VPP Usability Track

Goals

1. VPP working out of the box for most/all baseline use cases.
2. Profiled by target VPP consumers - use cases, users.
   • Use1 - OPNFV/FDS
   • Use2 - Programmable Virtual Forwarder
   • Use3 - OpenStack NFVI
   • Use4 - vSwitch for VMs

VPP Use Case Requirements

Functional requirements of target VPP consumers - wip - current snapshot:

1. Use1 - OPNFV/FDS - VXLAN+L2BD+vhost, VLAN+L2BD+vhost, BVI, VRF, IPv4, IPv6, SNAT, ACL/classifier
2. Use2 - Programmable Virtual Forwarder - VXLAN+L2BD+vhost, IPv4, IPv6, more TBC
3. Use3 - OpenStack NFVI - VXLAN+L2BD+vhost
4. Use4 - vSwitch for VMs - VLAN+L2BD+vhost, high-density VNF VMs (30VMs, 102vhost)

VPP User Guide - Outline

Outline of user guide that needs to be produced:

1. Installation per Linux distro - Ubuntu, Centos, RHEL, other - Ed, Sean
   • Packaging
     • https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Installing_VPP_binaries_from_packages#CentOS_7.2_-_VPP_master_branch_RPMs_.28in_development.29
     • sudo yum install vpp-python-api
   • Manual install - ??
   • Automated install - Ed, Sean
     • see outline in email Ed, Sean "Re: 161026-vpp-usability-review - note", 27 October 2016 at 22:39:47 BST
2. Environment - MK, FB
   • <complete the list of areas and combinations>
   • Linux environment fundamentals
   • SW Dependencies
     • Linux kernel ver
     • QEMU ver
     • DPDK ver
   • HW Dependencies
     • x86_64 microarchitectures
     • NICs
3. Initial configuration - MK, PM, DM for questions
   • Startup configuration - startup.conf ...
   • Interfaces
4. Optimizing VPP performance - MK, PM, PF&DM for questions
   • Tuning performance
   • VM and vhost-user considerations
   • Useful host performance telemetry
   • Useful VPP performance telemetry
5. Sample use cases - Chris Metz with team will work it
   • L2 switching
     • with VMs (vhost)
     • with tunnels (vxlan, lisp-gpe)
     • with security-groups
   • IP routed forwarding
     • with VMs (vhost)
     • with tunnels (vxlan, lisp-gpe)
     • with security-filters - iacl, cop-whitelist, cop-blacklist
   • <add more>
   • <structure differently?>
6. Doc Generation and Online Presentation
   • Consider readthedocs approach
     • Based on sphinx using readthedocs theme
     • Used today by dpdk doc

Programmer's Guide - Outline

Programmer's guide - KRB for TOC, OT to help

1. VPP API guide

VPP Performance Considerations

Here initial points to be addressed for optimizing VPP performance on specific compute HW configurations:

1. cpu core configuration and vpp thread mappings
   • phy interfaces can be placed to thread/core
   • vhost interfaces are round-robined - new feature for placement
     • do after multi-queue patch by Pierre
2. vhost - qsz, cpu jitter, reconnect, interop qemu-virtio
   • hard to install, doesn't work all the time, crashes
3. dpdk - performance with selection of NICs
   • more detailed documentation about baremetal installations
     • vs. just Vagrant
   • dpdk new rls setup recommendations - per NIC basis
   • dpdk.org is not publishing performance numbers
   • csit can't address it - need manual tests and analysis
4. vpp self-diagnostics for optimal setup verification

Minimal setup installation for vhost+VM connectivity

Minimal setup installation for vhost+VM connectivity:

1. TRex
2. ansible scripts developed in CSIT
3. Consumability of CSIT-perf RF and python libraries

Important Test Areas

Listing of important areas to increase VPP test coverage -MK

1. negative tests - add/remove interfaces/routes/MAC entries
2. box-full tests NIC-NIC
3. box-full tests NIC-VM-NIC
4. stress-tests - add/remove VMs
5. negative weird setups - mixed L2BD, IRB, IPv4, IPv6 forwarding
6. soak-tests
7. tap devices - add/remove
8. negative stress/weird tests

VPP Diagnostics and telemetry

Following VPP diagnostics and telemetry aspects need to be addressed:

1. live health and performance metrics
   • compute HW
   • Linux kernel
   • VM guest
2. collectd + influxdb + grafana
   • VPP interface counters
   • VPP vector size