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diff --git a/docs/content/methodology/vpp_startup_settings.md b/docs/content/methodology/vpp_startup_settings.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6e40091a6c..0000000000 --- a/docs/content/methodology/vpp_startup_settings.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "VPP Startup Settings" -weight: 17 ---- - -# VPP Startup Settings - -CSIT code manipulates a number of VPP settings in startup.conf for -optimized performance. List of common settings applied to all tests and -test dependent settings follows. - -## Common Settings - -List of VPP startup.conf settings applied to all tests: - -1. heap-size <value> - set separately for ip4, ip6, stats, main - depending on scale tested. -2. no-tx-checksum-offload - disables UDP / TCP TX checksum offload in - DPDK. Typically needed for use faster vector PMDs (together with - no-multi-seg). -3. buffers-per-numa <value> - sets a number of memory buffers allocated - to VPP per CPU socket. VPP default is 16384. Needs to be increased for - scenarios with large number of interfaces and worker threads. To - accommodate for scale tests, CSIT is setting it to the maximum possible - value corresponding to the limit of DPDK memory mappings (currently - 256). For Xeon Skylake platforms configured with 2MB hugepages and VPP - data-size and buffer-size defaults (2048B and 2496B respectively), this - results in value of 215040 (256 * 840 = 215040, 840 * 2496B buffers fit - in 2MB hugepage). - -## Per Test Settings - -List of vpp startup.conf settings applied dynamically per test: - -1. corelist-workers <list_of_cores> - list of logical cores to run VPP - worker data plane threads. Depends on HyperThreading and core per - test configuration. -2. num-rx-queues <value> - depends on a number of VPP threads and NIC - interfaces. -3. no-multi-seg - disables multi-segment buffers in DPDK, improves - packet throughput, but disables Jumbo MTU support. Disabled for all - tests apart from the ones that require Jumbo 9000B frame support. -4. UIO driver - depends on topology file definition. -5. QAT VFs - depends on NRThreads, each thread = 1QAT VFs. |