Add new higher density NF tests

Change-Id: Ib2f3f3f8dc3e202dc1db53c739d9309be2ed8a60
Signed-off-by: Peter Mikus <pmikus@cisco.com>

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diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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+# 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 | 10R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4 | 20DCR1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | ${nic_name}
+| ... | 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 test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 10 chains
+| ... | 20 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 ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | 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 library.\
+| ... | 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 ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-10c2n
+# 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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${10} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${10} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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index 0000000000..19b39d35a8
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+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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+# 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 | 2R10C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4 | 20DCR1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | ${nic_name}
+| ... | 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 test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 2 chains
+| ... | 20 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 ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | 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 library.\
+| ... | 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 ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c10n
+# 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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${10} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${10} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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index 0000000000..64e624e1d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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+# 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 | 4R6C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4 | 24DCR1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | ${nic_name}
+| ... | 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 test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 4 chains
+| ... | 24 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 ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | 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 library.\
+| ... | 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 ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-4c6n
+# 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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${6} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${6} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7ab0cb3cfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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+# 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 | 6R4C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | CHAIN | NF_VPPIP4 | 24DCR1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | ${nic_name}
+| ... | 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 test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with memif 6 chains
+| ... | 24 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 ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | 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 library.\
+| ... | 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 ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-6c4n
+# 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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${4} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple chains with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${4} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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+# 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 | 10R2C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | PIPELINE | NF_VPPIP4 | 20DCR1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | ${nic_name}
+| ... | 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 test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with 20 memif 10
+| ... | pipelines 20 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 ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | 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 library.\
+| ... | 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 ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-10c2n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | pipeline_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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${10} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple pipelines with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${10} | nf_nodes=${2} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-10pl-20mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c1dffbd2dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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+# 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 | 2R10C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | PIPELINE | NF_VPPIP4 | 20DCR1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | ${nic_name}
+| ... | 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 test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with 4 memif 2
+| ... | pipelines 20 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 ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | 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 library.\
+| ... | 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 ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c10n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | pipeline_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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${10} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple pipelines with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${10} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-2pl-4mif-20dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..83e6840045
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+# 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 | 4R6C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | PIPELINE | NF_VPPIP4 | 24DCR1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | ${nic_name}
+| ... | 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 test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with 8 memif 4
+| ... | pipelines 24 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 ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | 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 library.\
+| ... | 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 ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-4c6n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | pipeline_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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${6} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple pipelines with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${6} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-4pl-8mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/dcr_memif/pipeline/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+# 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 | 6R4C
+| ... | NF_DENSITY | PIPELINE | NF_VPPIP4 | 24DCR1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L3
+| ... | ${nic_name}
+| ... | 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 test
+| ... | AND | Tear down performance test with container
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | **RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with 12 memif 6
+| ... | pipelines 24 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 ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | 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 library.\
+| ... | 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 ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-6c4n
+# Container
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | pipeline_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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | And Set up performance test with containers
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${4} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | And Initialize L2 Bridge Domain for multiple pipelines with memif pairs
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${4} | auto_scale=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-6pl-12mif-24dcr1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/vm_vhost/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/vm_vhost/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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index 0000000000..87a1cd0e99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/vm_vhost/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+# 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 | VHOST | VM
+| ... | VHOST_1024 | NF_DENSITY | NF_VPPIP4 | CHAIN | 10R2C | 20VM1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | ${nic_name}
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation
+| ... | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with 40 vhost 10 chains 20 VMs*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge-\
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu VNFs are connected to VPP via\
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running VPP IPv4 interconnecting \
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces, rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is 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 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 NFs nodes\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-10c2n
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains for multiple chains with Vhost-User
+| | ... | nf_chains=${10} | nf_nodes=${2}
+| | And Configure chains of NFs connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | nf_chains=${10} | nf_nodes=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False} | auto_scale=${False} | vnf=vpp_chain_ip4
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-10ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/vm_vhost/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/vm_vhost/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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index 0000000000..577aff18b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/vm_vhost/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+# 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 | VHOST | VM
+| ... | VHOST_1024 | NF_DENSITY | NF_VPPIP4 | CHAIN | 2R10C | 20VM1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | ${nic_name}
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation
+| ... | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with 40 vhost 2 chains 20 VMs*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge-\
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu VNFs are connected to VPP via\
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running VPP IPv4 interconnecting \
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces, rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is 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 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 NFs nodes\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-2c10n
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains for multiple chains with Vhost-User
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${10}
+| | And Configure chains of NFs connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | nf_chains=${2} | nf_nodes=${10} | jumbo=${jumbo}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False} | auto_scale=${False} | vnf=vpp_chain_ip4
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bd-2ch-40vh-20vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/vm_vhost/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-4ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/nfv_density/vm_vhost/chain/2n-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bd-4ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr.robot
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@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+# 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 | VHOST | VM
+| ... | VHOST_1024 | NF_DENSITY | NF_VPPIP4 | CHAIN | 4R6C | 24VM1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | ${nic_name}
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation
+| ... | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with 48 vhost 4 chains 24 VMs*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge-\
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu VNFs are connected to VPP via\
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running VPP IPv4 interconnecting \
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces, rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is 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 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 NFs nodes\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-4c6n
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains for multiple chains with Vhost-User
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${6}
+| | And Configure chains of NFs connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | nf_chains=${4} | nf_nodes=${6} | jumbo=${jumbo}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False} | auto_scale=${False} | vnf=vpp_chain_ip4
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-4ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
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+# 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 | VHOST | VM
+| ... | VHOST_1024 | NF_DENSITY | NF_VPPIP4 | CHAIN | 6R4C | 24VM1T
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | ${nic_name}
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation
+| ... | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with 48 vhost 6 chains 24 VMs*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge-\
+| ... | domain and MAC learning enabled. Qemu VNFs are connected to VPP via\
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running VPP IPv4 interconnecting \
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces, rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is 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 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 NFs nodes\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+| ${nf_dtcr}= | ${2}
+| ${nf_dtc}= | ${0.5}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n3n-ethip4-ip4src254-6c4n
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - 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}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | Set Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains for multiple chains with Vhost-User
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${4}
+| | And Configure chains of NFs connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | nf_chains=${6} | nf_nodes=${4} | jumbo=${jumbo}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False} | auto_scale=${False} | vnf=vpp_chain_ip4
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bd-6ch-48vh-24vm1t-vppip4-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}