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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

Test	Priority	JIRA
Scalability Tests adding More VMs in succession and building a performance profile as we add more VMs.
OverlayNetworking Tests: VXLAN performance testing, encap, decap, encap and decap
Matchaction performance testing? The cost of the different actions supported by a vSwitch
Classifying L2, L3 and L4 traffic Profile Tests, Flows, new flows/sec, L2/L3/L4 etc. entries in"fast" path tables, …
Stream/bulk Data transfer "unidirectional stream" performance request& response/transaction rate tests
Performance testing with Mirroring enabled on the switch
TCP Maxconnections per second, Max # of active sessions, Max transactions per second
IPv6 Support and Testing
Best ofN and Worst of N Tests
Measuring how many instances of a vSwitch would be required to support 1 million simulataneuos flows
Resilience tests
Performance characterization runs vs.number of "x". Tests with Restricted Resources (Host with X Cores, vSwitch with Y Cores?
Tests to evaluate vSwitch contribution to 3GPP performance objectives (3GPP TS 23.203 Policy and Charging Control Architecture)
VM2VM Tests, with scaling number of VMs (in path)
PHY-VNF-vSwitch-VNF-PHY
Programming rate of Forwarding_table /flow_table
SOAK tests (using RFC 2889 Max Forwarding Rate, not RFC 2544, to collect intermediate results)
Tests suggested by OVS developers (there were a few)





Deactivation tests

Topology	Priority	JIRA
vNet vComp2 for VM2VM virt interface testing