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diff --git a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst index 74e3082f8e..99cd9e8540 100644 --- a/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst +++ b/docs/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.rst @@ -6,16 +6,34 @@ Changes in |csit-release| #. **VPP performance tests** - - *MRR tests* - New Maximum Receive Rate tests measure the packet - forwarding rate under the maximum load offered by traffic - generator over a set trial duration, regardless of packet loss. - MRR tests are used for continuous performance trending and for - comparison between releases. + - *MRR tests* - Maximum Receive Rate tests measure the packet forwarding rate + under the maximum load offered by traffic generator over a set trial + duration, regardless of packet loss. MRR tests are used for continuous + performance trending and for comparison between releases. - - *Service Chaining with SRv6* - New SRv6 (Segment Routing IPv6) proxy - tests measure performance of SRv6 Endpoint fronting SR-unaware - appliance via masquerading (End.AM), dynamic proxy (End.AD) or - static proxy (End.AS) SR functions. + - *MLR tests* - NDR and PDR tests measure the packet forwarding rate using + MLRsearch library by traffic generator. All tests that previously used + binary search were converted to MLRsearch. + + - *L2patch tests* - Tests measure performance of L2patch, cross linking + RX and TX of two physical interfaces. + + - *2-node tests* - Baseline set of 2-node tests covering base ip4, ip4, + l2patch, l2bd, l2xc. + + - *Generated tests* - Simplified and unified test structure, + semi-autogenerated by generator script. Test generator is currently able + to create test combinations with various frame size and cores combinations. + All existing test cases were converted to new format. + + - *Simultaneous multithreading* - SMT-aware automatic detection and + resource configuration including thread affinity, number of rx queues and + DPDK I/O mbufs. Tests are automatically tagged during execution indicating + configuration. + + - *Intel Skylake* - Topologies consisting of 2-node and 3-node using + SuperMirco servers each equipped with two Intel Xeon Skylake Platinum + processors. #. **Presentation and Analytics Layer** @@ -190,7 +208,3 @@ List of known issues in |csit-release| for VPP performance tests: | 4 | IPSec (software, no QAT HW) throughput | CSIT-1064 | IPSec throughput regression: NDR -3%..-8%, PDR -2%..-8%, MRR | | | regression. | | -3%..-7%. Affects IPSec SW tests, QAT HW tests not affected. | +---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 5 | High failure rate of creating working container | CSIT-1065 | About 20% of orchestrated container topology tests failing data | -| | topologies with K8s/Ligato orchestration. | | plane verification indicating configuration issue. Suspected | -| | | | issue with Ligato vpp-agent. | -+---+-------------------------------------------------+------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |