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authorVratko Polak <vrpolak@cisco.com>2020-10-27 19:09:44 +0100
committerVratko Polak <vrpolak@cisco.com>2020-10-29 20:25:50 +0000
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Support existing test types with ASTF
+ Add UDP_CPS, TCP_CPS, UDP_PPS and TCP_PPS suites. + Update existing cps traffic profiles. + Add missing traffic profiles. + UDP: + Single burst of 32 packets was confirmed as safe enough for TRex. + Maybe 64 could work, but not enough testing for that. + Multiple bursts have lead to reduced TRex performance, as overlaping bursts (from different client instances) tend to fill up the buffers. + TCP: + Data size set to 11111 bytes, completely arbitrarily. + Results look reasonable, so I have kept that. - MSS not set at all - No tested support for frame size other than 64B. - Frame size does not even factor into TCP profiles. + So other frame sizes are skipped in autogen. + Update tags in related suites. - HOSTS_{n} and SRC_USER_{n} should be unified. - Questionable clarification on difference between IP4BASE and SCALE. + Add NAT state resetters to tests that need them. + Resetter is called (if set) before each measurement. + If ramp-up is detected, resetter is not set. + Rename "mult" argument to "multiplier". + Abstracted from packets to transactions. + Transaction corresponds to profile. + TRex multiplier argument sets target rate in transactions per second. + The familiar STL traffic: + Bidirectional is considered to be 2 packets per transaction. + Unidirectional is considered to be 1 packet per transaction. + The newer ASTF traffic: + 4 subtypes, each has different number of packets per transaction. + For max rate computation: + Packets in the more numerous direction are considered. + Rely on TRex reported traffic duration for ASTF: + Use the server side value. - Client side value is higher by an overhead. - TRex is not sending traffic during that time. + Remove delays from traffic profiles. - Those delays would increase the reprted traffic time. + Support for scale lmited trials. + Only for ASTF profiles, each ASTF profile has limited scale. + Scale defined in suite variables. + For TRex to send all transactions provided duration value is ignored. + The appropriate value is computed in TrafficGenerator. + An ad-hoc time constant is added to match the TRex client side time overhead. + The profile driver receives the computed duration. + Measurement for PLRsearch add a sleep if the computed duration is smaller. + Alternative argument for search algos if scale is limited. + Both need higher timeout to accomodate big scales. + MLRsearch can afford fewer phases. + Added a parameter to optionally shorten the duration. + Use short duration for runtime stats trial and failure stats trial. + Use very large keepalive values in udp profiles to avoid ka packets. + No polling in ASTF profile driver. - Polling could eliminate the time overhead value. + But polling proved to introduce some loss, affecting the results. + Handle duration stretching in ASTF by stopping traffic. + The stop has several steps so that: + The traffic is really stopped entirely. + Late packets do not count (maybe as errors). + Stats are preserved to read for results (and cleared afterwards). + Several quantities added to ReceiveRateMeasurement: + Original target duration is preserved (algos need that). + Input estimate (tps) for early search iterations. + Output estimate (maybe pps) for MRR output. + Strict result (unsent counts as loss) for NDR. + Use L2 counters (opackets, ipackets) where possible. - TRex has trouble processing packets for the L7 ones at high loads. + Remove warmup from profile drivers and keywords. + Suites should call "Send ramp-up traffic" explicitly if needed. + Added parsing for few more counters. + Both to use in formulas or just for debug purposes. - Only 64B cases in autogen, framesize support to be added later. + Latency streams during search can be enabled via PERF_USE_LATENCY env var. + MLRsearch improvments: + Rename argument names to min_rate and max_rate. + Use relative receive rate in initial phase. + PLRsearch improvements: + Careful computation when output (pps) does not match input (tps). + Use geometric distribution (instead of Poisson). + Helps agains math errors. + This should improve estimate stability. - But in practice big losses still lead to significant jumps. + Traffic generator improvements: + send_traffic_on_tg now calls the full set_rate_provider_defaults. + _send_traffic_on_tg_internal for the logic without provider defaults. + As the internal function is re-used by measure() without affecting defaults. + Move _parse_traffic_results just before get_measurement_result. + As the latter uses fields set bu the former, it is now easier to read. + Multiple sources for approximate duration. + Tried from more precise to more available. + Includes logic for _pps tests (added in later change). + Move explicit type conversions to earlier occurences. + Profile driver output field uses semicolons to simplify parsing. + Performance Robot lib file split to several smaller ones. + performance_actions.robot: + Hosts Additional Statistics Action For * keywords. + performance_display.robot: + Hosts keyword for displaying and verifying results. + Change test message to use the correct unit (pps or cps). + performance_limits.robot renamed to performance_vars.robot + Added many keywords, mostly for accessing test variables. + Moved variables for Policer into a new keyword there. + Some keywords need sophisticated logic. - Other are basically Get Variable Value. + But in future more logic can be added, without editing callers. + Documentation for the new keywords acts as a documentation for test variables. + performance_utils.robot has the rest. + Eliminated arguments if the value is in test variable. + Small improvements to documentation. - Still not enough cleanup with respect to arguments and test variables. + Keywords are sorted alphabetically now in each one. + Suites: + Unified variables table: + No colons in comments. + ${n_hosts}, ${n_ports} and use them instead hardcoded numbers. + Add -cps to existing cps suite names. + Remove "trial data overwrite". + Compute max rate as in STL suites. + Each NAT suite has ip4base suite to compare results to. - Those act as indirect TRex calibration. - VPP does not lose packets in those. + Latency in ASTF suites is disabled hard. - As we do not support latency in ASTF profiles yet. + Unidirectional tests governed by suite variable, not an argument. + Write long argument lists vertically. + Prefer to use argument names. + In Python, also the last argument is followed by comma. + It makes renaming and reordering easier. + Similarly applies to prints with long lists of values. + A TODO to update api crc file comments. Change-Id: I84729355edbec051298a9de1162107f88ff5737d Signed-off-by: Vratko Polak <vrpolak@cisco.com>
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+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | IP4BASE | TCP | TCP_PPS | DRV_VFIO_PCI
+| ... | SCALE | HOSTS_262144 | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-pps
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| # TODO CSIT-1765: Unify suite Documentation.
+| Documentation | *PPS on lightweight TCP transactions with IPv4 routing*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4\
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. DUT1 tested with\
+| ... | ${nic_name}.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contains client and server ASTF programs, generating packets containing\
+| ... | Ethernet header, IPv4 header, TCP header and static payload.\
+| ... | MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# Scale settings
+| ${n_hosts}= | ${262144}
+| ${n_ports}= | ${63}
+| ${packets_per_transaction_and_direction}= | ${11}
+| ${transaction_scale}= | ${${n_hosts} * ${n_ports}}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-${n_hosts}h-pps
+| ${transaction_type}= | tcp_pps
+| ${disable_latency}= | ${True}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.\
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Max Rate And Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding in circular topology
+| | ... | 172.16.0.0 | 20.16.0.0 | ${14}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-pps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-pps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-pps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}