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+Performance Tests
+-----------------
+
+Performance trending relies on Maximum Receive Rate (MRR) tests.
+MRR tests measure the packet forwarding rate, in multiple trials of set
+duration, under the maximum load offered by traffic generator
+regardless of packet loss. Maximum load for specified Ethernet frame
+size is set to the bi-directional link rate.
+
+Current parameters for performance trending MRR tests:
+
+- **Ethernet frame sizes**: 64B (78B for IPv6 tests) for all tests, IMIX for
+  selected tests (vhost, memif); all quoted sizes include frame CRC, but
+  exclude per frame transmission overhead of 20B (preamble, inter frame
+  gap).
+- **Maximum load offered**: 10GE and 40GE link (sub-)rates depending on NIC
+  tested, with the actual packet rate depending on frame size,
+  transmission overhead and traffic generator NIC forwarding capacity.
+
+  - For 10GE NICs the maximum packet rate load is 2* 14.88 Mpps for 64B,
+    a 10GE bi-directional link rate.
+  - For 40GE NICs the maximum packet rate load is 2* 18.75 Mpps for 64B,
+    a 40GE bi-directional link sub-rate limited by the packet forwarding
+    capacity of 2-port 40GE NIC model (XL710) used on T-Rex Traffic
+    Generator.
+
+- **Trial duration**: 1 sec.
+- **Number of trials per test**: 10.
+- **Test execution frequency**: twice a day, every 12 hrs (02:00,
+  14:00 UTC).
+
+Note: MRR tests should be reporting bi-directional link rate (or NIC
+rate, if lower) if tested VPP configuration can handle the packet rate
+higher than bi-directional link rate, e.g. large packet tests and/or
+multi-core tests. In other words MRR = min(VPP rate, bi-dir link rate,
+NIC rate).