L2 Ethernet Switching
=====================
Following sections provide a summary of VPP Phy-to-Phy L2 Ethernet switching
performance illustrating NDR throughput (zero packet loss) and PDR throughput
(<0.5% packet loss). Performance is reported for VPP running in multiple
configurations of VPP worker thread(s), a.k.a. VPP data plane thread (s), and
their physical CPU core(s) placement.
*Title of each graph* is a regex (regular expression) matching all plotted
throughput test cases, *X-axis labels* are indeces of csit-vpp-perf-1701 jobs
that created result output files used as data sources for the graph,
*Y-axis labels* are measured Packets Per Second [pps] values, and the *graph
legend* identifes the plotted test suites.
.. note::
Data sources for reported test results: i) FD.io test executor jobs
`csit-vpp-perf-1701-all
`_ and
`csit-vpp-perf-1701-long
`_
, ii) archived FD.io jobs test result `output files
<../../_static/archive/>`_.
NDR Throughput
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
VPP NDR Throughput - running in configuration of **one worker thread (1t) on
one physical core (1c)** - is presented in the figure below.
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*Figure 1. VPP 1thread 1core - NDR Throughput for Phy-to-Phy L2 Ethernet
Switching.*
CSIT test cases used to generate results presented above can be found in CSIT
git repository by filtering with specified regex as follows:
.. code-block:: bash
$ csit/tests/perf
$ grep -E "64B-1t1c-(eth|dot1q|dot1ad)-(l2xcbase|l2bdbasemaclrn)-ndrdisc" *
10ge2p1vic1227-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1ad-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc01-64B-1t1c-dot1ad-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc01-64B-1t1c-dot1q-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
40ge2p1vic1385-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc01-64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
VPP NDR Throughput - running in configuration of **two worker threads (2t) on two
physical cores (2c)** - is presented in the figure below.
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*Figure 2. VPP 2threads 2cores - NDR Throughput for Phy-to-Phy L2 Ethernet
Switching.*
CSIT test cases used to generate results presented above can be found in CSIT
git repository by filtering with specified regex as follows:
.. code-block:: bash
$ csit/tests/perf
$ grep -E "64B-2t2c-(eth|dot1q|dot1ad)-(l2xcbase|l2bdbasemaclrn)-ndrdisc" *
10ge2p1vic1227-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc07-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1ad-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc07-64B-2t2c-dot1ad-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc07-64B-2t2c-dot1q-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc07-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc07-64B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc07-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
40ge2p1vic1385-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc07-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc07-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc07-64B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
VPP NDR Throughput - running in configuration of **four worker threads (4t) on
four physical cores (4c)** - is presented in the figure below.
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*Figure 3. VPP 4threads 4cores - NDR Throughput for Phy-to-Phy L2 Ethernet
Switching.*
CSIT test cases used to generate results presented above can be found in CSIT
git repository by filtering with specified regex as follows:
.. code-block:: bash
$ csit/tests/perf
$ grep -E "64B-4t4c-(eth|dot1q|dot1ad)-(l2xcbase|l2bdbasemaclrn)-ndrdisc" *
10ge2p1vic1227-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc13-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1ad-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc13-64B-4t4c-dot1ad-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc13-64B-4t4c-dot1q-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc13-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc13-64B-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc13-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
40ge2p1vic1385-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc13-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc13-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc
40ge2p1xl710-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc13-64B-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc
PDR Throughput
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
VPP PDR Throughput - running in configuration of **one worker thread (1t) on one
physical core (1c)** - is presented in the figure below. PDR at below 0.5% packet
loss ratio.
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*Figure 4. VPP 1thread 1core - PDR Throughput for Phy-to-Phy L2 Ethernet
Switching.*
CSIT test cases used to generate results presented above can be found in CSIT
git repository by filtering with specified regex as follows:
.. code-block:: bash
$ csit/tests/perf
$ grep -E "64B-1t1c-(eth|dot1q|dot1ad)-(l2xcbase|l2bdbasemaclrn)-pdrdisc" *
10ge2p1vic1227-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc02-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1ad-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc02-64B-1t1c-dot1ad-l2xcbase-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc02-64B-1t1c-dot1q-l2xcbase-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc02-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc02-64B-1t1c-eth-l2xcbase-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc02-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc
40ge2p1vic1385-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc02-64B-1t1c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc
VPP PDR Throughput - running in configuration of **two worker threads (2t) on
two physical cores (2c)** - is presented in the figure below.
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*Figure 5. VPP 2thread 2core - PDR Throughput for Phy-to-Phy L2 Ethernet
Switching.*
CSIT test cases used to generate results presented above can be found in CSIT
git repository by filtering with specified regex as follows:
.. code-block:: bash
$ csit/tests/perf
$ grep -E "64B-2t2c-(eth|dot1q|dot1ad)-(l2xcbase|l2bdbasemaclrn)-pdrdisc" *
10ge2p1vic1227-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc08-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1ad-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc08-64B-2t2c-dot1ad-l2xcbase-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc08-64B-2t2c-dot1q-l2xcbase-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc08-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc08-64B-2t2c-eth-l2xcbase-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc08-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc
40ge2p1vic1385-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc08-64B-2t2c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc
VPP PDR Throughput - running in configuration of **four worker threads (4t) on
four physical cores (4c)** - is presented in the figure below.
.. raw:: html
*Figure 6. VPP 4thread 4core - PDR Throughput for Phy-to-Phy L2 Ethernet
Switching.*
CSIT test cases used to generate results presented above can be found in CSIT
git repository by filtering with specified regex as follows:
.. code-block:: bash
$ csit/tests/perf
$ grep -E "64B-4t4c-(eth|dot1q|dot1ad)-(l2xcbase|l2bdbasemaclrn)-pdrdisc" *
10ge2p1vic1227-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc14-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1ad-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc14-64B-4t4c-dot1ad-l2xcbase-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-dot1q-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc14-64B-4t4c-dot1q-l2xcbase-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc14-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x520-eth-l2xcbase-ndrdisc.robot:| tc14-64B-4t4c-eth-l2xcbase-pdrdisc
10ge2p1x710-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-ndrdisc.robot:| tc14-64B-4t4c-eth-l2bdbasemaclrn-pdrdisc