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authorPeter Mikus <pmikus@cisco.com>2019-01-16 07:18:02 +0000
committerPeter Mikus <pmikus@cisco.com>2019-01-28 20:18:18 +0000
commit54fec7b836c162cd901f04ef8066b4e987a9f88a (patch)
tree1665431976480ca09a77f1656c233d380bb5de21
parent81dc66a10a70bb606531523bab6ffe96621cc7d4 (diff)
CSIT-1403 Implement multichain configuration for l2bd with memif/ip4.
Change-Id: Ia87156b2ba826eb0a9a93d756b9765c7373ca6ce Signed-off-by: Peter Mikus <pmikus@cisco.com>
-rw-r--r--resources/libraries/python/ContainerUtils.py100
-rw-r--r--resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_configuration.robot85
-rw-r--r--resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot35
-rw-r--r--resources/libraries/robot/shared/container.robot66
-rw-r--r--resources/templates/vat/memif_create_chain_ip4.vat15
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93 files changed, 5671 insertions, 164 deletions
diff --git a/resources/libraries/python/ContainerUtils.py b/resources/libraries/python/ContainerUtils.py
index 11bb964665..4feeb8bea2 100644
--- a/resources/libraries/python/ContainerUtils.py
+++ b/resources/libraries/python/ContainerUtils.py
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ class ContainerManager(object):
self.engine.container = self.containers[container]
# We need to install supervisor client/server system to control VPP
# as a service
+ self.engine.execute('apt-get update')
self.engine.install_supervisor()
self.engine.install_vpp()
self.engine.restart_vpp()
@@ -169,42 +170,29 @@ class ContainerManager(object):
container_vat_template = 'memif_create_{topology}.vat'.format(
topology=chain_topology)
- if chain_topology == 'chain':
- for i, container in enumerate(self.containers):
- mid1 = i % mod + 1
- mid2 = i % mod + 1
- sid1 = i % mod * 2 + 1
- sid2 = i % mod * 2 + 2
- self.engine.container = self.containers[container]
+ for i, container in enumerate(self.containers):
+ mid1 = i % mod + 1
+ mid2 = i % mod + 1
+ sid1 = i % mod * 2 + 1
+ sid2 = i % mod * 2 + 2
+ self.engine.container = self.containers[container]
+ guest_dir = self.engine.container.mnt[0].split(':')[1]
+
+ if chain_topology == 'chain':
self.engine.create_vpp_startup_config()
- c_name = self.engine.container.name
- guest_dir = self.engine.container.mnt[0].split(':')[1]
self.engine.create_vpp_exec_config(
container_vat_template,
mid1=mid1, mid2=mid2, sid1=sid1, sid2=sid2,
- socket1='{dir}/memif-{c_name}-{sid}'.
- format(c_name=c_name, sid=sid1, dir=guest_dir),
- socket2='{dir}/memif-{c_name}-{sid}'.
- format(c_name=c_name, sid=sid2, dir=guest_dir))
- elif chain_topology == 'cross_horiz':
- if mod > 1:
- raise RuntimeError('Container chain topology {topology} '
- 'supports only single container.'.
- format(topology=chain_topology))
- for i, container in enumerate(self.containers):
- mid1 = i % mod + 1
- sid1 = i % mod * 2 + 1
+ socket1='{dir}/memif-{c.name}-{sid}'.
+ format(c=self.engine.container, sid=sid1, dir=guest_dir),
+ socket2='{dir}/memif-{c.name}-{sid}'.
+ format(c=self.engine.container, sid=sid2, dir=guest_dir))
+ elif chain_topology == 'cross_horiz':
try:
dut1_if = kwargs['dut1_if']
- except KeyError:
- raise AttributeError('Missing dut1_if parameter.')
- try:
dut2_if = kwargs['dut2_if']
except KeyError:
- raise AttributeError('Missing dut2_if parameter.')
- self.engine.container = self.containers[container]
- c_name = self.engine.container.name
- guest_dir = self.engine.container.mnt[0].split(':')[1]
+ raise AttributeError('DUT interfaces not specified!')
if 'DUT1' in self.engine.container.name:
if_pci = Topology.get_interface_pci_addr(
self.engine.container.node, dut1_if)
@@ -219,30 +207,41 @@ class ContainerManager(object):
self.engine.create_vpp_exec_config(
container_vat_template,
mid1=mid1, sid1=sid1, if_name=if_name,
- socket1='{dir}/memif-{c_name}-{sid}'.
- format(c_name=c_name, sid=sid1, dir=guest_dir))
- elif chain_topology == 'chain_functional':
- for i, container in enumerate(self.containers):
- mid1 = i % mod + 1
- mid2 = i % mod + 1
- sid1 = i % mod * 2 + 1
- sid2 = i % mod * 2 + 2
+ socket1='{dir}/memif-{c.name}-{sid}'.
+ format(c=self.engine.container, sid=sid1, dir=guest_dir))
+ elif chain_topology == 'chain_functional':
memif_rx_mode = 'interrupt'
- self.engine.container = self.containers[container]
self.engine.create_vpp_startup_config_func_dev()
- c_name = self.engine.container.name
- guest_dir = self.engine.container.mnt[0].split(':')[1]
self.engine.create_vpp_exec_config(
container_vat_template,
mid1=mid1, mid2=mid2, sid1=sid1, sid2=sid2,
- socket1='{dir}/memif-{c_name}-{sid}'.
- format(c_name=c_name, sid=sid1, dir=guest_dir),
- socket2='{dir}/memif-{c_name}-{sid}'.
- format(c_name=c_name, sid=sid2, dir=guest_dir),
+ socket1='{dir}/memif-{c.name}-{sid}'.
+ format(c=self.engine.container, sid=sid1, dir=guest_dir),
+ socket2='{dir}/memif-{c.name}-{sid}'.
+ format(c=self.engine.container, sid=sid2, dir=guest_dir),
rx_mode=memif_rx_mode)
- else:
- raise RuntimeError('Container topology {topology} not implemented'.
- format(topology=chain_topology))
+ elif chain_topology == 'chain_ip4':
+ self.engine.create_vpp_startup_config()
+ vif1_mac = kwargs['tg_if1_mac'] \
+ if (mid1 - 1) % kwargs['nodes'] + 1 == 1 \
+ else '52:54:00:00:{0:02X}:02'.format(mid1-1)
+ vif2_mac = kwargs['tg_if2_mac'] \
+ if (mid2 - 1) % kwargs['nodes'] + 1 == kwargs['nodes'] \
+ else '52:54:00:00:{0:02X}:01'.format(mid2+1)
+ self.engine.create_vpp_exec_config(
+ container_vat_template,
+ mid1=mid1, mid2=mid2, sid1=sid1, sid2=sid2,
+ socket1='{dir}/memif-{c.name}-{sid}'.
+ format(c=self.engine.container, sid=sid1, dir=guest_dir),
+ socket2='{dir}/memif-{c.name}-{sid}'.
+ format(c=self.engine.container, sid=sid2, dir=guest_dir),
+ mac1='52:54:00:00:{0:02X}:01'.format(mid1),
+ mac2='52:54:00:00:{0:02X}:02'.format(mid2),
+ vif1_mac=vif1_mac, vif2_mac=vif2_mac)
+ else:
+ raise RuntimeError('Container topology {topology} not '
+ 'implemented'.
+ format(topology=chain_topology))
def stop_all_containers(self):
"""Stop all containers."""
@@ -310,10 +309,9 @@ class ContainerEngine(object):
def install_supervisor(self):
"""Install supervisord inside a container."""
- self.execute('sleep 3')
- self.execute('apt-get update')
self.execute('apt-get install -y supervisor')
- self.execute('echo "{config}" > {config_file}'.
+ self.execute('echo "{config}" > {config_file} && '
+ 'supervisord -c {config_file}'.
format(
config='[unix_http_server]\n'
'file = /tmp/supervisor.sock\n\n'
@@ -330,13 +328,10 @@ class ContainerEngine(object):
'loglevel=debug\n'
'nodaemon=false\n\n',
config_file=SUPERVISOR_CONF))
- self.execute('supervisord -c {config_file}'.
- format(config_file=SUPERVISOR_CONF))
def install_vpp(self):
"""Install VPP inside a container."""
self.execute('ln -s /dev/null /etc/sysctl.d/80-vpp.conf')
- self.execute('apt-get update')
# Workaround for install xenial vpp build on bionic ubuntu.
self.execute('apt-get install -y wget')
self.execute('deb=$(mktemp) && wget -O "${deb}" '
@@ -364,7 +359,6 @@ class ContainerEngine(object):
'priority=1',
config_file=SUPERVISOR_CONF))
self.execute('supervisorctl reload')
- self.execute('supervisorctl restart vpp')
def restart_vpp(self):
"""Restart VPP service inside a container."""
diff --git a/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_configuration.robot b/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_configuration.robot
index 2edc11b4e5..5ade4fa037 100644
--- a/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_configuration.robot
+++ b/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_configuration.robot
@@ -991,8 +991,8 @@
| | ${tg1_if2_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${tg} | ${tg_if2}
| | ${dut1_if2_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${dut1} | ${dut1_if2}
| | ${dut2_if1_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${dut2} | ${dut2_if1}
-| | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-DUT1_CNF1
-| | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-DUT2_CNF1
+| | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-DUT1_CNF
+| | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-DUT2_CNF
| | Set up memif interfaces on DUT node | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock1}
| | ... | ${1} | dut1-memif-1-if1 | dut1-memif-1-if2 | ${rxq_count_int}
| | ... | ${rxq_count_int}
@@ -2987,8 +2987,8 @@
| | [Arguments] | ${dut} | ${count}
| | ...
| | :FOR | ${number} | IN RANGE | 1 | ${count}+1
-| | | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF1
-| | | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF1
+| | | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF
+| | | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF
| | | ${prev_index}= | Evaluate | ${number}-1
| | | Set up memif interfaces on DUT node | ${nodes['${dut}']}
| | | ... | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | ${number} | ${dut}-memif-${number}-if1
@@ -3024,39 +3024,41 @@
| Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs on DUT node
| | [Documentation]
| | ... | Create pairs of Memif interfaces on DUT node. Put each Memif interface
-| | ... | to separate L2 bridge domain with one physical or virtual interface
+| | ... | to separate L2 bridge domain with one physical or memif interface
| | ... | to create a chain accross DUT node.
| | ...
| | ... | *Arguments:*
| | ... | - dut - DUT node. Type: dictionary
-| | ... | - count - Number of memif pairs (containers). Type: integer
+| | ... | - nf_chain - NF chain. Type: integer
+| | ... | - nf_nodes - Number of NFs nodes per chain. Type: integer
| | ...
| | ... | *Note:*
| | ... | Socket paths for Memif are defined in following format:
-| | ... | - /tmp/memif-\${dut}_CNF\${number}-\${sid}
+| | ... | - /tmp/memif-\${dut}_CNF\${nf_id}-\${sid}
| | ...
| | ... | *Example:*
| | ...
| | ... | \| Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs on DUT node \
-| | ... | \| ${dut} \| ${1} \|
+| | ... | \| ${dut} \| 1 \| 1 \|
| | ...
-| | [Arguments] | ${dut} | ${count}
+| | [Arguments] | ${dut} | ${nf_chain}=${1} | ${nf_nodes}=${1}
| | ...
-| | ${bd_id2}= | Evaluate | ${count}+1
+| | ${bd_id2}= | Evaluate | ${nf_nodes}+1
| | Add interface to bridge domain | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${${dut}_if1} | ${1}
| | Add interface to bridge domain | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${${dut}_if2}
| | ... | ${bd_id2}
-| | :FOR | ${number} | IN RANGE | 1 | ${count}+1
-| | | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF1
-| | | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF1
+| | :FOR | ${nf_node} | IN RANGE | 1 | ${nf_nodes}+1
+| | | ${nf_id}= | Evaluate | (${nf_chain} - ${1}) * ${nf_nodes} + ${nf_node}
+| | | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF
+| | | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF
| | | Set up memif interfaces on DUT node | ${nodes['${dut}']}
-| | | ... | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | ${number} | ${dut}-memif-${number}-if1
-| | | ... | ${dut}-memif-${number}-if2 | ${rxq_count_int} | ${rxq_count_int}
-| | | ${bd_id2}= | Evaluate | ${number}+1
+| | | ... | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | ${nf_id} | ${dut}-memif-${nf_id}-if1
+| | | ... | ${dut}-memif-${nf_id}-if2 | ${rxq_count_int} | ${rxq_count_int}
+| | | ${bd_id2}= | Evaluate | ${nf_node}+1
| | | Add interface to bridge domain | ${nodes['${dut}']}
-| | | ... | ${${dut}-memif-${number}-if1} | ${number}
+| | | ... | ${${dut}-memif-${nf_id}-if1} | ${nf_node}
| | | Add interface to bridge domain | ${nodes['${dut}']}
-| | | ... | ${${dut}-memif-${number}-if2} | ${bd_id2}
+| | | ... | ${${dut}-memif-${nf_id}-if2} | ${bd_id2}
| Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | [Documentation]
@@ -3065,18 +3067,41 @@
| | ... | virtual interface to create a chain accross DUT node.
| | ...
| | ... | *Arguments:*
-| | ... | - count - Number of memif pairs (containers). Type: integer
+| | ... | - nf_chain - NF chain. Type: integer
+| | ... | - nf_nodes - Number of NFs nodes per chain. Type: integer
| | ...
| | ... | *Example:*
| | ...
-| | ... | \| Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs \| ${1} \|
+| | ... | \| Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs \| 1 \| 1 \|
| | ...
-| | [Arguments] | ${count}=${1}
+| | [Arguments] | ${nf_chain}=${1} | ${nf_nodes}=${1}
| | ...
| | ${duts}= | Get Matches | ${nodes} | DUT*
| | :FOR | ${dut} | IN | @{duts}
| | | Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs on DUT node | ${dut}
-| | | ... | ${count}
+| | | ... | nf_chain=${nf_chain} | nf_nodes=${nf_nodes}
+
+| Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | Create pairs of Memif interfaces for defined number of NF chains
+| | ... | with defined number of NF nodes on all defined VPP nodes. Add each
+| | ... | Memif interface into L2 bridge domains with learning enabled
+| | ... | with physical inteface or Memif interface of another NF.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - nf_chains - Number of chains of NFs. Type: integer
+| | ... | - nf_nodes - Number of NFs nodes per chain. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Example:*
+| | ...
+| | ... | \| Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs \
+| | ... | \| 1 \| 1 \|
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${nf_chains}=${1} | ${nf_nodes}=${1}
+| | ...
+| | :FOR | ${nf_chain} | IN RANGE | 1 | ${nf_chains}+1
+| | | Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs | nf_chain=${nf_chain}
+| | | ... | nf_nodes=${nf_nodes}
| | Set interfaces in path up
| | Show Memif on all DUTs | ${nodes}
@@ -3119,8 +3144,8 @@
| | ... | ${dut1} | ${subif_index_1} | TAG_REWRITE_METHOD=${tag_rewrite}
| | ...
| | ${number}= | Set Variable | ${1}
-| | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-DUT1_CNF1
-| | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-DUT1_CNF1
+| | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-DUT1_CNF
+| | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-DUT1_CNF
| | ${memif_if1_name}= | Set Variable | DUT1-memif-${number}-if1
| | ${memif_if2_name}= | Set Variable | DUT1-memif-${number}-if2
| | Set up memif interfaces on DUT node | ${dut1} | ${sock1} | ${sock2}
@@ -3131,9 +3156,9 @@
| | Add interface to bridge domain | ${dut1} | ${${memif_if2_name}} | ${bd_id2}
| | Add interface to bridge domain | ${dut1} | ${subif_index_1} | ${bd_id2}
| | ${sock1}= | Run Keyword If | '${dut2_status}' == 'PASS'
-| | ... | Set Variable | memif-DUT2_CNF1
+| | ... | Set Variable | memif-DUT2_CNF
| | ${sock2}= | Run Keyword If | '${dut2_status}' == 'PASS'
-| | ... | Set Variable | memif-DUT2_CNF1
+| | ... | Set Variable | memif-DUT2_CNF
| | ${memif_if1_name}= | Run Keyword If | '${dut2_status}' == 'PASS'
| | ... | Set Variable | DUT2-memif-${number}-if1
| | ${memif_if2_name}= | Run Keyword If | '${dut2_status}' == 'PASS'
@@ -3235,8 +3260,8 @@
| | ${fib_table_1}= | Evaluate | ${fib_table_1} - ${1}
| | ${ip_base_start}= | Set Variable | ${31}
| | :FOR | ${number} | IN RANGE | 1 | ${count+${1}}
-| | | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF1
-| | | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF1
+| | | ${sock1}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF
+| | | ${sock2}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF
| | | Set up memif interfaces on DUT node | ${nodes['${dut}']}
| | | ... | ${sock1} | ${sock2} | ${number} | ${dut}-memif-${number}-if1
| | | ... | ${dut}-memif-${number}-if2 | ${rxq_count_int} | ${rxq_count_int}
@@ -3323,7 +3348,7 @@
| | ...
| | ${duts}= | Get Matches | ${nodes} | DUT*
| | :FOR | ${dut} | IN | @{duts}
-| | | ${sock}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF1
+| | | ${sock}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF
| | | Set up single memif interface on DUT node | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${sock}
| | | ... | ${number} | ${dut}-memif-${number}-if1 | ${rxq_count_int}
| | | ... | ${rxq_count_int}
@@ -3355,7 +3380,7 @@
| | ...
| | ${duts}= | Get Matches | ${nodes} | DUT*
| | :FOR | ${dut} | IN | @{duts}
-| | | ${sock}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF1
+| | | ${sock}= | Set Variable | memif-${dut}_CNF
| | | Set up single memif interface on DUT node | ${nodes['${dut}']} | ${sock}
| | | ... | ${number} | ${dut}-memif-${number}-if1 | ${rxq_count_int}
| | | ... | ${rxq_count_int}
diff --git a/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot b/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
index 4078196372..a70742f448 100644
--- a/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+++ b/resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
@@ -36,7 +36,9 @@
| | ... | _NOTE:_ This KW sets following suite variables:
| | ... | - tg - TG node
| | ... | - tg_if1 - 1st TG interface towards DUT.
+| | ... | - tg_if1 - 1st TG interface MAC address.
| | ... | - tg_if2 - 2nd TG interface towards DUT.
+| | ... | - tg_if2 - 2nd TG interface MAC address.
| | ... | - dut1 - DUT1 node
| | ... | - dut1_if1 - 1st DUT interface towards TG.
| | ... | - dut1_if2 - 2nd DUT interface towards TG.
@@ -57,9 +59,13 @@
| | ${dut1_if1} | ${dut1}= | First Ingress Interface
| | ${dut1_if2} | ${dut1}= | Last Egress Interface
| | ${tg_if2} | ${tg}= | Last Interface
+| | ${tg_if1_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${tg} | ${tg_if1}
+| | ${tg_if2_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${tg} | ${tg_if2}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if1}
+| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if1_mac}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if2}
+| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if2_mac}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${dut1}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${dut1_if1}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${dut1_if2}
@@ -75,8 +81,10 @@
| | ...
| | ... | _NOTE:_ This KW sets following suite variables:
| | ... | - tg - TG node
-| | ... | - tg_if1 - TG interface towards DUT1.
-| | ... | - tg_if2 - TG interface towards DUT2.
+| | ... | - tg_if1 - 1st TG interface towards DUT.
+| | ... | - tg_if1 - 1st TG interface MAC address.
+| | ... | - tg_if2 - 2nd TG interface towards DUT.
+| | ... | - tg_if2 - 2nd TG interface MAC address.
| | ... | - dut1 - DUT1 node
| | ... | - dut1_if1 - DUT1 interface towards TG.
| | ... | - dut1_if2 - DUT1 interface towards DUT2.
@@ -103,9 +111,13 @@
| | ${dut2_if1} | ${dut2}= | Next Interface
| | ${dut2_if2} | ${dut2}= | Next Interface
| | ${tg_if2} | ${tg}= | Next Interface
+| | ${tg_if1_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${tg} | ${tg_if1}
+| | ${tg_if2_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${tg} | ${tg_if2}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if1}
+| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if1_mac}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if2}
+| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if2_mac}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${dut1}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${dut1_if1}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${dut1_if2}
@@ -124,8 +136,10 @@
| | ...
| | ... | _NOTE:_ This KW sets following suite variables:
| | ... | - tg - TG node
-| | ... | - tg_if1 - TG interface towards DUT1.
-| | ... | - tg_if2 - TG interface towards DUT2.
+| | ... | - tg_if1 - 1st TG interface towards DUT.
+| | ... | - tg_if1 - 1st TG interface MAC address.
+| | ... | - tg_if2 - 2nd TG interface towards DUT.
+| | ... | - tg_if2 - 2nd TG interface MAC address.
| | ... | - dut1 - DUT1 node
| | ... | - dut1_if1 - DUT1 interface towards TG.
| | ... | - dut1_if2_1 - DUT1 interface 1 towards DUT2.
@@ -168,10 +182,14 @@
| | ${dut1_if2_2} | ${dut1}= | Last Interface
| | ${dut2_if1_1} | ${dut2}= | First Ingress Interface
| | ${dut2_if1_2} | ${dut2}= | Last Egress Interface
+| | ${tg_if1_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${tg} | ${tg_if1}
+| | ${tg_if2_mac}= | Get Interface MAC | ${tg} | ${tg_if2}
| | # Set suite variables
| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if1}
+| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if1_mac}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if2}
+| | Set Suite Variable | ${tg_if2_mac}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${dut1}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${dut1_if1}
| | Set Suite Variable | ${dut1_if2_1}
@@ -621,18 +639,23 @@
| | ... | *Arguments:*
| | ... | - chains: Total number of chains. Type: integer
| | ... | - nodeness: Total number of nodes per chain. Type: integer
+| | ... | - auto_scale - If True, use same amount of Dataplane threads for
+| | ... | network function as DUT, otherwise use single physical core for
+| | ... | every network function. Type: boolean
| | ...
| | ... | *Example:*
| | ...
| | ... | \| Set up performance test with containers \| 1 \| 1 \|
| | ...
-| | [Arguments] | ${chains}=${1} | ${nodeness}=${1}
+| | [Arguments] | ${nf_chains}=${1} | ${nf_nodes}=${1} | ${auto_scale}=${True}
| | ...
| | Set Test Variable | @{container_groups} | @{EMPTY}
| | Set Test Variable | ${container_group} | CNF
+| | Set Test Variable | ${nf_nodes}
| | Import Library | resources.libraries.python.ContainerUtils.ContainerManager
| | ... | engine=${container_engine} | WITH NAME | ${container_group}
-| | Construct chains of containers on all DUTs | ${chains} | ${nodeness}
+| | Construct chains of containers on all DUTs | ${nf_chains} | ${nf_nodes}
+| | ... | auto_scale=${auto_scale}
| | Acquire all '${container_group}' containers
| | Create all '${container_group}' containers
| | Configure VPP in all '${container_group}' containers
diff --git a/resources/libraries/robot/shared/container.robot b/resources/libraries/robot/shared/container.robot
index e1aba74ee1..cbfbccc787 100644
--- a/resources/libraries/robot/shared/container.robot
+++ b/resources/libraries/robot/shared/container.robot
@@ -25,12 +25,15 @@
| | [Documentation] | Construct 1 CNF of specific technology on all DUT nodes.
| | ...
| | ... | *Arguments:*
-| | ... | - chains: Total number of chains (Optional). Type: integer, default
+| | ... | - nf_chains: Total number of chains (Optional). Type: integer, default
| | ... | value: ${1}
-| | ... | - nodeness: Total number of nodes per chain (Optional). Type: integer,
+| | ... | - nf_nodes: Total number of nodes per chain (Optional). Type: integer,
| | ... | default value: ${1}
-| | ... | - chain_id: Chain ID (Optional). Type: integer, default value: ${1}
-| | ... | - node_id: Node ID (Optional). Type: integer, default value: ${1}
+| | ... | - nf_chain: Chain ID (Optional). Type: integer, default value: ${1}
+| | ... | - nf_node: Node ID (Optional). Type: integer, default value: ${1}
+| | ... | - auto_scale - If True, use same amount of Dataplane threads for
+| | ... | network function as DUT, otherwise use single physical core for
+| | ... | every network function. Type: boolean
| | ... | - set_nf_cpus: Set False if CPUs allocatation for network function per
| | ... | SUT/DUT not required. Type: boolean, default value: ${True}
| | ...
@@ -38,24 +41,25 @@
| | ...
| | ... | \| Construct container on all DUTs \| 1 \| 1 \| 1 \| 1 \| ${True} \|
| | ...
-| | [Arguments] | ${chains}=${1} | ${nodeness}=${1} | ${chain_id}=${1}
-| | ... | ${node_id}=${1} | ${set_nf_cpus}=${True}
+| | [Arguments] | ${nf_chains}=${1} | ${nf_nodes}=${1} | ${nf_chain}=${1}
+| | ... | ${nf_node}=${1} | ${auto_scale}=${True} | ${set_nf_cpus}=${True}
| | ...
| | ${duts}= | Get Matches | ${nodes} | DUT*
| | :FOR | ${dut} | IN | @{duts}
+| | | ${nf_id}= | Evaluate | (${nf_chain} - ${1}) * ${nf_nodes} + ${nf_node}
| | | ${env}= | Create List | DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
| | | ${tmp}= | Get Variable Value | ${tmp_volume} | /tmp
| | | ${mnt}= | Create List | ${tmp}:/mnt/host | /dev/vfio:/dev/vfio
| | | ${nf_cpus}= | Run Keyword If | ${set_nf_cpus}
| | | ... | Create network function CPU list | ${dut}
-| | | ... | chains=${chains} | nodeness=${nodeness} | chain_id=${chain_id}
-| | | ... | node_id=${node_id} | auto_scale=${True}
+| | | ... | chains=${nf_chains} | nodeness=${nf_nodes} | chain_id=${nf_chain}
+| | | ... | node_id=${nf_node} | auto_scale=${auto_scale}
| | | ... | ELSE | Set Variable | ${None}
| | | ${uuid_str}= | Run Keyword If | '${tmp}' == '/tmp'
| | | ... | Set Variable | ${EMPTY}
| | | ... | ELSE | Remove String | ${tmp} | ${dut}_VOL
| | | &{cont_args}= | Create Dictionary
-| | | ... | name=${dut}_${container_group}${chain_id}${node_id}${uuid_str}
+| | | ... | name=${dut}_${container_group}${nf_id}${uuid_str}
| | | ... | node=${nodes['${dut}']} | mnt=${mnt} | env=${env}
| | | Run Keyword If | ${set_nf_cpus}
| | | ... | Set To Dictionary | ${cont_args} | cpuset_cpus=${nf_cpus}
@@ -65,9 +69,12 @@
| | [Documentation] | Construct 1 chain of 1..N CNFs on all DUT nodes.
| | ...
| | ... | *Arguments:*
-| | ... | - chains: Total number of chains. Type: integer
-| | ... | - nodeness: Total number of nodes per chain. Type: integer
-| | ... | - chain_id: Chain ID. Type: integer
+| | ... | - nf_chains: Total number of chains. Type: integer
+| | ... | - nf_nodes: Total number of nodes per chain. Type: integer
+| | ... | - nf_chain: Chain ID. Type: integer
+| | ... | - auto_scale - If True, use same amount of Dataplane threads for
+| | ... | network function as DUT, otherwise use single physical core for
+| | ... | every network function. Type: boolean
| | ... | - set_nf_cpus: Set False if CPUs allocatation for network function per
| | ... | SUT/DUT not required. Type: boolean, default value: ${True}
| | ...
@@ -76,21 +83,25 @@
| | ... | \| Construct chain of containers on all DUTs \| 1 \| 1 \| 1 \
| | ... | \| ${True} \|
| | ...
-| | [Arguments] | ${chains} | ${nodeness} | ${chain_id} | ${set_nf_cpus}=${True}
+| | [Arguments] | ${nf_chains}=${1} | ${nf_nodes}=${1} | ${nf_chain}=${1}
+| | ... | ${auto_scale}=${True} | ${set_nf_cpus}=${True}
| | ...
-| | :FOR | ${node_id} | IN RANGE | 1 | ${nodeness}+1
-| | | Construct container on all DUTs | chains=${chains} | nodeness=${nodeness}
-| | | ... | chain_id=${chain_id} | node_id=${node_id}
-| | | ... | set_nf_cpus=${set_nf_cpus}
+| | :FOR | ${nf_node} | IN RANGE | 1 | ${nf_nodes}+1
+| | | Construct container on all DUTs | nf_chains=${nf_chains}
+| | | ... | nf_nodes=${nf_nodes} | nf_chain=${nf_chain} | nf_node=${nf_node}
+| | | ... | auto_scale=${auto_scale} | set_nf_cpus=${set_nf_cpus}
| Construct chains of containers on all DUTs
| | [Documentation] | Construct 1..N chains of 1..N CNFs on all DUT nodes.
| | ...
| | ... | *Arguments:*
-| | ... | - chains: Total number of chains (Optional). Type: integer, default
+| | ... | - nf_chains: Total number of chains (Optional). Type: integer, default
| | ... | value: ${1}
-| | ... | - nodeness: Total number of nodes per chain (Optional). Type: integer,
+| | ... | - nf_nodes: Total number of nodes per chain (Optional). Type: integer,
| | ... | default value: ${1}
+| | ... | - auto_scale - If True, use same amount of Dataplane threads for
+| | ... | network function as DUT, otherwise use single physical core for
+| | ... | every network function. Type: boolean
| | ... | - set_nf_cpus: Set False if CPUs allocatation for network function per
| | ... | SUT/DUT not required. Type: boolean, default value: ${True}
| | ...
@@ -98,12 +109,13 @@
| | ...
| | ... | \| Construct chains of containers on all DUTs \| 1 \| 1 \|
| | ...
-| | [Arguments] | ${chains}=${1} | ${nodeness}=${1} | ${set_nf_cpus}=${True}
+| | [Arguments] | ${nf_chains}=${1} | ${nf_nodes}=${1} | ${auto_scale}=${True}
+| | ... | ${set_nf_cpus}=${True}
| | ...
-| | :FOR | ${chain_id} | IN RANGE | 1 | ${chains}+1
-| | | Construct chain of containers on all DUTs | chains=${chains}
-| | | ... | nodeness=${nodeness} | chain_id=${chain_id}
-| | | ... | set_nf_cpus=${set_nf_cpus}
+| | :FOR | ${nf_chain} | IN RANGE | 1 | ${nf_chains}+1
+| | | Construct chain of containers on all DUTs | nf_chains=${nf_chains}
+| | | ... | nf_nodes=${nf_nodes} | nf_chain=${nf_chain}
+| | | ... | auto_scale=${auto_scale} | set_nf_cpus=${set_nf_cpus}
| Acquire all '${group}' containers
| | [Documentation] | Acquire all container(s) in specific container group on
@@ -135,7 +147,11 @@
| | ...
| | ${dut1_if2} = | Get Variable Value | \${dut1_if2} | ${None}
| | ${dut2_if2} = | Get Variable Value | \${dut2_if2} | ${None}
-| | Run Keyword If | '${container_chain_topology}' == 'cross_horiz'
+| | Run Keyword If | '${container_chain_topology}' == 'chain_ip4'
+| | ... | ${group}.Configure VPP In All Containers | ${container_chain_topology}
+| | ... | tg_if1_mac=${tg_if1_mac} | tg_if2_mac=${tg_if2_mac}
+| | ... | nodes=${nf_nodes}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${container_chain_topology}' == 'cross_horiz'
| | ... | ${group}.Configure VPP In All Containers | ${container_chain_topology}
| | ... | dut1_if=${dut1_if2} | dut2_if=${dut2_if2}
| | ... | ELSE
diff --git a/resources/templates/vat/memif_create_chain_ip4.vat b/resources/templates/vat/memif_create_chain_ip4.vat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1c9205a086
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/templates/vat/memif_create_chain_ip4.vat
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+create memif socket id {sid1} filename {socket1}
+create interface memif id {mid1} socket-id {sid1} hw-addr {mac1} master
+set interface ip address memif{sid1}/{mid1} 1.1.{sid1}.1/24
+set interface state memif{sid1}/{mid1} up
+
+create memif socket id {sid2} filename {socket2}
+create interface memif id {mid2} socket-id {sid2} hw-addr {mac2} master
+set interface ip address memif{sid2}/{mid2} 1.1.{sid2}.1/24
+set interface state memif{sid2}/{mid2} up
+
+set ip arp static memif{sid1}/{mid1} 1.1.{sid1}.2 {vif1_mac}
+set ip arp static memif{sid2}/{mid2} 1.1.{sid2}.2 {vif2_mac}
+
+ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 via 1.1.{sid1}.2
+ip route add 20.0.0.0/8 via 1.1.{sid2}.2
diff --git a/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot b/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
index 0131aafab4..ac1251be3e 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
| ${bd_id1}= | 1
| ${bd_id2}= | 2
# Memif
-| ${sock_base}= | memif-DUT1_CNF1
+| ${sock_base}= | memif-DUT1_CNF
# Container
| ${container_engine}= | Docker
| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_functional
diff --git a/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot b/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
index 97b9b00fab..0c4ec0e5f9 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
*** Variables ***
# Memif
-| ${sock_base}= | memif-DUT1_CNF1
+| ${sock_base}= | memif-DUT1_CNF
# Container
| ${container_engine}= | Docker
| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_functional
diff --git a/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot b/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
index e32dd6e04d..c6a287281d 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
| ${prefix_length}= | 24
| ${fib_table_2}= | 20
# Memif
-| ${sock_base}= | memif-DUT1_CNF1
+| ${sock_base}= | memif-DUT1_CNF
# Container
| ${container_engine}= | Docker
| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_functional
diff --git a/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-ethip6-ip6base-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot b/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-ethip6-ip6base-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
index 6cdffd407e..60dd9538d4 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-ethip6-ip6base-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/device/container_memif/eth2p-ethip6-ip6base-eth-2memif-1dcr-dev.robot
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
| ${prefix_length}= | 64
| ${fib_table_2}= | 20
# Memif
-| ${sock_base}= | memif-DUT1_CNF1
+| ${sock_base}= | memif-DUT1_CNF
# Container
| ${container_engine}= | Docker
| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_functional
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index e6635d53ef..185765ec01 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index 52a866364b..e869ad8a82 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
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
index 31c5e776ca..8b11d29316 100644
--- 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
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
index 637cc69dfa..baba879a16 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index 0c7c56acc0..f48b934fd9 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect for single memif
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index 3ac2363d84..836936cb2e 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect for single memif
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
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
index 55720dc084..30f8cdc3fe 100644
--- 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
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index bb40754c8d..9563415eb6 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
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
index 21cce56215..798c2acfa6 100644
--- 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
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
index 6a30d83fc1..d1e5a144d1 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index 43fe73bf8c..4612cd494b 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index 70c035ab47..f78908eb50 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index f477a79933..3e7059a97a 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index 2ebcf59881..0a4b1c5985 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
index e5a5319ab3..2ecae322f6 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
index 2a907982b7..c9b2d2fa18 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index abd9bf6b65..d4726b5586 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect for single memif
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index 4c4fd105f2..2abf63185f 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-1memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect for single memif
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index b70b7eed46..9f5804850e 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index c19a4f4145..6780ff2d7f 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
index 163edf8761..6d0626abe7 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-mrr.robot
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
index 101df3c9f0..8da87ffbcb 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index 5f4a8d46e2..57e9703b44 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index a0f92ff05c..ba1f08dd33 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..465d959dbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R6C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain 6 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c6n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${6} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${6}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f8a667a186
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R6C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain
+| ... | 6 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c6n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${6} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${6}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-1chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f9234843da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 6R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 6 chains 6 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-6c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cce9cb5545
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 6R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 6 chains
+| ... | 6 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-6c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-12memif-6chain-6dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..27dc5c2aff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R8C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain 8 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c8n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${8} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${8}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..246b20f946
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R8C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain
+| ... | 8 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c8n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${8} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${8}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-1chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c202d1251d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 2R4C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains 8 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c4n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${4} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${4}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed32271b0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 2R4C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains
+| ... | 8 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c4n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${4} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${4}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-2chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2dfae41e93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 4R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 4 chains 8 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-4c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..95a0a0d293
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-4chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 4R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 4 chains
+| ... | 8 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-4c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-4chain-8dcrr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d142655b12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 8R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 8 chains 8 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-8c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${8} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${8} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..edf20b0c39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 8R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 8 chains
+| ... | 8 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-8c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${8} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${8} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-16memif-8chain-8dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c44b7baf58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 10R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 10 chains 10 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-10c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${10} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${10} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d5b89ca3fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 10R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 10 chains
+| ... | 10 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-10c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${10} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${10} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-10chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0b8a04b785
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R10C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain 10 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c10n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${10} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${10}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..880c96cd2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R10C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain
+| ... | 10 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c10n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${10} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${10}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-20memif-1chain-10dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b4edab355a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 2R6C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains 12 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c6n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${6} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${6}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eebb0f21b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 2R6C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains
+| ... | 12 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c6n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${6} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${6}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-2chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aa72d70831
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 6R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 6 chains 12 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-6c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..12f1dea31a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 6R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 6 chains
+| ... | 12 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-6c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-24memif-6chain-12dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4987409caf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain 1 docker
+| ... | container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..842c46071f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain
+| ... | 1 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-2memif-1chain-1dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..99b0da8b52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 2R8C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains 16 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c8n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${8} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${8}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..425b488303
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 2R8C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains
+| ... | 16 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c8n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${8} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${8}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-2chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6caf137207
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 4R4C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 4 chains 16 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-4c4n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${4} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${4}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b8893bc1c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 4R4C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 4 chains
+| ... | 16 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-4c4n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${4} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${4}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-4chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e4ad54dab4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 8R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 8 chains 16 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-8c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${8} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${8} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2636808f51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 8R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 8 chains
+| ... | 16 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-8c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${8} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${8} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-32memif-8chain-16dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b36df9e3f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain 2 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain
+| ... | 2 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-1chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6db62c728
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 2R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains 2 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 2R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains
+| ... | 2 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-4memif-2chain-2dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
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index 0000000000..a55ab6f77f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R4C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain 4 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c4n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${4} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${4}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ee0b945d72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 1R4C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 1 chain
+| ... | 4 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-1c4n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${4} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${1} | nf_nodes=${4}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-1chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ac60e0c84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 2R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains 4 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a04e438965
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 2R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains
+| ... | 4 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-2chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..33c93e2bba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 4R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with memif 4 chains 4 docker
+| ... | containers*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 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 ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-4c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b50f2982ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-eth-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER | 4R1C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords
+| ... | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 4 chains
+| ... | 1 docker container*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge domains
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT1 tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 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 cores allocated from pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory
+| ... | contraints.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch librairy.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-4c1n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain_ip4
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${1} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${1}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-8memif-4chain-4dcr-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index 8308d55768..943a978869 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index 9a677aca64..2c2604c5e0 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index 077c8bf67f..67c8c6c6ac 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index aae9ffa964..d92b471d45 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index a359b8f1b6..875e3db607 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index 7fc86b03f7..41eab31b40 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index c7ca9e2599..28c7b8ca6c 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index c9e02054b6..5dacf5b7af 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index c139715828..800ba507ed 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | ... | overhead=${overhead}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index dfdffb7265..01e899926b 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | ... | overhead=${overhead}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index a3794e819c..22f2ec4dbe 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index 0a6bd1e172..a378b606e7 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index 73a27a4cd8..c1de1ebc5a 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index a559142011..b6de887d0c 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index 97cd183da3..ea9bf1023b 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index fe0b6dea83..bf97f73d58 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
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
index 8bcb556859..5a8416d4a8 100644
--- 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
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
index e1274f780c..5edbdb252e 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
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
index 4ce2c68df0..866f3eb1a7 100644
--- 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
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
index aaf4046dd6..427621798e 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2memif-1lxc-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize L2 xconnect with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
index 56465659c4..4ae4af892e 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
index 2cc1f00ac1..496a3cbd6a 100644
--- a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/40ge2p1xl710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
-| | And Set up performance test with containers | chains=${1} | nodeness=${1}
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
| | And Initialize IPv4 routing with memif pairs
| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}