LXC/DRC Container Memif

CSIT includes tests taking advantage of VPP memif virtual interface (shared memory interface) to interconnect VPP running in Containers. VPP vswitch instance runs in bare-metal user-mode handling NIC interfaces and connecting over memif (Slave side) to VPPs running in Linux Container or in Docker Container (DRC) configured with memif (Master side). LXCs and DRCs run in a priviliged mode with VPP data plane worker threads pinned to dedicated physical CPU cores per usual CSIT practice. All VPP instances run the same version of software. This test topology is equivalent to existing tests with vhost-user and VMs as described earlier in Logical Topologies.

In addition to above vswitch tests, a single memif interface test is executed. It runs in a simple topology of two VPP container instances connected over memif interface in order to verify standalone memif interface performance.

More information about CSIT LXC and DRC setup and control is available in Container Orchestration in CSIT.