187. Benchmark the performance of VF single core forwarding

187.1. Prerequisites

  1. Nic single core performance test requirements:

    1.1) Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710-DA2:

    two dual port Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 nics,all installed on the same socket, pick one port per nic.

    1.2) 82599/500 Series 10G:

    four 82599 nics, all installed on the same socket, pick one port per nic.

    1.3) Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-CQDA2:

    one Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-CQDA2 nics, all installed on the same socket, pick one port per nic.

  2. Software:

    dpdk: git clone http://dpdk.org/git/dpdk
scapy: http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/
dts (next branch): git clone http://dpdk.org/git/tools/dts,
                   then "git checkout next"
Trex code: http://trex-tgn.cisco.com/trex/release/v2.84.tar.gz
           (to be run in stateless Layer 2 mode, see section in
            Getting Started Guide for more details)
python-prettytable:
    apt install python-prettytable (for ubuntu os)
    or dnf install python-prettytable (for fedora os).

  3. Connect all the selected nic ports to traffic generator(IXIA,TREX, PKTGEN) ports(TG ports):

    2 TG 25g  ports for Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 ports
4 TG 10g  ports for 4 82599/500 Series 10G ports
1 TG 100g ports for Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-CQDA2 port

187.2. Test Case : Vf Single Core Performance Measurement

  1. Bind PF ports to kernel driver, i40e/ixgbe/ice, then create 1 VF from each PF, take XXV710 for example:

    echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:af\:00.0/sriov_numvfs
echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:b1\:00.1/sriov_numvfs

  2. Set vf mac address:

    ip link set ens5f0 vf 0 mac 00:12:34:56:78:01
ip link set ens6f0 vf 0 mac 00:12:34:56:78:02

  3. Bind all the created VFs to dpdk driver, vfio-pci or igb_uio:

    ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci af:02.0 b1:02.0

  4. Start testpmd:

    ./<build_target>/app/dpdk-testpmd -l 28,29 -n 4 -- -i --portmask=0x3  --txd=512 --rxd=512 \
--txq=2 --rxq=2 --nb-cores=1

testpmd> set fwd mac
testpmd> start

  5. Configure traffic generator to send traffic:

    dst mac: peer nic port mac
src ip : random
dst ip : fixed
frame size: 64 byte
transmit rate: 100%

  6. Result tables.

    Fwd_core Frame Size TXD/RXD Throughput Rate Expected Throughput
    1C/1T 64 512 xxxxx Mpps xxx % xxxxxxx Mpps
    1C/1T 64 2048 xxxxx Mpps xxx % xxxxxxx Mpps
    1C/2T 64 512 xxxxx Mpps xxx % xxxxxxx Mpps
    1C/2T 64 2048 xxxxx Mpps xxx % xxxxxxx Mpps
Check throughput and compare it with the expected value. Case will raise failure if actual throughputs have more than 1Mpps gap from expected ones.
Note :
The values for the expected throughput may vary due to different platform and OS, and traffic generator, please correct threshold values accordingly.