CSIT-1164 Create VM vhost tests for 2-node topology

Change-Id: I955d3170da94cf35a2fda03259bcdc020ac2b652
Signed-off-by: Peter Mikus <pmikus@cisco.com>

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+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per flow-group) with all packets
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP protocol=61 and static
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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 ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3a128c3daa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..90c7086582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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 ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..16ef613a15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE
+| ... | NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3d4d72bcd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE
+| ... | NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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 ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b2e996428
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE
+| ... | NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79a41193d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE
+| ... | NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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 ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e7adc19b46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE
+| ... | NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3871f4bb53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE
+| ... | NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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 ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6f6782a584
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to mac, rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 253 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e64e68fe2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to mac, rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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, 253 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f8f696b1da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to mac, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 253 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..05ee29911b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to mac, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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, 253 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c0c991c048
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to mac, rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 253 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2a9af8d05e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to mac, rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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, 253 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..69488f3b06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per flow-group) with all packets
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP protocol=61 and static
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1184a26e02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7af011b552
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6614c6970
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6ea54b10f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..50da40edda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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 Guest is connected to VPP via
+| ... | vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2BD switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 bridge domains with Vhost-User | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..17b2681960
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE
+| ... | NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cd6992053e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE
+| ... | NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b8af148159
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE
+| ... | NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..40f1b42c80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE
+| ... | NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bbfa3b17bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE
+| ... | NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ba4cce7f0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | L2XCFWD | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L2 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2XC test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[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. 802.1q
+| ... | tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 cross-
+| ... | connect. Qemu Guest is connected to VPP via vhost-user interfaces.
+| ... | Guest is running DPDK testpmd interconnecting vhost-user interfaces,
+| ... | forwarding mode is set to io, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE
+| ... | NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src254
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs L2XC switching config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 xconnect with Vhost-User | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-eth-l2xcbase-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f81b36f207
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is set to mac,
+| ... | rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 253 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3aeb3d74e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is set to mac,
+| ... | rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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, 253 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr1024-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4dd7e106a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to mac, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 253 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 1VM | VHOST_256
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is
+| ... | set to mac, rxd/txd=256. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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, 253 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${1}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${1} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${256}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-2vhostvr256-1vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..901ab1eb49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is set to mac,
+| ... | rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 253 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..71e6b00a75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/vm_vhost/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 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
+| Library | resources.libraries.python.QemuUtils
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | VHOST | 2VM | VHOST_1024
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-XXV710
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with vhost and VM with dpdk-testpmd
+| ... | ${min_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ... | dut1_node=${dut1} | dut1_vm_refs=${dut1_vm_refs}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 test cases with vhost*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. Qemu Guest is connected
+| ... | to VPP via vhost-user interfaces. Guest is running DPDK testpmd
+| ... | interconnecting vhost-user interfaces, forwarding mode is set to mac,
+| ... | rxd/txd=1024. DUT1 is tested with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or 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, 253 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 ***
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-ethip4-ip4src253
+
+*** 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:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ${dut1_vm_refs}= | Create Dictionary
+| | Set Test Variable | ${dut1_vm_refs}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize IPv4 forwarding with vhost in 2-node circular topology
+| | ... | vm_count=${2}
+| | And Configure guest VMs with dpdk-testpmd-mac connected via vhost-user
+| | ... | vm_count=${2} | jumbo=${jumbo} | perf_qemu_qsz=${1024}
+| | ... | use_tuned_cfs=${False}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-ethip4-ip4base-eth-4vhostvr1024-2vm-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}