Add dot1q-l2bdbase-2memif-[ndrpdr|mrr] perf tests for 2-node topology

Jira: CSIT-1289

Change-Id: I9e3f1f4a03e3cac9d8831f3a87e0b1bce27a109e
Signed-off-by: Jan Gelety <jgelety@cisco.com>

8 files changed, 1242 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | DOT1Q | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | Intel-X520-DA2
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD with memif and IEEE 802.1Q test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain. IEEE\
+| ... | 802.1Q tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with two L2\
+| ... | bridge domains and MAC learning enabled. Container is connected to VPP\
+| ... | via Memif interface. Container is running same VPP version as running\
+| ... | on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores allocated from\
+| ... | pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory constraints. DUT1 and DUT2\
+| ... | tested with 2p10GE NIC X520 Niantic by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic\
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per\
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header\
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC\
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${subid}= | 10
+| ${tag_rewrite}= | pop-1
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${overhead}= | ${4}
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] Each DUT runs L2BD switching with VLAN and uses ${phy_cores}\
+| | ... | physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X520-DA2 | DOT1Q | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | Intel-X520-DA2
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD with memif and IEEE 802.1Q test
+| ... | cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain. IEEE\
+| ... | 802.1Q tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with two L2\
+| ... | bridge domains and MAC learning enabled. Container is connected to VPP\
+| ... | via Memif interface. Container is running same VPP version as running\
+| ... | on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores allocated from\
+| ... | pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory constraints. DUT1 and DUT2\
+| ... | 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 MLRsearch library. Test packets are\
+| ... | generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3\
+| ... | flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP\
+| ... | protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC\
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${subid}= | 10
+| ${tag_rewrite}= | pop-1
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${overhead}= | ${4}
+# X520-DA2 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] Each DUT runs L2BD switching with VLAN and uses ${phy_cores}\
+| | ... | physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | DOT1Q | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD with memif and IEEE 802.1Q test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain. IEEE\
+| ... | 802.1Q tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with two L2\
+| ... | bridge domains and MAC learning enabled. Container is connected to VPP\
+| ... | via Memif interface. Container is running same VPP version as running\
+| ... | on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores allocated from\
+| ... | pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory constraints. DUT1 and DUT2\
+| ... | tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic\
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per\
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header\
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC\
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${subid}= | 10
+| ${tag_rewrite}= | pop-1
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${overhead}= | ${4}
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] Each DUT runs L2BD switching with VLAN and uses ${phy_cores}\
+| | ... | physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
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+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | DOT1Q | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 3-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 3-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD with memif and IEEE 802.1Q test
+| ... | cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-DUT2-TG 3-node circular topology\
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain. IEEE\
+| ... | 802.1Q tagging is applied on link between DUT1 and DUT2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 and DUT2 are configured with two L2\
+| ... | bridge domains and MAC learning enabled. Container is connected to VPP\
+| ... | via Memif interface. Container is running same VPP version as running\
+| ... | on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores allocated from\
+| ... | pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory constraints. DUT1 and DUT2\
+| ... | tested with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library. Test packets are\
+| ... | generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile contains two L3\
+| ... | flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP\
+| ... | protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC\
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${subid}= | 10
+| ${tag_rewrite}= | pop-1
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${overhead}= | ${4}
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-3n-ethip4-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] Each DUT runs L2BD switching with VLAN and uses ${phy_cores}\
+| | ... | physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f250e801b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | DOT1Q | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD with memif and IEEE 802.1Q test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with\
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain. IEEE\
+| ... | 802.1Q tagging is applied on link between DUT1-if2 and TG-if2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge\
+| ... | domains and MAC learning enabled. Container is connected to VPP via\
+| ... | Memif interface. Container is running same VPP version as running\
+| ... | on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores allocated from\
+| ... | pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory constraints. DUT1 is tested\
+| ... | with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic\
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUT1. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per\
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header\
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC\
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${subid}= | 10
+| ${tag_rewrite}= | pop-1
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${overhead}= | ${4}
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-dot1qip4asym-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] Each DUT runs L2BD switching with VLAN and uses ${phy_cores}\
+| | ... | physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2ec53e4c56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | DOT1Q | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | Intel-X710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD with memif and IEEE 802.1Q test
+| ... | cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with\
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain. IEEE\
+| ... | 802.1Q tagging is applied on link between DUT1-if2 and TG-if2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge\
+| ... | domains and MAC learning enabled. Container is connected to VPP via\
+| ... | Memif interface. Container is running same VPP version as running\
+| ... | on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores allocated from\
+| ... | pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory constraints. DUT1 is tested\
+| ... | with 2p10GE NIC X710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library. Test packets are\
+| ... | generated by TG on links to DUT1. TG traffic profile contains two L3\
+| ... | flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP\
+| ... | protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC\
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${subid}= | 10
+| ${tag_rewrite}= | pop-1
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${overhead}= | ${4}
+# X710 bandwidth limit
+| ${s_limit}= | ${10000000000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-dot1qip4asym-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] Each DUT runs L2BD switching with VLAN and uses ${phy_cores}\
+| | ... | physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_limit} | ${framesize} | overhead=${overhead}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e8d6c0a46d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | MRR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | DOT1Q | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | Intel-XXV710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance mrr test
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *Raw results L2BD with memif and IEEE 802.1Q test cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with\
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain. IEEE\
+| ... | 802.1Q tagging is applied on link between DUT1-if2 and TG-if2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge\
+| ... | domains and MAC learning enabled. Container is connected to VPP via\
+| ... | Memif interface. Container is running same VPP version as running\
+| ... | on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores allocated from\
+| ... | pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory constraints. DUT1 is tested\
+| ... | with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* In MaxReceivedRate test TG sends traffic\
+| ... | at line rate and reports total received/sent packets over trial period.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUT1. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contains two L3 flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per\
+| ... | flow-group) with all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header\
+| ... | with IP protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC\
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${subid}= | 10
+| ${tag_rewrite}= | pop-1
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${overhead}= | ${4}
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-dot1qip4asym-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] Each DUT runs L2BD switching with VLAN and uses ${phy_cores}\
+| | ... | physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure MaxReceivedRate for ${framesize}B frames using single\
+| | ... | trial throughput test.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | ... | overhead=${overhead}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
+| | Then Traffic should pass with maximum rate
+| | ... | ${max_rate}pps | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-mrr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/container_memif/2n1l-25ge2p1xxv710-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr.robot
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@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/performance/performance_setup.robot
+| ...
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-XXV710 | DOT1Q | L2BDMACLRN | BASE | MEMIF | DOCKER
+| ...
+| Suite Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up 2-node performance topology with DUT's NIC model | L2
+| ... | Intel-XXV710
+| ... | AND | Set up performance test suite with MEMIF
+| ... | AND | Set up performance topology with containers
+| ...
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down 2-node performance topology with container
+| ...
+| Test Setup | Run Keywords
+| ... | Set up performance test
+| ... | AND | Restart VPP in all 'VNF' containers
+| ...
+| Test Teardown | Tear down performance discovery test | ${min_rate}pps
+| ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile}
+| ...
+| Test Template | Local Template
+| ...
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput L2BD with memif and IEEE 802.1Q test
+| ... | cases*
+| ...
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology with\
+| ... | single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4 for L2 bridge domain. IEEE\
+| ... | 802.1Q tagging is applied on link between DUT1-if2 and TG-if2.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with two L2 bridge\
+| ... | domains and MAC learning enabled. Container is connected to VPP via\
+| ... | Memif interface. Container is running same VPP version as running\
+| ... | on DUT. Container is limited via cgroup to use 3 cores allocated from\
+| ... | pool of isolated CPUs. There are no memory constraints. DUT1 is tested\
+| ... | with 2p25GE NIC XXV710 by Intel.
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance or throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library. Test packets are\
+| ... | generated by TG on links to DUT1. TG traffic profile contains two L3\
+| ... | flow-groups (flow-group per direction, 254 flows per flow-group) with\
+| ... | all packets containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with IP\
+| ... | protocol=61 and static payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC\
+| ... | addresses of the TG node interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| ${subid}= | 10
+| ${tag_rewrite}= | pop-1
+| ${bd_id1}= | 1
+| ${bd_id2}= | 2
+| ${overhead}= | ${4}
+# XXV710-DA2 bandwidth limit ~49Gbps/2=24.5Gbps
+| ${s_24.5G}= | ${24500000000}
+# XXV710-DA2 Mpps limit 37.5Mpps/2=18.75Mpps
+| ${s_18.75Mpps}= | ${18750000}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-sl-2n-dot1qip4asym-ip4src254
+# LXC container
+| ${container_count}= | ${1}
+| ${container_engine}= | Docker
+| ${container_image}= | ubuntu:xenial-20180412
+| ${container_install_dkms}= | ${FALSE}
+| ${container_chain_topology}= | chain
+# CPU settings
+| ${system_cpus}= | ${1}
+| ${vpp_cpus}= | ${5}
+| ${container_cpus}= | ${5}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] Each DUT runs L2BD switching with VLAN and uses ${phy_cores}\
+| | ... | physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.
+| | ...
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - framesize - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| | ...
+| | [Arguments] | ${framesize} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| | ...
+| | Set Test Variable | ${framesize}
+| | Set Test Variable | ${min_rate} | ${10000}
+| | ...
+| | Given Add worker threads and rxqueues to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Add PCI devices to all DUTs
+| | ${max_rate} | ${jumbo} = | Get Max Rate And Jumbo And Handle Multi Seg
+| | ... | ${s_24.5G} | ${framesize} | pps_limit=${s_18.75Mpps}
+| | ... | overhead=${overhead}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize L2 Bridge Domain with memif pairs and VLAN in circular topology
+| | ... | ${bd_id1} | ${bd_id2} | ${subid} | ${tag_rewrite}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search
+| | ... | ${framesize} | ${traffic_profile} | ${min_rate} | ${max_rate}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| tc01-64B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc02-64B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc03-64B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | framesize=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc04-1518B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc05-1518B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc06-1518B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | framesize=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc07-9000B-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc08-9000B-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc09-9000B-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | framesize=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| tc10-IMIX-1c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| tc11-IMIX-2c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| tc12-IMIX-4c-dot1q-l2bdbasemaclrn-eth-2memif-1dcr-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | framesize=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}