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Cross-NUMA tests as part of OPNFV Plugfest (Gambia) - January 2019..............
- VSPERF-ScenarioScenarios: P2P and PVP.
- Workloads: vSwitchd, PMDs and VNF.
- VNF: L2 Forwarding
- vswitch: OVS and VPP.
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Node-4 (DUT), Node-5 (Software Traffic Generators) and Ixia H/W Traffic Generator.
CPU Topology on DUT
P2P Scenarios
Summary of PVP Scenarios:
| Scenario | Possible Core-allocations: |
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21) Numa-1 ( |
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22-43) vSwitch Core #: 02 | DUT Ports, TGen (Hardware) Ports | |
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| 1 | PMDs: 4, 5 (0x30) | DUT: eno5, eno6 TGEN: 5, 6 |
| 2 | PMDs: 22, 23 (0xC00000) | DUT: eno5, eno6 TGEN: 5, 6 |
| 3 | PMDs: 4, 22 (0x400010) | DUT: eno5, eno6 TGEN: 5, 6 |
| 4 | PMDs: 4, 5 (0x30) | DUT: eno5, ens801f2 TGEN: 5, 7 |
| 5 | PMDs: 22, 23 (0xC00000) | DUT: eno5, ens801f2 TGEN: 5, 7 |
| 6 | PMDs: 4, 22 (0x400010) | DUT: eno5, ens801f2 TGEN: 5, 7 |
| 7 | PMDs: 4, 5 (0x30) | DUT: ens801f2, ens802f3 TGEN: 7, 8 |
| 8 | PMDs: 22, 23 (0xC00000) | DUT: ens801f2, ens802f3 TGEN: 7, 8 |
| 9 | PMDs: 4, 22 (0x400010) | DUT: ens801f2, ens802f3 TGEN: 7, 8 |
PVP Scenarios
Summary of PVP Scenarios:
Scenario | Possible Core-allocations: Assumptions: Numa-0 (0-21) Numa-1 (22-43) | DUT Ports TGen Ports (Hardware) | ||||||||||||||||||
1 | 31)DUT Ports TGen Ports (Hardware) | DUT Ports TGen Ports (Software) | T-Rex Config File to use: | DUT Config File to Use | Comments | 1 | vSwitch: 2 | PMDs: 4, 5, 6, 7 (0xF0) | VNF: 8,9 | DUT: eno5, eno6 TGEN: 5, 6 | DUT: eno3, eno4 TGEN: ens801f0, ens801f1 | 2 | vSwitch: 2 | PMDs: 4, 5, 6, 7 (0xF0) | VNF: 228, 239 | DUT: eno5, eno6 TGEN: 5, 6 | DUT: eno3, eno4 TGEN: ens801f0, ens801f1 | TGEN: /etc/trex_ens.yaml | S/W TGEN||
2 | vSwitch: 2 | PMDs: 4, 5, 6, 7 (0xF0) | VNF: 22, 23 | DUT: eno5, eno6 TGEN: 5, 6 | ||||||||||||||||
3 | vSwitch: 2 | PMDs: 4, 5, 6, 7 (0xF0) | VNF: 8, 22 | DUT: eno5, eno6 TGEN: 5, 6 | DUT: eno3, eno4 TGEN: ens801f0, ens801f1 | TGEN: /etc/trex_ens.yaml | ||||||||||||||
4 | vSwitch: 2 | PMDs: 4,5,22,23 (0xC00030) | VNF: 8,9 | DUT: eno5, ens801f2 TGEN: 5, 7 | DUT: eno3, ens801f0 TGEN: ens801f0, eno3 | TGEN: /etc/trex_ens_eno.yaml | ||||||||||||||
5 | vSwitch: 2 | PMDs: 4,5, 22, 23 (0xC00030) | VNF: 24, 25 | DUT: eno5, ens801f2 TGEN: 5, 7DUT: eno3, ens801f0 TGEN: ens801f0, eno3 | TGEN: /etc/trex_ens_eno.yaml | |||||||||||||||
6 | vSwitch: 2 | PMDs: 4, 5, 22, 23 (0xC00030) | VNF: 8, 24 | DUT: eno5, ens801f2 TGEN: 5, 7 | DUT: eno3, ens801f0 TGEN: ens801f0, eno3 | TGEN: /etc/trex_ens_eno.yaml | ||||||||||||||
7 | vSwitch: 2 | PMDs: 22, 23, 24, 25 (0x3C00000) | VNF: 26, 27 | DUT: ens801f2, ens802f3 TGEN: 7, 8 DUT: ens801f0, ens801f1 TGEN: eno3, eno4 | TGEN: /etc/trex_eno.yaml | Similar to 1? | ||||||||||||||
8 | vSwitch: 2 | PMDs: 22, 23, 24, 24 (0x3C00000) | VNF: 4,5 | DUT: ens801f2, ens802f3 TGEN: 7, 8 DUT: ens801f0, ens801f1 TGEN: eno3, eno4 | TGEN: /etc/trex_eno.yaml | Similar to 2? | ||||||||||||||
9 | vSwitch: 2 | PMDs: 22, 23, 24, 25 (0x3C00000) | VNFs: 4,26 | DUT: ens801f2, ens802f3 TGEN: 7, 8 | DUT: ens801f0, ens801f1 TGEN: eno3, eno4 | TGEN: /etc/trex_eno.yaml | Similar to 3? | |||||||||||||
Possible Variations
- Increase the Number of CPUs to 4 for the VNF.
- Phy2phy case (no VNF).
- Try different forwarding VNF
- Different Virtual Switch (VPP)
- RxQ Affinity.
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