Multicore VPP setup for performance testing

- add multithread TAGS documentation
- add methods to VppConfigGenerator for RSS configuration
- create KW for multithread setup
- create sample test case using multithread vpp setup
- add Documentation into TCs

Change-Id: Id40862490d49380dc76d1d3ce39314603f983fd3
Signed-off-by: pmikus <pmikus@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 71 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/tests/suites/performance/short_ipv4.robot b/tests/suites/performance/short_ipv4.robot
index 95e135147e..f96623beb6 100644
--- a/tests/suites/performance/short_ipv4.robot
+++ b/tests/suites/performance/short_ipv4.robot
@@ -21,26 +21,87 @@
 | Suite Setup | 3-node Performance Suite Setup | L3
 | Suite Teardown | 3-node Performance Suite Teardown
 | Test Setup | Setup all DUTs before test
-| Test Teardown  | Run Keyword If Test Failed | Show statistics on all DUTs
+| Test Teardown | Run Keywords | Show statistics on all DUTs
+| ...           | AND          | Reset startup configuration of VPP on all DUTs
+| Documentation | Minimal throughput acceptance test cases
 
 *** Test Cases ***
-| 1core VPP passes 64B frames through IPv4 forwarding at 3.5mpps in 3-node topology
+| 1core VPP passes 64B frames through IPv4 forwarding at 2x 3.5mpps in 3-node topology
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | VPP with 1 core should pass 64B frames through IPv4 forwarding
+| | ... | at 2x3.5mpps in 3-node topology
+| | [Tags] | 1_THREAD_NOHTT_RSS_1 | SINGLE_THREAD
+| | # Variables
 | | ${framesize}= | Set Variable | 64
 | | ${duration}= | Set Variable | 10
 | | ${rate}= | Set Variable | 3.5mpps
-| | Given IPv4 forwarding initialized in a 3-node circular topology
-| | Then Traffic should pass with no loss | ${duration} | ${rate} | ${framesize} | 3-node-IPv4
+| | # VPP setup
+| | Given Setup '1' worker threads and rss '1' without HTT on all DUTs
+| | AND   IPv4 forwarding initialized in a 3-node circular topology
+| | # Sent traffic with specified rate
+| | Then Traffic should pass with no loss | ${duration} | ${rate}
+| | ...                                   | ${framesize} | 3-node-IPv4
 
-| 1core VPP passes 1518B frames through IPv4 forwarding at 10gbps in 3-node topology
+| 1core VPP passes 1518B frames through IPv4 forwarding at 2x 10gbps in 3-node topology
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | VPP with 1 core should pass 1518B frames through IPv4 forwarding
+| | ... | at 2x10gbps in 3-node topology
+| | [Tags] | 1_THREAD_NOHTT_RSS_1 | SINGLE_THREAD
+| | # Variables
 | | ${framesize}= | Set Variable | 1518
 | | ${duration}= | Set Variable | 10
 | | ${rate}= | Set Variable | 10gbps
-| | Given IPv4 forwarding initialized in a 3-node circular topology
-| | Then Traffic should pass with no loss | ${duration} | ${rate} | ${framesize} | 3-node-IPv4
+| | # VPP setup
+| | Given Setup '1' worker threads and rss '1' without HTT on all DUTs
+| | AND   IPv4 forwarding initialized in a 3-node circular topology
+| | # Sent traffic with specified rate
+| | Then Traffic should pass with no loss | ${duration} | ${rate}
+| | ...                                   | ${framesize} | 3-node-IPv4
 
-| 1core VPP passes 9000B frames through IPv4 forwarding at 10gbps in 3-node topology
+| 1core VPP passes 9000B frames through IPv4 forwarding at 2x 10gbps in 3-node topology
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | VPP with 1 core should pass 9000B frames through IPv4 forwarding
+| | ... | at 2x10gbps in 3-node topology
+| | [Tags] | 1_THREAD_NOHTT_RSS_1 | SINGLE_THREAD
+| | # Variables
 | | ${framesize}= | Set Variable | 9000
 | | ${duration}= | Set Variable | 10
 | | ${rate}= | Set Variable | 10gbps
-| | Given IPv4 forwarding initialized in a 3-node circular topology
-| | Then Traffic should pass with no loss | ${duration} | ${rate} | ${framesize} | 3-node-IPv4
+| | # VPP setup
+| | Given Setup '1' worker threads and rss '1' without HTT on all DUTs
+| | AND   IPv4 forwarding initialized in a 3-node circular topology
+| | # Sent traffic with specified rate
+| | Then Traffic should pass with no loss | ${duration} | ${rate}
+| | ...                                   | ${framesize} | 3-node-IPv4
+
+| 2core VPP with rss 1 passes 64B frames through IPv4 forwarding at 2x 8.2mpps in 3-node topology
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | VPP with 2 cores should pass 64B frames through IPv4 forwarding
+| | ... | at 2x8.2mpps in 3-node topology
+| | [Tags] | 2_THREAD_NOHTT_RSS_1 | MULTI_THREAD
+| | # Variables
+| | ${framesize}= | Set Variable | 64
+| | ${duration}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | ${rate}= | Set Variable | 8.2mpps
+| | # VPP setup
+| | Given Setup '2' worker threads and rss '1' without HTT on all DUTs
+| | AND   IPv4 forwarding initialized in a 3-node circular topology
+| | # Sent traffic with specified rate
+| | Then Traffic should pass with no loss | ${duration} | ${rate}
+| | ...                                   | ${framesize} | 3-node-IPv4
+
+| 4core VPP with rss 2 passes 64B frames through IPv4 forwarding at 2x 9.2mpps in 3-node topology
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | VPP with 4 cores and rss 2 should pass 64B frames through IPv4
+| | ... | forwarding at 2x9.2mpps in 3-node topology
+| | [Tags] | 4_THREAD_NOHTT_RSS_2 | MULTI_THREAD
+| | # Variables
+| | ${framesize}= | Set Variable | 64
+| | ${duration}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | ${rate}= | Set Variable | 9.2mpps
+| | # VPP setup
+| | Given Setup '2' worker threads and rss '1' without HTT on all DUTs
+| | AND   IPv4 forwarding initialized in a 3-node circular topology
+| | # Sent traffic with specified rate
+| | Then Traffic should pass with no loss | ${duration} | ${rate}
+| | ...                                   | ${framesize} | 3-node-IPv4