performance_test_suite_v1.docx

Purpose

This document is target to define a performance test suite for Tungsten Fabric. A unified and simplified performance test solution/methodology benefits to users for

• Quickly measure the Tungsten Fabric performance by simply environment without and hardware tools/instruments dependency
• Use this test suite as a performance unified checking tool, if you do some performance optimization
• Align the performance checking methodology between developers and maintainers, for patch merging criteria

General

Hardware requirements

1x Intel Xeon server as TF Controller 1

• E.g. Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 +
• 256GB RAM
• 1TB HDD
• 10G/25G/40G Network Interface Controller on NUMA 0

2x Intel Xeon server as TF DUT1 and DUT2

• E.g. Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v4 +
• 128GB RAM
• 1TB HDD
• 10G/25G/40G Network Interface Controller on NUMA 0

1x internal switch for test network

• Support the bandwidth you want to test 10G/25G/40G
• Optional, if you want to test bonding NIC, switch should support bonding feature, like LACP mode

Software Requirements

BIOS:

• Disable Turbo boost
• Power management is set to “Performance”
• Enable C0/C1

OS: Centos7.5 Minimal

Kernel parameters for isolate cores for testing. E.g.