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Packet Latency
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TRex Traffic Generator (TG) is used for measuring latency of VPP DUTs.
Reported latency values are measured using following methodology:
- Latency tests are performed at 100% of discovered NDR and PDR rates
for each throughput test and packet size (except IMIX).
- TG sends dedicated latency streams, one per direction, each at the
rate of 9 kpps at the prescribed packet size; these are sent in
addition to the main load streams.
- TG reports min/avg/max latency values per stream direction, hence two
sets of latency values are reported per test case; future release of
TRex is expected to report latency percentiles.
- Reported latency values are aggregate across two SUTs due to three
node topology used for all performance tests; for per SUT latency,
reported value should be divided by two.
- 1usec is the measurement accuracy advertised by TRex TG for the setup
used in FD.io labs used by CSIT project.
- TRex setup introduces an always-on error of about 2*2usec per latency
flow additonal Tx/Rx interface latency induced by TRex SW writing and
reading packet timestamps on CPU cores without HW acceleration on NICs
closer to the interface line.
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