====== VSWITCHPERF Tests to be defined ======
The test scratchpad (for tests that are WIP/being defined/looked at by the community) can be found here: https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/vSwitchTestsDrafts 

===== Performance tests to be defined list =====

^ Test                                                                                                                                 ^ Priority  ^ JIRA  ^
| Scalability Tests adding More VMs in succession and building a performance profile as we add more VMs.                               |    1     |  [[ https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/VSPERF-238 |  238 ]]  |
| OverlayNetworking Tests: VXLAN performance testing, encap, decap, encap and decap                                                    |    1     |    [[ https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/VSPERF-241 |   241 ]]   |
| Matchaction performance testing? The cost of the different actions supported by a vSwitch                                            |     1    |   [[ https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/VSPERF-242 |  242 ]]    |
| VM2VM Tests (PHY-VNF-vSwitch-VNF-PHY), with scaling number of VMs in path (combines two tests in the list)                   |     1      |   [[ https://jira.opnfv.org/browse/VSPERF-243 |  243  ]] |
| Classifying L2, L3 and L4 traffic Profile Tests, Flows, new flows/sec, L2/L3/L4 etc. entries in"fast" path tables, ...               |     2     |       |
| Stream/bulk Data transfer "unidirectional stream" performance request& response/transaction rate tests                               |           |       |
| Performance testing with Mirroring enabled on the switch                                                                             |     2     |       |
| TCP Max connections per second, Max # of active sessions, Max transactions per second                                                 |           |       |
| IPv6 Support and Testing                                                                                                             |           |       |
| Best of N and Worst of N Tests                                                                                                        |     2     |       |
| Measuring how many instances of a vSwitch would be required to support 1 million simulataneous flows                                 |     2     |       |
| Resilience tests                                                                                                                     |           |       |
| Performance characterization runs vs.number of "x". Tests with Restricted Resources (Host with X Cores, vSwitch with Y Cores?        |           |       |
| Flows, new flows/sec, L2/L3/L4 etc. entries in"fast" path tables, ... |   2   |       |
| Tests to evaluate vSwitch contribution to 3GPP performance objectives (3GPP TS 23.203 Policy and Charging Control Architecture)      |           |       |
| Programming rate of Forwarding_table /flow_table                                                                                     |   2   |     |
| SOAK tests  (using RFC 2889 Max Forwarding Rate, not RFC 2544, to collect intermediate results)                                      |     2     |       |
| Tests suggested by OVS developers (there were a few)                                                                                 |           |       |
| Box-full tests, where all CPU cores are doing useful work: vNet4 vSwitch with Nx VNFs, vNet6 vSwitch with Nx VNF chained topologies  |     2     |       |
| LatencyAndLatencyVariation with dedicated latency measurement streams                                                                |           |       |
| Tests with Restricted Resources (Host with X Cores, vSwitch with Y Cores, ? overlap with 14, … vs number of "X")      |      2    |       |
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===== Testing Topologies =====

^ Topology  ^ Priority ^ JIRA ^
| vNet vComp2 for VM2VM virt interface testing  |   |   |

===== Integration Tests =====
https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/vSwitchIntegrationTests


===== Other =====

We should consider recommending a minimum number of iterations to repeat the test and either average out the result or calculate the variance across trials