Test Methodology

• Terminology
• Per Thread Resources
  • VPP Thread Configuration
  • DPDK Thread Configuration
• VPP Forwarding Modes
  • L2 Ethernet Switching
  • IPv4 Routing
  • IPv6 Routing
  • SRv6 Routing
• Data Plane Throughput
  • Data Plane Throughput Tests
    • MLRsearch Tests
      • Description
      • Usage
      • Details
    • MRR Tests
      • Description
      • Usage
      • Details
    • PLRsearch Tests
      • Description
      • Usage
      • Details
    • Generic Test Properties
  • MLRsearch Tests
    • Overview
    • Search Implementation
    • Implementation Deviations
  • MRR Throughput
  • PLRsearch
    • Motivation for PLRsearch
    • Generic Algorithm
      • Terms
    • FD.io CSIT Implementation Specifics
    • Bottom Line
    • Algorithmic Analysis
      • L2 patch
      • Vhost
      • Summary
• TRex Traffic Generator
  • Usage
  • Traffic modes
    • Stateless mode
    • Stateful mode
  • Traffic Continuity
    • Continuous traffic
    • Limited traffic
  • Traffic synchronicity
    • Synchronous traffic
    • Asynchronous traffic
  • Trafic profiles
    • Transactions
    • TPS multiplier
    • Duration stretching
    • Startup delay
  • Measuring Latency
• DUT state considerations
  • Stateful DUT configurations
    • Ramp-up trial
    • State Reset
    • DUT versus protocol ramp-up
  • Stateless DUT configuratons
  • DUT versus TG state
• Network Address Translation IPv4 to IPv4
  • NAT44 Prefix Bindings
    • NAT44 Session Scale
  • NAT44 Deterministic
  • NAT44 Endpoint-Dependent
  • Stateful traffic profiles
    • General considerations
      • Protocols
      • Programs
      • Instances
      • Sequencing
      • Transaction overlap
      • Delays
      • Keepalives
      • Transaction success
    • UDP CPS
    • TCP CPS
    • UDP TPUT
    • TCP TPUT
  • Ip4base tests
• Packet Latency
• Packet Flow Ordering
  • Incremental Ordering
  • Randomized Ordering
• Tunnel Encapsulations
  • IPv4 Tunnels
  • IPv6 Tunnels
• Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
  • IPsec with VPP Native SW Crypto
  • IPsec with Intel QAT HW
  • IPsec with Async Crypto Feature Workers
  • IPsec Uni-Directional Tests with VPP Native SW Crypto
• Access Control Lists
  • ACL Security-Groups
  • ACL MAC-IP
• Multi-Core Speedup
  • Intel Hyper-Threading (HT)
  • Multi-core Tests
• Hoststack Testing
  • TCP/IP with iperf3
  • UDP/IP with iperf3
  • QUIC/UDP/IP with vpp_echo
  • VSAP ab with nginx
• Generic Segmentation Offload Tests
  • Overview
  • GSO Test Topologies
  • VPP GSOtap Topology
    • VPP Configuration
    • iPerf3 Server Configuration
    • iPerf3 Client Configuration
  • VPP GSOvhost Topology
    • VPP Configuration
    • iPerf3 Server Configuration
    • iPerf3 Client Configuration
• Reconfiguration Tests
  • Overview
  • Current Implementation
  • Discussion
• VPP Startup Settings
  • Common Settings
  • Per Test Settings
• KVM VMs vhost-user
  • Image-VM
  • Kernel-VM
• Container Orchestration in CSIT
  • Overview
    • Linux Containers
    • Unprivileged Containers
    • Privileged Containers
    • Orchestrating Container Lifecycle Events
  • Container Orchestration Systems Used in CSIT
    • LXC
    • Docker
  • Implementation
    • Container Data Structure
    • Examples
    • Kubernetes
    • Tested Topologies
    • References
• LXC/DRC Container Memif
• NFV Service Density
  • Service Configurations
  • Thread-to-Core Mapping
• VPP_Device Functional
• Suite Generation
  • Autogen Library
  • Sources
    • Git Suites
    • Regenerate Script
    • Constants
    • Python Code
      • Testcase Templates
      • Testcase Argument Lists
      • Iteration Over Values
      • Hardcoded Exclusions
  • Non-Sources
    • Testbeds
      • Testbed Architecture
      • Testbed Size
      • Other Topology Info
    • Job specs
    • Bootstrap Scripts
• Testing in AWS EC2
  • AWS Performance Testbeds
  • AWS EC2 Instances
  • AWS EC2 Networking
  • CSIT Amazon Machine Images
  • AWS Deployments
    • Compatibility
    • Requirements
    • Deployment Example
    • Secrets & Credentials
      • Set credentials manually