About
VPP in guest with layer 2 and layer 3 vRouted traffic.
Does this mean vpp run in guest vm? There are lots needs for running vpp in
a vm as a VNF, the point is testing vpp routing performance in a vm with
vhost-user.
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| +--------------------+ |
| | VPP in Guest VM | |
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| | Routing form | |
| | eth0 to eth1 | |
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| ++-------+--+-------++ |
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| | eth0 | | eth1 | |
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| +---+---+ +---+---+ |
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| +-------+----------+-------+ |
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| | vSwitch, eg. OVS DPDK | |
| | | |
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+--+--+-------+---------+--------+-+--+
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| eth0 | | eth1 |
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+----+-----+ +-----+----+
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+----+-----+ +-----+----+
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| eth0 | | eth1 |
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+--+----------+---------+----------+---+
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| Traffic Generator |
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2016-11-17 9:06 GMT+08:00 Alec Hothan (ahothan) <[email protected]>:
> Few comments inline…
>
>
> On 11/16/16, 8:18 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of Thomas F
> Herbert" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> +Irene Liew from Intel
>
> On 11/15/2016 02:06 PM, Maciek Konstantynowicz (mkonstan) wrote:
>
> On 11 Nov 2016, at 13:58, Thomas F Herbert < <mailto:
> [email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/09/2016 07:39 AM, Maciek Konstantynowicz (mkonstan) wrote:
>
>
> Some inputs from my side with MK.
>
>
> On 8 Nov 2016, at 21:25, Thomas F Herbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> All:
>
> Soliciting opinions from people as to vhost-user testing scenarios and
> guest modes in
> fd.io <http://fd.io/> CSIT testing of VPP - vhost-user.
> I will forward to this mailing list as well as summarize any
> additional feedback.
>
> I asked some people that happen to be here at OVSCON as well as some
> Red Hat and Intel people. I am also including some people that are involved
> in upstream vhost-user work in DPDK.
> So far, I have the following feedback with an attempt to condense
> feedback and to keep the list small. If I left out anything, let me know.
>
> In addition to the PVP tests done now with small packets.
>
> We should standardize on a basic limited set of sizes: 64, IMIX, 1518
> bytes (this can be extended if needed to the list defined in RFC-2455)
>
>
> Testpmd in guest is OK for now.
>
>
> I’d like to suggest to define/document the testpmd config used for
> testing: testpmd options and config, VM (vcpu, RAM).
> Having a testpmd image capable of auto-configuring itself on the virtual
> interfaces at init time would also be good to have.
>
>
>
> MK: vhost should be tested also with IRQ drivers, not only PMD, e.g.
> Linux guest with kernel IP routing. It’s done today in CSIT functional
> tests in VIRL (no testpmd there).
>
>
>
> Yes, as long as testPMD in guest is in the suite to maximize perf test
>
>
> Agree. testpmd is already used in csit perf tests with vhost.
>
>
>
> 1 Add multiple VMs (How many?)
>
>
>
>
>
> MK: For performance test, we should aim for a box-full, so for 1vCPU
> VMs fill up all cores :)
>
>
> This will depend on the testpmd settings (mostly number of vCPU).
> I’d suggest a minimum of 10 chains (10 x PVP) and 2 networks per chain.
>
>
>
> 2 Both multi-queue and single-queue
>
>
>
>
> MK: vhost single-queue for sure. vhost multi-queue seems to matter
> only to huge VMs that generate lots of traffic and coming close to
> overloading worker thread dealing with it.
>
> +1 for both single and multi-queue
>
>
> 3 Tests that cause the equivalent of multiple flows in OVS. Varying
> variety of traffic including layer 2 and layer 3 traffic.
>
>
>
>
> MK: Yes. Many flows is must.
>
> 4 Multiple IF's (Guest or Host or Both?)
>
>
>
>
> MK: What do you mean by multiple IF’s (interfaces)? With multiple VMs
> we surely have multiple vhost interfaces, minimum 2 vhost interfaces per
> VM. What matters IMV is the ratio and speed between: i) physical interfaces
> 10GE, 40GE; and ii) vhost interfaces with
> slow or fast VMs. I suggest we work few scenarios covering both i)
> and ii), and number of VMs, based on use cases folks have.
>
>
> Most deployments will have a limited number of physical interfaces per
> compute node. One interface or 2 bonded interfaces per compute node.
> The number of vhost interfaces is going to be an order of magnitude
> larger. With the example of 10 VMs and 2 networks per VM, that’s 20 vhost
> interfaces for 1 phys interface.
> Of course there might be special configs with very different requirements
> (large oversubscription of VMs, or larger number of phys interfaces) but I
> think the 10 x PVP with 20 vhost interfaces and 1 phys interface use case
> looks like a good starting point.
>
>
> I am copying this to Franck. I am not sure whether he was asking for
> multiple PHY PMDs or more then 2 IFs per guest. I think that multiple
> guests with 2 IFs each should be a pretty good test to start with.
>
>
> OK. Any more feedback here from anybody?
>
>
>
> The following might not be doable by 17.01 and if not consider the
> following as a wish list for future:
>
> 1 vxLan tunneled traffic
>
>
>
>
> MK: Do you mean VXLAN on the wire, VPP (running in host) does VXLAN
> tunnel termination (VTEP) into L2BD, and then L2 switching into VMs via
> vhost? If so, that’s the most common requirement I hear from folks e.g.
> OPNFV/FDS.
>
>
>
> I am not sure whether Franck was suggesting VTEP or whether he wanted
> encap and decap of L3 vxlan or whether he was asking for forwarding rules
> in guest and not just layer 2 MAC forwarding.
>
>
> We need to cover the openstack vxlan overlay case: VTEP in the vswitch,
> everythying below the vswitch is VxLAN traffic, everything above the VTEP
> is straight L2 forwarding to the vhost interfaces.
>
>
>
> OK. Any more feedback here from anybody?
>
>
> 2 VPP in guest with layer 2 and layer 3 vRouted traffic.
>
>
> MK: What do you mean here? VPP in guest with dpdk-virtio (instead of
> testpmd), and VPP in host with vhost ?
>
> Yes, VPP in host. I think some folks are looking for a test that
> approximates a routing VNF but I am forwarding this for Franck's comment
>
>
> OK. Any more feedback here from anybody?
>
> 3 Additional Overlay/Underlay: MPLS
>
> MK: MPLSoEthernet?, MPLSoGRE? VPNv4, VPNv6? Else?
> MK: L2oLISP, IPv4oLISP, IPv6oLISP.
>
>
>
> MPLSoEthernet
>
>
> But what VPP configuration - just MPLS label switching (LSR), or VPN
> edge (LER aka PE) ?
>
>
>
> I don't have the answer. Maybe Franck or Anita may want to comment.
>
> In general, the context for my comment is wrt to perf testing of VPP
> vs DPDK/OVS and other vSwitches/data planes. Current testing is optimized
> for multiple layer 2 flows. If we are passing and forwarding tunneled or
> encapped traffic in the VM, even if we don't
> terminate a VTEP, we are closer to real world VNF use cases, and may
> provide a better basis perf comparisons for Telcos and similar users.
>
>
>
> On the OpenStack front, we need to stay focused first on L2 switching
> performance in the vswitch between physical interfaces, potentially virtual
> interfaces such as vxlan tunnels and vhost interfaces.
>
> Thanks
>
> Alec
>
>
>
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