[dts] [PATCH V1] test_plans: add test plan for vhost pvp performance test case based on qemu

Liu, Yong yong.liu at intel.com
Mon Dec 19 06:58:30 CET 2016


Lei, few comments as below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dts [mailto:dts-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Yao Lei
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 1:34 PM
> To: dts at dpdk.org
> Cc: Yao, Lei A
> Subject: [dts] [PATCH V1] test_plans: add test plan for vhost pvp
> performance test case based on qemu
> 
> From: lei yao <lei.a.yao at intel.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: lei yao <lei.a.yao at intel.com>
> ---
>  .../vhost_qemu_pvp_performance_test_plan.rst       | 137
> +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 137 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 test_plans/vhost_qemu_pvp_performance_test_plan.rst
> 
> diff --git a/test_plans/vhost_qemu_pvp_performance_test_plan.rst
> b/test_plans/vhost_qemu_pvp_performance_test_plan.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..182f79a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/test_plans/vhost_qemu_pvp_performance_test_plan.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
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> +===========================================
> +DPDK Vhost Qemu pvp performance test plan
> +===========================================
> +
> +This test plan will cover the PVP performance test cases based on qemu
> settings
> +
> +Test Case 1: DPDK PVP performance on Mergeable path 

Please keep same capital case, Mergeable should be mergeable.

> +=====================================================================
> +
Please keep header line the same length of case's name. 


> +Flow:
> +TG(Traffic generator) --> NIC --> Vhost --> Virtio--> Vhost--> NIC--> TG
> +
> +On host:
> +
> +1. first build the vhost-switch sample.

Should be "First"

> +
> +2. Start up vhost-switch, mergeable 0 means the jubmo frame feature is
> disabled. vm2vm 0 means only one vm without vm2vm communication. Use 3core
> to launch the sample will get the best performance, 2 core will be used
> for data path, one core is master core for some configuration.::
> +
Please keep one line in 79 characters.


> +    taskset -c 18-20 ./vhost-switch -c 0x1c0000 -n 4 --huge-dir /mnt/huge
> --socket-mem 1024,1024 -- -p 0x1 --mergeable 0 --vm2vm 0 --socket-
> file ./vhost-net
> +
Same, please keep one line in 79 characters.

> +
> +3. Start VM with vhost-user as backend, add 2 virtio devices::
> +
> +    taskset -c 22-26 \
> +    qemu-system-x86_64 -name vm1 \
> +     -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 2048 -object memory-backend-
> file,id=mem,size=2048M,mem-path=/mnt/huge,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem -
> mem-prealloc \
> +     -smp cores=5,sockets=1 -drive file=/home/osimg/f23_liu.img  \
> +     -chardev socket,id=char0,path=./vhost-net \
> +     -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char0,vhostforce,queues=1
> \
> +     -device virtio-net-
> pci,mac=52:54:00:00:00:01,netdev=mynet1,mrg_rxbuf=on,mq=on \
> +     -netdev tap,id=ipvm1,ifname=tap4,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -device
> rtl8139,netdev=ipvm1,id=net0,mac=00:00:00:00:10:01 -vnc :10 -daemonize
> +
> +
> +4. On VM1, ensure the same dpdk folder is copied and run testpmd, virtio
> device is binded to igb_uio, use txqflags=0xf01 :

Could you please explain a bit why txqflags is 0xf01?


> +    ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0x3 -n 4 -- -i --
> txqflags=0xf01
> +    testpmd>start
> +
> +5. Send traffic to virtio device. DEST MAC as virtio1's MAC, VLAN ID as
> virtio1's VLAN. Measure the Performance.
> +
Please give some description about how to strip MAC and vlan. 

> +
> +Test Case 2: DPDK PVP performance on Normal path
> +=====================================================================
> +
> +Flow:
> +TG(Traffic generator) --> NIC --> Vhost --> Virtio--> Vhost--> NIC--> TG
> +
> +On host:
> +
> +1. first build the vhost-switch sample.
> +
> +2. Start up vhost-switch, mergeable 0 means the jubmo frame feature is
> disabled. vm2vm 0 means only one vm without vm2vm communication. Use 3core
> to launch the sample will get the best performance, 2 core will be used
> for data path, one core is master core for some configuration.::
> +
> +    taskset -c 18-20 ./vhost-switch -c 0x1c0000 -n 4 --huge-dir /mnt/huge
> --socket-mem 1024,1024 -- -p 0x1 --mergeable 0 --vm2vm 0 --socket-
> file ./vhost-net
> +
> +
> +3. Start VM with vhost-user as backend, add 2 virtio devices::
> +
> +    taskset -c 22-26 \
> +    qemu-system-x86_64 -name vm1 \
> +     -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 2048 -object memory-backend-
> file,id=mem,size=2048M,mem-path=/mnt/huge,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem -
> mem-prealloc \
> +     -smp cores=5,sockets=1 -drive file=/home/osimg/f23_liu.img  \
> +     -chardev socket,id=char0,path=./vhost-net \
> +     -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char0,vhostforce,queues=1
> \
> +     -device virtio-net-
> pci,mac=52:54:00:00:00:01,netdev=mynet1,mrg_rxbuf=off,mq=on \
> +     -netdev tap,id=ipvm1,ifname=tap4,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -device
> rtl8139,netdev=ipvm1,id=net0,mac=00:00:00:00:10:01 -vnc :10 -daemonize
> +
> +
> +4. On VM1, ensure the same dpdk folder is copied and run testpmd, virtio
> device is binded to igb_uio, use txqflags=0xf01 :
> +    ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0x3 -n 4 -- -i --
> txqflags=0xf00
> +    testpmd>start
> +
> +5. Send traffic to virtio device. DEST MAC as virtio1's MAC, VLAN ID as
> virtio1's VLAN. Measure the Performance.
> +
> +Test Case 3: DPDK PVP performance on Vector path
> +=====================================================================
> +
> +Flow:
> +TG(Traffic generator) --> NIC --> Vhost --> Virtio--> Vhost--> NIC--> TG
> +
> +On host:
> +
> +1. first build the vhost-switch sample.
> +
> +2. Start up vhost-switch, mergeable 0 means the jubmo frame feature is
> disabled. vm2vm 0 means only one vm without vm2vm communication. Use 3core
> to launch the sample will get the best performance, 2 core will be used
> for data path, one core is master core for some configuration.::
> +
> +    taskset -c 18-20 ./vhost-switch -c 0x1c0000 -n 4 --huge-dir /mnt/huge
> --socket-mem 1024,1024 -- -p 0x1 --mergeable 0 --vm2vm 0 --socket-
> file ./vhost-net
> +
> +
> +3. Start VM with vhost-user as backend, add 2 virtio devices::
> +
> +    taskset -c 22-26 \
> +    qemu-system-x86_64 -name vm1 \
> +     -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 2048 -object memory-backend-
> file,id=mem,size=2048M,mem-path=/mnt/huge,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem -
> mem-prealloc \
> +     -smp cores=5,sockets=1 -drive file=/home/osimg/f23_liu.img  \
> +     -chardev socket,id=char0,path=./vhost-net \
> +     -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char0,vhostforce,queues=1
> \
> +     -device virtio-net-
> pci,mac=52:54:00:00:00:01,netdev=mynet1,mrg_rxbuf=off,mq=on \
> +     -netdev tap,id=ipvm1,ifname=tap4,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -device
> rtl8139,netdev=ipvm1,id=net0,mac=00:00:00:00:10:01 -vnc :10 -daemonize
> +
> +
> +4. On VM1, ensure the same dpdk folder is copied and run testpmd, virtio
> device is binded to igb_uio, use txqflags=0xf01 :
> +    ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0x3 -n 4 -- -i --
> txqflags=0xf01
> +    testpmd>start
> +
> +5. Send traffic to virtio device. DEST MAC as virtio1's MAC, VLAN ID as
> virtio1's VLAN. Measure the Performance.
> --
> 2.7.4



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