Release Notes

Changes in CSIT-2005

  1. DPDK PERFORMANCE TESTS

    • Refactor of CSIT initialization helper scripts for DPDK testpmd and l3fwd. Removing obsolete parameters from DPDK testpmd and l3fwd command line.

    • Fixed 9000B L2 packet size tests not passing for all NICs.

    • Fixed DPDK compilation and test initialization of Mellanox NICs using CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_PMD=y in compile configuration.

  2. DPDK RELEASE VERSION CHANGE

    • CSIT-2005 tested DPDK-20.02, as used by VPP-20.05 release.

Known Issues

List of known issues in CSIT-2005 for DPDK performance tests:

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JiraID

Issue Description

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CSIT-1701

DPDK L3fwd tests with 9000B L2 packet size are not passing with Mellanox NICs. L3fwd application does not accept parameter for increasing -mbuf-size in same way DPDK testpmd does.