CSIT-1908

Introduction

• Report History
• Report Structure
• Test Scenarios
• Physical Testbeds
  • 2-Node Xeon Skylake (2n-skx)
  • 3-Node Xeon Skylake (3n-skx)
  • 3-Node Xeon Haswell (3n-hsw)
  • 2-Node Atom Denverton (2n-dnv)
  • 3-Node Atom Denverton (3n-dnv)
  • 3-Node ARM TaiShan (3n-tsh)
• Test Methodology
  • Terminology
  • VPP Forwarding Modes
  • Tunnel Encapsulations
  • VPP Features
  • Data Plane Throughput
  • Packet Latency
  • Multi-Core Speedup
  • Reconfiguration Tests
  • VPP Startup Settings
  • KVM VMs vhost-user
  • LXC/DRC Container Memif
  • NFV Service Density
  • VPP_Device Functional
  • IPSec on Intel QAT
  • TRex Traffic Generator

VPP Performance

• Overview
  • Logical Topologies
  • Performance Tests Coverage
  • Performance Tests Naming
• Release Notes
  • Changes in CSIT-1908
  • Known Issues
• Packet Throughput
  • L2 Ethernet Switching
  • IPv4 Routing
  • IPv6 Routing
  • SRv6 Routing
  • IPv4 Tunnels
  • KVM VMs vhost-user
  • LXC/DRC Container Memif
  • IPSec IPv4 Routing
  • Virtual Topology System
• Speedup Multi-Core
  • L2 Ethernet Switching
  • IPv4 Routing
  • IPv6 Routing
  • SRv6 Routing
  • IPv4 Tunnels
  • KVM VMs vhost-user
  • LXC/DRC Container Memif
  • IPSec IPv4 Routing
  • Virtual Topology System
• Packet Latency
  • L2 Ethernet Switching
  • IPv4 Routing
  • IPv6 Routing
  • SRv6 Routing
  • IPv4 Tunnels
  • KVM VMs vhost-user
  • LXC/DRC Container Memif
• Soak Tests
• Reconfiguration Tests
  • VNF Service Chains
• NFV Service Density
  • VNF Service Chains
  • CNF Service Chains
  • CNF Service Pipelines
• HTTP and TCP/IP
  • Connections per second
  • Requests per second
• Comparisons
  • Current vs. Previous Release
  • 3n-Skx vs. 3n-Hsw Testbeds
  • 3n-Skx vs. 2n-Skx Testbeds
  • NICs Comparison
  • Soak Tests vs. NDR Tests
• Throughput Trending
• Test Environment
  • Physical Testbeds
  • Server Specifications
  • Pre-Test Server Calibration
  • Calibration Data - Haswell
  • Calibration Data - Skylake
  • Calibration Data - Denverton
  • SUT Settings - Linux
  • DUT Settings - VPP
  • TG Settings - TRex
• Documentation
  • Container Orchestration in CSIT
  • Test Code Documentation

DPDK Performance

• Overview
  • Logical Topologies
  • Performance Tests Coverage
• Release Notes
  • Changes in CSIT-1908
  • Known Issues
• Packet Throughput
  • Testpmd
  • L3fwd
• Packet Latency
  • Testpmd
  • L3fwd
• Comparisons
  • Current vs. Previous Release
  • 3n-Skx vs. 3n-Hsw Testbeds
  • 3n-Skx vs. 2n-Skx Testbeds
• Throughput Trending
• Test Environment
  • Physical Testbeds
  • Server Specifications
  • Pre-Test Server Calibration
  • Calibration Data - Haswell
  • Calibration Data - Skylake
  • SUT Settings - Linux
  • DUT Settings - DPDK
  • TG Settings - TRex
• Documentation

VPP Device

• Overview
  • Virtual Topologies
  • Functional Tests Coverage
  • Tests Naming
• Release Notes
  • Changes in CSIT-1908
  • Known Issues
• Integration Tests
  • Abstract
  • Overview
  • Physical Testbeds
  • Containers
  • Environment initialization
  • VF reservation
  • Network traffic isolation - Intel i40evf
  • Open tasks
  • Links
• Documentation

VPP Functional

• Overview
  • Virtual Topologies
  • Functional Tests Coverage
  • Functional Tests Naming
• Release Notes
  • Changes in CSIT-1908
  • Known Issues
• Test Environment
  • SUT Settings - VIRL Guest VM
  • SUT Settings - VIRL Guest OS Linux
  • DUT Settings - VPP
  • TG Settings - Scapy
• Documentation

Detailed Results

• VPP Throughput
  • 2n-skx
  • 3n-skx
  • 3n-hsw
  • 3n-tsh
  • 2n-dnv
  • 3n-dnv
• VPP MRR
  • 2n-skx
  • 3n-skx
  • 3n-hsw
  • 3n-tsh
  • 3n-dnv
  • 2n-dnv
• DPDK Throughput
  • 2n-skx
  • 3n-skx
  • 3n-hsw
• VPP Functional
  • Ubuntu
  • CentOS
• VPP Device
  • device

Test Configuration

• VPP Throughput
  • 2n-skx
  • 3n-skx
  • 3n-hsw
  • 3n-tsh
  • 2n-dnv
  • 3n-dnv
• VPP MRR
  • 2n-skx
  • 3n-skx
  • 3n-hsw
  • 3n-tsh
  • 3n-dnv
  • 2n-dnv
• VPP Functional
  • Ubuntu
  • CentOS
• VPP Device
  • device

Test Operational Data

• VPP Throughput
  • 2n-skx
  • 3n-skx
  • 3n-hsw
  • 3n-tsh
  • 2n-dnv
  • 3n-dnv

CSIT Framework Documentation

• Design
  • Design Hierarchy
  • Test Lifecycle Abstraction
  • RF Keywords Functional Classification
  • RF Keywords Naming Guidelines
  • Coding Guidelines
• Test Naming
  • Background
  • Naming Convention
  • Naming Examples
• Presentation and Analytics
  • Overview
  • Data
  • Data processing
  • Data presentation
  • Report generation
  • Continuous Performance Measurements and Trending
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • API
• CSIT RF Tags Descriptions
  • Testbed Topology Tags
  • Objective Tags
  • Environment Tags
  • NIC Model Tags
  • Scaling Tags
  • Test Category Tags
  • Performance Type Tags
  • Ethernet Frame Size Tags
  • Test Type Tags
  • NF Service Density Tags
  • Forwarding Mode Tags
  • Underlay Tags
  • Overlay Tags
  • Tagging Tags
  • Encapsulation Tags
  • Interface Tags
  • Feature Tags
  • Encryption Tags
  • Client-Workload Tags
  • Container Orchestration Tags
  • Multi-Threading Tags
  • Honeycomb Tags