CSIT-704: Add ACL IP4BASE perf tests

Change-Id: I1fada28f2855534faf3b3051a3efe1cbb4dcdd03
Signed-off-by: Jan Gelety <jgelety@cisco.com>

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diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | IACL | ACL10 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | IACL | ACL10 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | IACL | ACL10 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | IACL | ACL10 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | IACL | ACL10 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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index 0000000000..72cc901399
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | IACL | ACL10 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl10-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | IACL | ACL1 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | IACL | ACL1 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf9974ad55
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+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | IACL | ACL1 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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--- /dev/null
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | IACL | ACL1 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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index 0000000000..3ef6e0474c
--- /dev/null
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | IACL | ACL1 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3aa0f972d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 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.Classify
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | IACL | ACL1 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl1-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | IACL | ACL50 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | IACL | ACL50 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a3cd4215b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | IACL | ACL50 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | IACL | ACL50 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | IACL | ACL50 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..98f3b445d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | IACL | ACL50 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | input
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-iacl50-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | OACL | ACL10 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | OACL | ACL10 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..64f033cd82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | OACL | ACL10 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | OACL | ACL10 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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index 0000000000..f1e25dff14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | OACL | ACL10 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1f1f3b1e65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | OACL | ACL10 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 10
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl10-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | OACL | ACL1 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | OACL | ACL1 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..074c07cdcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | OACL | ACL1 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | OACL | ACL1 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5bca34e36e
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+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | OACL | ACL1 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c1bb104d6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | OACL | ACL1 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 1
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl1-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sf-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | OACL | ACL50 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ef31d67e55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sf-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | OACL | ACL50 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b0a9f72730
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sf-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATEFUL
+| ... | OACL | ACL50 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit+reflect
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateful-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sl-100flows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | OACL | ACL50 | 100_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u10p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows100-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows100-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d11a282d1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sl-100kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | OACL | ACL50 | 100k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 100k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 100
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-100u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows100k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows100k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f3d2004fcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/10ge2p1x520-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50sl-10kflows-ndrpdrdisc.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDRDISC
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | ACL | ACL_STATELESS
+| ... | OACL | ACL50 | 10k_FLOWS
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model
+| ... | L3 | Intel-X520-DA2
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Set up performance test
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance test with ACL | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Packet throughput IPv4 test cases with ACL*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-UDP for L2 switching of IPv4.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with L2 bridge domain\
+| ... | and MAC learning enabled. DUT2 is configured with L2 cross-connects.\
+| ... | Required ACL rules are applied to input paths of both DUT1 intefaces.\
+| ... | DUT1 and DUT2 are tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic 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 either binary search or linear search\
+| ... | algorithms with configured starting rate and final step that determines\
+| ... | throughput measurement resolution. Test packets are generated by TG on\
+| ... | links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3 flow-groups\
+| ... | (flow-group per direction, ${flows_per_dir} flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and\
+| ... | static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+
+# ACL test setup
+| ${acl_action}= | permit
+| ${acl_apply_type}= | output
+| ${no_hit_aces_number}= | 50
+| ${flows_per_dir}= | 10k
+
+# starting points for non-hitting ACLs
+| ${src_ip_start}= | 30.30.30.1
+| ${dst_ip_start}= | 40.40.40.1
+| ${ip_step}= | ${1}
+| ${sport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${dport_start}= | ${1000}
+| ${port_step}= | ${1}
+| ${trex_stream1_subnet}= | 10.10.10.0/24
+| ${trex_stream2_subnet}= | 20.20.20.0/24
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | [Arguments] | ${wt} | ${rxq} | ${framesize} | ${min_rate} | ${search_type}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${max_rate}= | Calculate pps | ${s_limit} | ${framesize}
+| | ${binary_min}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | ${binary_max}= | Set Variable | ${max_rate}
+| | ${threshold}= | Set Variable | ${min_rate}
+| | Given Add '${wt}' worker threads and '${rxq}' rxqueues in 3-node single-link circular topology
+| | And Add PCI devices to DUTs in 3-node single link topology
+| | ${get_framesize}= | Get Frame Size | ${framesize}
+| | And Run Keyword If | ${get_framesize} < ${1522} | Add no multi seg to all DUTs
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | ${ip_nr}= | Set Variable | 10
+| | When Initialize IPv4 routing for '${ip_nr}' addresses with IPv4 ACLs on DUT1 in 3-node circular topology
+| | ${traffic_profile}= | Set Variable | trex-sl-3n-ethip4udp-10u1000p-conc
+| | Set Test Variable | ${traffic_profile}
+| | Then Run Keyword If | '${search_type}' == 'NDR'
+| | ... | Find NDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ELSE IF | '${search_type}' == 'PDR'
+| | ... | Find PDR using binary search and pps
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${binary_min} | ${binary_max} | ${traffic_profile}
+| | ... | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate} | ${threshold}
+| | ... | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance} | ${perf_pdr_loss_acceptance_type}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc02-64B-1t1c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 1 thread, 1 phy core, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1T1C | STHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=1 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR
+
+| tc03-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows10k-ndrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find NDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | NDRDISC
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=NDR
+
+| tc04-64B-2t2c-ethip4udp-ip4base-oacl50-stateless-flows10k-pdrdisc
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config with ACL with\
+| | ... | 2 threads, 2 phy cores, 1 receive queue per NIC port.
+| | ... | [Ver] Find PDR for 64 Byte frames using binary search start at 10GE\
+| | ... | linerate, step 10kpps, LT=0.5%.
+| | ...
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2T2C | MTHREAD | PDRDISC | SKIP_PATCH
+| | ...
+| | [Template] | Discover NDR or PDR for IPv4 routing with ACLs
+| | wt=2 | rxq=1 | framesize=${64} | min_rate=${10000} | search_type=PDR