CSIT/csit1810 plan

This page contains a snapshot in time of FD.io CSIT project work and is updated regularly by hand but not in real-time. Near real-time information is available in FD.io CSIT code repository and auto-generated docs.

Introduction

This page tracks release information for FD.io CSIT-18.10.

Release Milestones

Milestone	Date	Deliverables
F0	2018-10-03	Test case keywords code complete. Only low-risk changes accepted.
RC1	2018-10-10 (F0+7)	Code complete. Pull first release branch. Only bug fixes accepted in release branch. Date aligned with VPP RC1.
RC2	2018-10-17 (RC1+7)	Dry-run testing begins of VPP RC2, performance and functional. Date aligned with VPP RC2.
CSIT Release	2018-10-24 (RC2+7)	CSIT release complete. VPP release testing starts. Date aligned with VPP Formal Release.
Report Publish	2018-11-07 (Rls+14)	CSIT report published for VPP release.

Release Deliverables

Name	Status	Jira Category	Description
2n-skx Tests	WIP	1810-Test	Adding performamce tests to run on 2n-skx (2-Node Xeon Skylake) testbeds, reach coverage parity with 3n-skx (3-Node Xeon Skylake).
VPP_Device	WIP	1810-Framework	New CI/CD system design and implementation of Container based VPP and Hardware device integration tests running on 1-Node testbeds: 1n-skx, 1n-arm.
VPP_Path	Open	1810-Framework	Continuing migration of CSIT VIRL tests to VPP-make_test VPP integration tests for functional acceptance of VPP feature path(s) driven by use case(s). See P1 and P2 markup in VPP_Path: CSIT_VIRL migration progress.
Performance trending PAL evolution	WIP	1810-PAL	Make PAL use new Burst MRR trending tests once productized for better anomaly detection.
Performance change detection	WIP	1810-Framework	Introduction of Burst MRR tests to trending.
Per VPP patch performance tests	WIP	1810-Framework	Per VPP patch vs. parent performance tests and voting (-1/0/+1).
Clock cycles per VPP node into CSIT-PAL	Open	1810-PAL	Use the new VPP stats infra to retrieve runtime counters instead of using "show run".

Jira Task Tracking

All CSIT release deliverables should be tracked in FDio CSIT Jira using one of the following Jira Epic categories:

1. CSIT Framework
2. Operations
3. Test
4. PAL
5. VIRL
6. HoneyComb
7. [DMM]

Multi-Release Work Areas

Work Area	Description
Xeon Skx testbeds	Make Skylake performance test coverage complete: i) Boost tests in 2-Node setups, complete 3-Node setups; ii) Complete Memif/Container and Vhost-user/VM with latest greatest QEMU etc; iii) Push vpp-dev to Ubuntu 18.04.
Arm testbeds	Introduce Arm performance tests. Machines
Atom testbeds	Introduce Atom performance tests.
Better vhost, memif coverage	Make CSIT produce more complete test data for scaled-out Vhost-user/VM and Memif/Container: i) Complete same packet paths and topologies for a low number of VMs and Containers, then scale-up VM and Container numbers; ii) See if we can isolate the actual cost of Vhostuser-virtio and Memif-Memif virtual interfaces based on the test and system telemetry.
VPP per patch performance tests	Productise per VPP patch performance tests with change detection, prepare for voting: i) Improve detection accuracy and precision; ii) Nail down current results variance; iii) Apply improvements to continuous trending and (future) git auto-bisection.
Evolve throughput search	Build upon MLRsearch experience vs. ordinary binary search: i) New POC for extended soak test for validating NDR (zero packet-loss-ratio PLR) and(?) PDR (non-zero PLR).
General enhancements	General CSIT and VPP performance test and infrastructure enhancements: i) Productize VPP_Device container-based functional tests in 1-Node Skylake testbeds, assist with the same for Arm; ii) Add proper packet latency measurements with T-Rex HDRhistogram, push T-Rex to productize HDRh'gram; iii) Start using the new VPP stats infra for per test counters and "gauges" collection incl. "show runtime", instead of VPP show CLI; iv) Start migration from VAT to VPP Python API; v) Nail down "broken"/not-performing VPP data plane feature arcs (incl. multi-threading) indicated by CSIT-18.07 results data.

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