CSIT-1197: Add Comparison Across Testbeds to the Report

Change-Id: Ibf0c880926b87e781830d7b39438b5145144ef5b
Signed-off-by: Tibor Frank <tifrank@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 94 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/report/dpdk_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst b/docs/report/dpdk_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst
index 214eb4c4e7..363c2e70f1 100644
--- a/docs/report/dpdk_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst
+++ b/docs/report/dpdk_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,100 @@ Changes in |csit-release|
 
 No code changes apart from bug fixes.
 
+Performance Changes
+-------------------
+
+Relative performance changes in measured packet throughput in |csit-release|
+are calculated against the results from |csit-release-1|
+report. Listed mean and standard deviation values are computed based on
+a series of the same tests executed against respective VPP releases to
+verify test results repeatability, with percentage change calculated for
+mean values. Note that the standard deviation is quite high for a small
+number of packet throughput tests, what indicates poor test results
+repeatability and makes the relative change of mean throughput value not
+fully representative for these tests. The root causes behind poor
+results repeatability vary between the test cases.
+
+NDR Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+NDR throughput changes between releases are available in a
+CSV and pretty ASCII formats:
+
+  - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/dpdk/performance-changes-1t1c-ndr.csv>`_,
+  - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/dpdk/performance-changes-2t2c-ndr.csv>`_,
+  - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/dpdk/performance-changes-1t1c-ndr.txt>`_,
+  - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/dpdk/performance-changes-2t2c-ndr.txt>`_.
+
+.. note::
+
+    Test results have been generated by
+    `FD.io test executor dpdk performance job 3n-hsw`_
+    with Robot Framework result
+    files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip
+    `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_.
+
+PDR Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+PDR throughput changes between releases are available in a
+CSV and pretty ASCII formats:
+
+  - `csv format for 1t1c <../_static/dpdk/performance-changes-1t1c-pdr.csv>`_,
+  - `csv format for 2t2c <../_static/dpdk/performance-changes-2t2c-pdr.csv>`_,
+  - `pretty ASCII format for 1t1c <../_static/dpdk/performance-changes-1t1c-pdr.txt>`_,
+  - `pretty ASCII format for 2t2c <../_static/dpdk/performance-changes-2t2c-pdr.txt>`_.
+
+.. note::
+
+    Test results have been generated by
+    `FD.io test executor dpdk performance job 3n-hsw`_
+    with Robot Framework result
+    files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip
+    `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_.
+
+Comparison Across Testbeds
+--------------------------
+
+Relative performance changes in measured packet throughputon 3-Node Skx testbed
+are calculated against the results measured on 3-Node Hsw testbed.
+
+NDR Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+NDR changes between testbeds are available in a
+CSV and pretty ASCII formats:
+
+  - `csv format for ndr <../_static/dpdk/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-ndr.csv>`_,
+  - `pretty ASCII format for ndr <../_static/dpdk/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-ndr.txt>`_.
+
+.. note::
+
+    Test results have been generated by
+    `FD.io test executor dpdk performance job 3n-hsw`_ and
+    `FD.io test executor dpdk performance job 3n-skx`_
+    with Robot Framework result
+    files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip
+    `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_.
+
+PDR Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+PDR throughput changes between testbeds are available in a
+CSV and pretty ASCII formats:
+
+  - `csv format for pdr <../_static/dpdk/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-pdr.csv>`_,
+  - `pretty ASCII format for pdr <../_static/dpdk/performance-compare-testbeds-3n-hsw-3n-skx-pdr.txt>`_.
+
+.. note::
+
+    Test results have been generated by
+    `FD.io test executor dpdk performance job 3n-hsw`_ and
+    `FD.io test executor dpdk performance job 3n-skx`_
+    with Robot Framework result
+    files csit-vpp-perf-|srelease|-\*.zip
+    `archived here <../_static/archive/>`_.
+
 Known Issues
 ------------