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See ticket for output under containers for each distro. Ticket: VPP-1851 Type: docs Change-Id: I0d80dabeb30d92d09edffa503b05d5eef08313dc Signed-off-by: Paul Vinciguerra <pvinci@vinciconsulting.com>
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.. _performance:
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Performance
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One of the benefits of FD.io VPP is it's high performance on relatively low-power computing.
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Included are the following.
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* A high-performance user-space network stack designed for commodity hardware:
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- L2, L3 and L4 features and encapsulations.
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* Optimized packet interfaces supporting a multitude of use cases:
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- An integrated vhost-user backend for high speed VM-to-VM connectivity
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- An integrated memif container backend for high speed Container-to-Container connectivity
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- An integrated vhost based interface to punt packets to the Linux Kernel
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* The same optimized code-paths run execute on the host, and inside VMs and Linux containers
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* Leverages best-of-breed open source driver technology: `DPDK <https://www.dpdk.org/>`_
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* Tested at scale; linear core scaling, tested with millions of flows and mac addresses
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These features have been designed to take full advantage of common micro-processor optimization techniques, such as:
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* Reducing cache and TLS misses by processing packets in vectors
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* Realizing `IPC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_cycle>`_ gains with vector instructions such as: SSE, AVX and NEON
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* Eliminating mode switching, context switches and blocking, to always be doing useful work
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* Cache-lined aligned buffers for cache and memory efficiency
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Continuous System Integration and Testing (CSIT)
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The Continuous System Integration and Testing (CSIT) project provides functional and performance
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testing for FD.io VPP. This testing is focused on functional and performance regressions. The results
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are posted to `CSIT Test Report <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/>`_.
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For more about CSIT checkout the following links:
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* `CSIT Code Documentation <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/doc/overview.html>`_
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* `CSIT Test Overview <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/introduction/overview.html>`_
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* `VPP Performance Dashboard <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/introduction/index.html>`_
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CSIT Packet Throughput examples
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Following are pointers to a few of the CSIT test reports. The test's titles read like this:
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<packet size>-<number of threads><number of cores>-<test>-<interface type>
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For example the test with the title 64b-2t1c-l2switching-base-i40e is the
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test that does l2 switching using 64 byte packets, 2 threads, 1 core using an i40e
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interface.
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Here are a few examples:
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* `L2 Ethernet switching <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/vpp_performance_tests/packet_throughput_graphs/l2.html>`_
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* `IPv4 Routing <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/vpp_performance_tests/packet_throughput_graphs/ip4.html>`_
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* `IPv6 Routing <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/vpp_performance_tests/packet_throughput_graphs/ip6.html>`_
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Trending Throughput Graphs
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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These are some of the trending packet throughput graphs from the CSIT `trending dashboard <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/introduction/index.html>`_. **Please note that**, performance in the trending graphs will change on a nightly basis in line with the software development cycle:
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* `L2 Ethernet Switching Trending <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/trending/l2.html>`_
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* `IPv4 Routing Trending <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/trending/ip4.html>`_
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* `IPv6 Routing Trending <https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/trending/ip6.html>`_
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