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diff --git a/docs/results/yardstick-opnfv-vtc.rst b/docs/results/yardstick-opnfv-vtc.rst index 50eb414bb..768cb69df 100644 --- a/docs/results/yardstick-opnfv-vtc.rst +++ b/docs/results/yardstick-opnfv-vtc.rst @@ -2,10 +2,14 @@ .. License. .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 +.. _Dashboard006: http://testresults.opnfv.org/grafana/dashboard/db/yardstick-tc006 +.. _Dashboard007: http://testresults.opnfv.org/grafana/dashboard/db/yardstick-tc007 +.. _Dashboard020: http://testresults.opnfv.org/grafana/dashboard/db/yardstick-tc020 +.. _Dashboard021: http://testresults.opnfv.org/grafana/dashboard/db/yardstick-tc021 -=================================== -Test Results for yardstick-opnfv-ha -=================================== +==================================== +Test Results for yardstick-opnfv-vtc +==================================== .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 @@ -23,16 +27,184 @@ Overview of test results .. general on metrics collected, number of iterations +The virtual Traffic Classifier (vtc) Scenario supported by Yardstick is used by 4 Test Cases: + +- TC006 +- TC007 +- TC020 +- TC021 + + +* TC006 + +TC006 is the Virtual Traffic Classifier Data Plane Throughput Benchmarking Test. +It collects measures about the end-to-end throughput supported by the +virtual Traffic Classifier (vTC). +Results of the test are shown in the Dashboard006_ +The throughput is expressed as percentage of the available bandwidth on the NIC. + + +* TC007 + +TC007 is the Virtual Traffic Classifier Data Plane Throughput Benchmarking in presence of +noisy neighbors Test. +It collects measures about the end-to-end throughput supported by the +virtual Traffic Classifier when a user-defined number of noisy neighbors is deployed. +Results of the test are shown in the Dashboard007_ +The throughput is expressed as percentage of the available bandwidth on the NIC. + + +* TC020 + +TC020 is the Virtual Traffic Classifier Instantiation Test. +It verifies that a newly instantiated vTC is alive and functional and its instantiation +is correctly supported by the underlying infrastructure. +Results of the test are shown in the Dashboard020_ + + +* TC021 + +TC021 is the Virtual Traffic Classifier Instantiation in presence of noisy neighbors Test. +It verifies that a newly instantiated vTC is alive and functional and its instantiation +is correctly supported by the underlying infrastructure when noisy neighbors are present. +Results of the test are shown in the Dashboard021_ + + Detailed test results --------------------- -.. info on lab, installer, scenario +* TC006 + +The results for TC006 have been obtained using the following test case +configuration: + +- Context: Dummy +- Scenario: vtc_throughput +- Network Techology: SR-IOV +- vTC Flavor: m1.large + + +* TC007 + +The results for TC007 have been obtained using the following test case +configuration: + +- Context: Dummy +- Scenario: vtc_throughput_noisy +- Network Techology: SR-IOV +- vTC Flavor: m1.large +- Number of noisy neighbors: 2 +- Number of cores per neighbor: 2 +- Amount of RAM per neighbor: 1G + + +* TC020 + +The results for TC020 have been obtained using the following test case +configuration: + +The results listed in previous section have been obtained using the following +test case configuration: + +- Context: Dummy +- Scenario: vtc_instantiation_validation +- Network Techology: SR-IOV +- vTC Flavor: m1.large + + +* TC021 + +The results listed in previous section have been obtained using the following +test case configuration: + +- Context: Dummy +- Scenario: vtc_instantiation_validation +- Network Techology: SR-IOV +- vTC Flavor: m1.large +- Number of noisy neighbors: 2 +- Number of cores per neighbor: 2 +- Amount of RAM per neighbor: 1G + + +For all the test cases, the user can specify different values for the parameters. Rationale for decisions ----------------------- -.. result analysis, pass/fail + +* TC006 + +The result of the test is a number between 0 and 100 which represents the percentage of bandwidth +available on the NIC that corresponds to the supported throughput by the vTC. + + +* TC007 + +The result of the test is a number between 0 and 100 which represents the percentage of bandwidth +available on the NIC that corresponds to the supported throughput by the vTC. + +* TC020 + +The execution of the test is done as described in the following: + +- The vTC is deployed on the OpenStack testbed; +- Some traffic is sent to the vTC; +- The vTC changes the header of the packets and sends them back to the packet generator; +- The packet generator checks that all the packets are received correctly and have been changed +correctly by the vTC. + +The test is declared as PASSED if all the packets are correcly received by the packet generator +and they have been modified by the virtual Traffic Classifier as required. + + +* TC021 + +The execution of the test is done as described in the following: + +- The vTC is deployed on the OpenStack testbed; +- The noisy neighbors are deployed as requested by the user; +- Some traffic is sent to the vTC; +- The vTC change the header of the packets and sends them back to the packet generator; +- The packet generator checks that all the packets are received correctly and have been changed +correctly by the vTC + +The test is declared as PASSED if all the packets are correcly received by the packet generator +and they have been modified by the virtual Traffic Classifier as required. + Conclusions and recommendations ------------------------------- -.. did the expected behavior occured? +* TC006 + +The obtained results show that the virtual Traffic Classifier can support up to 4 Gbps +(40% of the available bandwidth) correspond to the expected behaviour of the virtual +Traffic Classifier. +Using the configuration with SR-IOV and large flavor, the expected throughput should +generally be in the range between 3 and 4 Gbps. + + +* TC007 + +These results correspond to the configuration in which the virtual Traffic Classifier uses SR-IOV +Virtual Functions and the flavor is set to large for the virtual machine. +The throughput is in the range between 2.5 Gbps and 3.7 Gbps. +This shows that the effect of 2 noisy neighbors reduces the throughput of +the service between 10 and 20%. +Increasing number of neihbours would have a higher impact on the performance. + + +* TC020 + +The obtained results correspond to the expected behaviour of the virtual Traffic Classifier. +Using the configuration with SR-IOV and large flavor, the expected result is that the vTC is +correctly instantiated, it is able to receive and send packets using SR-IOV technology +and to forward packets back to the packet generator changing the TCP/IP header as required. + + +* TC021 + +The obtained results correspond to the expected behaviour of the virtual Traffic Classifier. +Using the configuration with SR-IOV and large flavor, the expected result is that the vTC is +correctly instantiated, it is able to receive and send packets using SR-IOV technology +and to forward packets back to the packet generator changing the TCP/IP header as required, +also in presence of noisy neighbors. |