), ${rxq} receive queue(s) per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_24.5G} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Set Variable If
+| | ... | ${max_rate} > ${s_18.75Mpps} | ${s_18.75Mpps} | ${max_rate}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for '1' memif pairs in 3-node circular topology
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 64B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for IMIX_v4_1 frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ... | IMIX_v4_1 = (28x64B;16x570B;4x1518B)
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 1518B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 thread, 2 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 64B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 thread, 2 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate forIMIX_v4_1 frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ... | IMIX_v4_1 = (28x64B;16x570B;4x1518B)
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 1518B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e0964741b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+# 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 | L2XCFWD | BASE | MEMIF | LXC
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | 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 | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Documentation |  *Raw results L2XC test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 cross connect.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. DUT1 and DUT2 tested with 2p40GE NIC XL710 by Intel.
+| ... | LXC is connected to VPP via Memif interface. LXC is running same VPP
+| ... | version as running on DUT. LXC is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores
+| ... | allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory contraints.
+| ... | *[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}= | LXC
+| ${container_image}= | ${EMPTY}
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${3}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with ${wt} thread(s), ${wt}\
+| | ... | phy core(s), ${rxq} receive queue(s) per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_24.5G} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Set Variable If
+| | ... | ${max_rate} > ${s_18.75Mpps} | ${s_18.75Mpps} | ${max_rate}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Initialize L2 xconnect for '1' memif pairs in 3-node circular topology
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 64B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for IMIX_v4_1 frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ... | IMIX_v4_1 = (28x64B;16x570B;4x1518B)
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 1518B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 thread, 2 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 64B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 thread, 2 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate forIMIX_v4_1 frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ... | IMIX_v4_1 = (28x64B;16x570B;4x1518B)
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for 1518B frames using single trial\
+| | ... | throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | [Template] | Check RR for l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b3c1eb3d06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | DOT1Q | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 1VM
+| ... | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 bridge-
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus 5-9 and 2048M
+| ... | memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores
+| ... | (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to
+| ... | io, rxd/txd=1024, burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520
+| ... | Niantic 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 ***
+| ${subid}= | 10
+| ${tag_rewrite}= | pop-1
+# Socket names
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id1}
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id2}
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User and VLAN in a 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | ${subid}
+| | ... | ${tag_rewrite}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | DOT1Q | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 cross connect. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus 5-9 and 2048M
+| ... | memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores
+| ... | (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to
+| ... | io, rxd/txd=1024, burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520
+| ... | Niantic 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 ***
+| ${subid}= | 10
+| ${tag_rewrite}= | pop-1
+# Socket names
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-2
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User and VLAN in 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for dot1q-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..97734b128d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 bridge-
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus 5-9 and 2048M
+| ... | memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores
+| ... | (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to
+| ... | io, rxd/txd=1024, burst=64. Scheduler policy is set to SCHED_RR with
+| ... | priority 1 for all Qemu CPUs. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520
+| ... | Niantic 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 ***
+# Socket names
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id1}
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id2}
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User in 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 bridge-
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus 5-9 and 2048M
+| ... | memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores
+| ... | (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to
+| ... | io, rxd/txd=256, burst=64. Scheduler policy is set to SCHED_RR with
+| ... | priority 1 for all Qemu CPUs. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520
+| ... | Niantic 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 ***
+# Socket names
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id1}
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id2}
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${perf_qemu_qsz} | 256
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User in 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..03bb85d6a3
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 bridge-
+| ... | domains and MAC learning enabled. Qemu Guests are connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guests are running DPDK testpmd interconnecting
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus 6-10 and 11-15 and
+| ... | 2048M memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages),
+| ... | 5 cores (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=1024, burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC
+| ... | X520 Niantic 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 ***
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${vm_cpus}= | ${5}
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User for '2' VMs in 3-node circular topology
+| | And Configure '2' guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user in 3-node circular topology
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..93dddfeb96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces
+| ... | using 5 cores pinned to cpus 5-9 and 2048M memory. Testpmd is using
+| ... | socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores (1 main core and 4 cores
+| ... | dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=1024,
+| ... | burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 ***
+# Socket names
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1-1
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-1-2
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User in 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${sock1} | ${sock2}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3db18fd9d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces
+| ... | using 5 cores pinned to cpus 5-9 and 2048M memory. Testpmd is using
+| ... | socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores (1 main core and 4 cores
+| ... | dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256,
+| ... | burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 ***
+# Socket names
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1-1
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-1-2
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${perf_qemu_qsz} | 256
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User in 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${sock1} | ${sock2}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0417b1f65a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connects. Qemu Guests are connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guests are running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces
+| ... | using 5 cores pinned to cpus 6-10 and 11-15 and 2048M memory. Testpmd is
+| ... | using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores (1 main core and 4
+| ... | cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=1024,
+| ... | burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 ***
+#CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${vm_cpus}= | ${5}
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User for '2' in 3-node circular topology
+| | And Configure '2' guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user in 3-node circular topology
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrdisc
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus 5-9
+| ... | and 2048M memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages),
+| ... | 5 cores (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to mac, rxd/txd=1024, burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE
+| ... | NIC X520 Niantic 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, 253 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 ***
+# Socket names
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-2
+# FIB tables
+| ${fib_table_1}= | 100
+| ${fib_table_2}= | 101
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${sock1} | ${sock2}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1 | ${dut1_vif1_mac}
+| | ... | ${dut1_vif2_mac}
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1 | ${dut2_vif1_mac}
+| | ... | ${dut2_vif2_mac}
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bc8dbca328
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+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus 5-9
+| ... | and 2048M memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages),
+| ... | 5 cores (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to mac, rxd/txd=256, burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE
+| ... | NIC X520 Niantic 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, 253 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 ***
+# Socket names
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1-1
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-1-2
+# FIB tables
+| ${fib_table_1}= | 100
+| ${fib_table_2}= | 101
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for eth-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${perf_qemu_qsz} | 256
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${sock1} | ${sock2}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1 | ${dut1_vif1_mac}
+| | ... | ${dut1_vif2_mac}
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1 | ${dut2_vif1_mac}
+| | ... | ${dut2_vif2_mac}
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IP4 routing config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IP4 routing config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IP4 routing config with 1 thread, 1 phy core,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IP4 routing config with 2 threads, 2 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IP4 routing config with 2 threads, 2 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IP4 routing config with 2 threads, 2 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IP4 routing config with 4 threads, 4 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IP4 routing config with 4 threads, 4 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IP4 routing config with 4 threads, 4 phy cores,\
+| | ... | 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guests are connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guests are running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnectingvhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus 6-10
+| ... | and 11-15 and 2048M memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M
+| ... | hugepages), 5 cores (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io),
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=1024, burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 are
+| ... | tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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, 253 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 ***
+# Socket names
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-2
+# FIB tables
+| ${fib_table_1}= | 100
+| ${fib_table_2}= | 101
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${vm_cpus}= | ${5}
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost for '2' VMs in 3-node circular topology
+| | And Configure '2' guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user in 3-node circular topology
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/10ge2p1x520-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | L2BDMACLRN | ENCAP | VXLAN | L2OVRLAY | IP4UNRLAY
+| ... | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with VXLANoIPv4
+| ... | and vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | Eth-IPv4-VXLAN-Eth-IPv4 is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 bridge-
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus 5-9 and 2048M
+| ... | memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores
+| ... | (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to
+| ... | io, rxd/txd=1024, burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520
+| ... | Niantic 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.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC7348.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# Socket names
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id1}
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id2}
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+| ${vxlan_overhead} | ${50}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit}
+| | ... | ${get_framesize} + ${vxlan_overhead}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User and VXLANoIPv4 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for ethip4vxlan-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/40ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/40ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XL710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 bridge-
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu Guests are connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guests are running DPDK testpmd interconnecting
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus on NUMA1 and 2048M
+| ... | memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores
+| ... | (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to
+| ... | io, rxd/txd=1024, burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 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, 253 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 ***
+# Socket names
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id1}
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id2}
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit} | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile} | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User in 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
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index 0000000000..5ad857ae23
--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XL710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XL710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 bridge-
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu Guests are connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guests are running DPDK testpmd interconnecting
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus on NUMA1 and 2048M
+| ... | memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores
+| ... | (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to
+| ... | io, rxd/txd=1024, burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 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, 253 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 ***
+# Socket names
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${sock1}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id1}
+| ${sock2}= | /tmp/sock-1-${bd_id2}
+# 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
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_24.5G} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Set Variable If
+| | ... | ${max_rate} > ${s_18.75Mpps} | ${s_18.75Mpps} | ${max_rate}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User in 3-node circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2}
+| | ${vm1}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT1_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut1_vm_refs} | DUT1_VM1 | ${vm1}
+| | ${vm2}= | And Configure guest VM with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | ${dut2} | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | DUT2_VM1
+| | Set To Dictionary | ${dut2_vm_refs} | DUT2_VM1 | ${vm2}
+| | Run Keyword Unless | ${qemu_built} | Set Suite Variable | ${qemu_built}
+| | ... | ${True}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XL710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XL710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ... | dut2_node=${dut2} | dut2_vm_refs=${dut2_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with L2 bridge-
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu Guests are connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guests are running DPDK testpmd interconnecting
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces using 5 cores pinned to cpus on NUMA1 and 2048M
+| ... | memory. Testpmd is using socket-mem=1024M (512x2M hugepages), 5 cores
+| ... | (1 main core and 4 cores dedicated for io), forwarding mode is set to
+| ... | io, rxd/txd=1024, burst=64. DUT1, DUT2 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, 253 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 ***
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${vm_cpus}= | ${5}
+# 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
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with ${wt} thread, ${wt} phy\
+| | ... | core, ${rxq} receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${wt} | ${rxq}
+| | ...
+| | # Test Variables required for test and test teardown
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_24.5G} | ${get_framesize}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Set Variable If
+| | ... | ${max_rate} > ${s_18.75Mpps} | ${s_18.75Mpps} | ${max_rate}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | ${dut2_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut2_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522}
+| | ... | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User for '2' VMs in 3-node circular topology
+| | And Configure '2' guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user in 3-node circular topology
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate | ${perf_trial_duration}
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc02-1518B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc03-IMIX-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 1 thread, 1 phy\
+| | ... | core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1T1C | STHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=1 | rxq=1
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc05-1518B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc06-IMIX-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 2 threads, 2 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2T2C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=2 | rxq=1
+
+| tc07-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${64} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc08-1518B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=${1518} | wt=4 | rxq=2
+
+| tc09-IMIX-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config with 4 threads, 4 phy\
+| | ... | cores, 2 receive queues per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize} frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4T4C | MTHREAD
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Check RR for eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | wt=4 | rxq=2