Release Notes

Changes in CSIT-2302

  1. VPP PERFORMANCE TESTS

    • Enhanced and added VPP hoststack tests to daily and weekly trending including: Quic VPP Echo, UDP+TCP LD_PRELOAD iPerf3, LD_PRELOAD NGINX.

    • Added Nvidia/Mellanox DPDK tests to daily and weekly trending and report, in addition to RDMA_CORE ones that were already there.

    • Jumbo frames tests got fixed and re-added number of to report coverage tests.

    • Intel Xeon SKX performance testbeds got decommissioned and removed from FD.io performance lab.

  2. TEST FRAMEWORK

    • CSIT test environment version has not changed from ver. 11 used in previous release, see Environment Versioning.

    • CSIT PAPI optimizations for scale got applied improving PAPI programming speed especially for large scale tests. VAT has been now completely deprecated from CSIT.

    • General Code Housekeeping: Ongoing code optimizations and bug fixes.

  3. PRESENTATION AND ANALYTICS LAYER

Known Issues

New

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JiraID

Issue Description

1

VPP-2070

CSIT rdma 4c tests fail on 2n-zn2. Memory alignment issue caused by a recent VPP merge.

2

CSIT-1876

1n-aws: TRex NDR PDR ALL IP4 scale and L2 scale tests failing with 50% packet loss. AWS perhaps changed its policy.

3

CSIT-1901

3n-icx: negative ipackets on TB38 AVF 4c l2patch Hardware or TRex issue.

Fixed

Issues reported in previous releases which were fixed in this release:

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JiraID

Issue Description

1

CSIT-1799

All NAT44-ED 16M sessions CPS scale tests fail while setting NAT44 address range.

2

CSIT-1827

3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive packet loss.

3

CSIT-1835

3n-icx: QUIC vppecho BPS tests failing on timeout when checking hoststack finished.

4

CSIT-1885

3n-icx: 9000b ip4 ip6 l2 NDRPDR AVF tests are failing to forward traffic.

Root Cause Analysis for Performance Changes

List of RCAs in CSIT-2302 for VPP performance changes:

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JiraID

Issue Description

1

CSIT-1902

3n-alt: Changed performance in VXLAN and IPsec tests.

2

VPP-2072

RSS is not deterministic on Intel-E822CQ NIC.