10.4. CSIT TAGs Descriptions¶
All CSIT test cases are labelled with Robot Framework tags used to allow for easy test case type identification, test case grouping and selection for execution. Following sections list currently used CSIT TAGs and their documentation based on the content of tag documentation rst file.
10.4.1. Topology TAGs¶
3_NODE_DOUBLE_LINK_TOPO
3 nodes connected in a circular topology with two links interconnecting the devices.
3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO
3 nodes connected in a circular topology with at least one link interconnecting devices.
10.4.2. Objective TAGs¶
SKIP_PATCH
Test case(s) marked to not run in case of vpp-csit-verify (i.e. VPP patch) and csit-vpp-verify jobs (i.e. CSIT patch).
SKIP_VPP_PATCH
Test case(s) marked to not run in case of vpp-csit-verify (i.e. VPP patch).
10.4.3. Environment TAGs¶
HW_ENV
DUTs and TGs are running on bare metal.
VM_ENV
DUTs and TGs are running in virtual environment.
VPP_VM_ENV
DUTs with VPP and capable of running Virtual Machine.
10.4.4. NIC model tags¶
NIC_Intel-X520-DA2
Intel X520-DA2 NIC.
NIC_Intel-XL710
Intel XL710 NIC.
NIC_Intel-X710
Intel X710 NIC.
NIC_Cisco-VIC-1227
VIC-1227 by Cisco.
NIC_Cisco-VIC-1385
VIC-1385 by Cisco.
10.4.5. Scaling TAGs¶
FIB_20K
2x10,000 entries in single fib table
FIB_200K
2x100,000 entries in single fib table
FIB_2M
2x1,000,000 entries in single fib table
TNL_1000
IPSec in tunnel mode - 1000 tunnels.
SRC_USER_10
Traffic flow with 10 unique IPs (users) in one direction.
SRC_USER_100
Traffic flow with 100 unique IPs (users) in one direction.
SRC_USER_1000
Traffic flow with 1000 unique IPs (users) in one direction.
SRC_USER_2000
Traffic flow with 2000 unique IPs (users) in one direction.
SRC_USER_4000
Traffic flow with 4000 unique IPs (users) in one direction.
100_FLOWS
Traffic stream with 100 unique flows (10 IPs/users x 10 UDP ports) in one direction.
10k_FLOWS
Traffic stream with 10 000 unique flows (10 IPs/users x 1000 UDP ports) in one direction.
100k_FLOWS
Traffic stream with 100 000 unique flows (100 IPs/users x 1000 UDP ports) in one direction.
10.4.6. Tags marking functional vs. performance of tests¶
FUNCTEST
All functional test cases.
PERFTEST
All performance test cases.
10.4.7. Performance testing tags¶
PDRDISC
Partial Drop Rate evaluation of single run result, with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage of packets transmitted.
NDRDISC
Non Drop Rate evaluation of results. Loss acceptance of dropped packets is set to zero lost packets.
NDRPDR
Single test finding both No Drop Rate and Partial Drop Rate simultaneously. The search is done by optimized algorithm which performs multiple trial runs at different durations and transmit rates.
NDRCHK
Performance tests where TG verifies DUTs’ throughput at ref-NDR (reference Non Drop Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance.
PDRCHK
Performance tests where TG verifies DUTs’ throughput at ref-PDR (reference Partial Drop Rate) with 0.5% loss tolerance.
MRR
Performance tests where TG sends the traffic at maximum rate (line rate) and reports total sent/received packets over performance trial duration.
NDRPDRDISC
Find performance of DUT based on RFC 2544 with linear / binary / combined search. (Previous LONG tests.)
10.4.8. Ethernet frame size tags for performance tests¶
64B
64B frames used for test.
78B
78B frames used for test.
IMIX
IMIX frame sequence (28x 64B, 16x 570B, 4x 1518B) used for test.
1460B
1460B frames used for test.
1480B
1480B frames used for test.
1514B
1514B frames used for test.
1518B
1518B frames used for test.
9000B
9000B frames used for test.
10.4.9. Test type tags¶
BASE
Baseline test cases, no encapsulation, no feature(s) configured in tests.
IP4BASE
IPv4 baseline test cases, no encapsulation, no feature(s) configured in tests.
IP6BASE
IPv6 baseline test cases, no encapsulation, no feature(s) configured in tests.
L2XCBASE
L2XC baseline test cases, no encapsulation, no feature(s) configured in tests.
L2BDBASE
L2BD baseline test cases, no encapsulation, no feature(s) configured in tests.
SCALE
Scale test cases.
ENCAP
Test cases where encapsulation is used. Use also encapsulation tag(s).
FEATURE
At least one feature is configured in test cases. Use also feature tag(s).
TLDK
Functional test cases for TLDK.
TCP
Tests which use TCP.
TCP_CPS
Performance tests which measure connections per second using http requests.
TCP_RPS
Performance tests which measure requests per second using http requests.
HTTP
Tests which use HTTP.
10.4.10. Forwarding mode tags¶
L2BDMACSTAT
VPP L2 bridge-domain, L2 MAC static.
L2BDMACLRN
VPP L2 bridge-domain, L2 MAC learning.
L2XCFWD
VPP L2 point-to-point cross-connect.
IP4FWD
VPP IPv4 routed forwarding.
IP6FWD
VPP IPv6 routed forwarding.
10.4.12. Overlay tags¶
L2OVRLAY
L2 overlay.
IP4OVRLAY
IPv4 overlay (IPv4 payload).
IP6OVRLAY
IPv6 overlay (IPv6 payload).
10.4.14. Encapsulation tags¶
ETH
All test cases with base Ethernet (no encapsulation).
LISP
All test cases with LISP.
LISPGPE
All test cases with LISP-GPE.
VXLAN
All test cases with Vxlan.
VXLANGPE
All test cases with VXLAN-GPE.
GRE
All test cases with GRE.
IPSEC
All test cases with IPSEC.
SRv6
All test cases with Segment routing over IPv6 dataplane.
10.4.15. Interface tags¶
PHY
All test cases which use physical interface(s).
VHOST
All test cases which uses VHOST.
VHOST_256
All test cases which uses VHOST with qemu queue size set to 256.
VHOST_1024
All test cases which uses VHOST with qemu queue size set to 1024.
CFS_OPT
All test cases which uses VM with optimised scheduler policy.
TUNTAP
All test cases which uses TUN and TAP.
AFPKT
All test cases which uses AFPKT.
NETMAP
All test cases which uses Netmap.
MEMIF
All test cases which uses Memif.
10.4.16. Feature tags¶
IACLDST
iACL destination.
COPWHLIST
COP whitelist.
NAT44
NAT44 configured and tested.
NAT64
NAT44 configured and tested.
ACL
ACL plugin configured and tested.
IACL
ACL plugin configured and tested on input path.
OACL
ACL plugin configured and tested on output path.
ACL_STATELESS
ACL plugin configured and tested in stateless mode (permit action).
ACL_STATEFUL
ACL plugin configured and tested in stateful mode (permit+reflect action).
ACL1
ACL plugin configured and tested with 1 not-hitting ACE.
ACL10
ACL plugin configured and tested with 10 not-hitting ACEs.
ACL50
ACL plugin configured and tested with 50 not-hitting ACEs.
SRv6_PROXY
SRv6 endpoint to SR-unaware appliance via proxy.
SRv6_PROXY_STAT
SRv6 endpoint to SR-unaware appliance via static proxy.
SRv6_PROXY_DYN
SRv6 endpoint to SR-unaware appliance via dynamic proxy.
SRv6_PROXY_MASQ
SRv6 endpoint to SR-unaware appliance via masquerading proxy.
10.4.17. Encryption tags¶
IPSECSW
Crypto in software.
IPSECHW
Crypto in hardware.
IPSECTRAN
IPSec in transport mode.
IPSECTUN
IPSec in tunnel mode.
10.4.18. Client-workload tags¶
VM
All test cases which use at least one virtual machine.
LXC
All test cases which use Linux container and LXC utils.
DOCKER
All test cases which use Docker as container manager.
APP
All test cases with specific APP use.
10.4.19. Container orchestration tags¶
K8S
All test cases which use Kubernetes for orchestration.
SFC_CONTROLLER
All test cases which use ligato/sfc_controller for driving configuration of vpp inside container.
VPP_AGENT
All test cases which use Golang implementation of a control/management plane for VPP
1VSWITCH
VPP running in Docker container acting as VSWITCH.
1VNF
1 VPP running in Docker container acting as VNF work load.
2VNF
2 VPP running in 2 Docker containers acting as VNF work load.
4VNF
4 VPP running in 4 Docker containers acting as VNF work load.
10.4.20. Multi-threading tags¶
STHREAD
All test cases using single poll mode thread.
MTHREAD
All test cases using more then one poll mode driver thread.
1NUMA
All test cases with packet processing on single socket.
2NUMA
All test cases with packet processing on two sockets.
SMT
All test cases with symmetric Multi-Threading (HyperThreading) enabled.
NOSMT
All test cases with symmetric Multi-Threading (HyperThreading) disabled.
1T1C
1 worker thread pinned to 1 dedicated physical core. 1 receive queue per interface. Main thread pinned to core 0.
2T2C
2 worker threads pinned to 2 dedicated physical cores. 1 receive queue per interface. Main thread pinned to core 0.
4T4C
4 worker threads pinned to 4 dedicated physical cores. 2 receive queues per interface. Main thread pinned to core 0.
6T6C
6 worker threads pinned to 6 dedicated physical cores. 3 receive queues per interface. Main thread pinned to core 0.
8T8C
8 worker threads pinned to 8 dedicated physical cores. 4 receive queues per interface. Main thread pinned to core 0.
10.4.21. Honeycomb tags¶
HC_FUNC
Honeycomb functional test cases.
HC_NSH
Honeycomb NSH test cases.
HC_PERSIST
Honeycomb persistence test cases.
HC_REST_ONLY
(Exclusion tag) Honeycomb test cases that cannot be run in Netconf mode using ODL client for Restfconf -> Netconf translation.