Re: [bmwg] An Upgrade to Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices -- Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-lencse-bmwg-rfc2544-bis-00.txt

["MORTON, ALFRED C (AL)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Gábor Lencse,

Thanks for your message and the draft you wrote with Keiichi Shima.
I remember you from the draft that Marius Georgescu led in BMWG,
resulting in RFC 8219.

The BMWG has been updating areas of RFC 2544 as we determine the need
for better procedures. This practice began with RFC 4814 [0] in 2007 
(Hash and Stuffing), and continued with RFC 5180 [1] for IPv6. Many
others have followed. RFC 8219 is yet another example.

BMWG has had some help keeping RFC 2544 up to date. The ETSI ISG on
Network Function Virtualization has a Testing and Open Source Working 
Group. This WG has prepared and frequently updated their specification
containing many of the topics you propose, but not all. The Specification
is TST009 [2], and it directly deals with your proposed topic of:
"An Optional Non-zero Frame Loss Acceptance Criterion for the 
Throughput Measurement  Procedure". The TST009 benchmark "Throughput" is 
equivalent to the RFC2544 Throughput (zero loss), and the TST009 (clause 8)
Metric Variant of "Capacity with X% Loss Ratio" covers the non-zero 
loss case.  Besides Section 26.1 of RFC 2544 (Throughput), 
TST009 clauses 9 and 10 go on to expand Section 26.2 (Latency), 
and RFC 2544 26.3 (Frame Loss Rate) expanded in TST009 clause 11 (Loss).
Each TST009 clause contains one Benchmark and several Metric Variants. 

Getting back to BMWG's own updates, RFC 2544 Section 26.6 (System Resets) 
was updated by RFC 6201. It also seems to me that RFC 2544 
Section 26.5 (System Recovery) was treated more completely in a 
recent effort, but reference escapes me at the moment.

The astute reader has noticed that I skipped over RFC 2544 Section 26.4
(Back-to-back Frame Benchmark) until now. BMWG has work in progress 
to update Section 26.4 [3], and we have discussed this draft at our
May 15 Interim meeting and again on the list this week.

Updates for another RFC 2544 Section, Section 24 on Trial Duration 
are included in ETSI NFV TST009 [2] clause 12.3, with other work
in progress under consideration in the BMWG: Multiple Loss Ratio Search [4]
and Probabilistic Loss Ratio Search [5].

This was, by no means, an exhaustive roadmap to benchmarking best practices.
However, after revisiting all the RFC 2544 Section updates above, 
I conclude:

1. that there is benefit in some of the work you propose, specifically
"Requirement of Statistically Relevant Number of Tests", and perhaps 
some of "the Novelties of RFC8219" could be generalized, if not covered
by the work discussed and cited above.

2. some of the work you proposed joins with current efforts to update 
sections of RFC 2544, but it does not constitute a "RFC 2544-bis" 
by any means (as the file name indicates; I suggest to change the file
name in the next release to make this more clear and maybe separate
the draft in two or more specific topics).

So, in summary, I encourage your work in non-overlapping areas.

best regards,
Al
(as a participant)


[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4814/

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5180/

[2] https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-TST/001_099/009/03.02.01_60/gs_NFV-TST009v030201p.pdf

[3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-bmwg-b2b-frame-02

[4] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vpolak-mkonstan-bmwg-mlrsearch-03

[5] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vpolak-bmwg-plrsearch-03



From: bmwg [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Lencse Gábor
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Subject: [bmwg] An Upgrade to Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices -- Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-lencse-bmwg-rfc2544-bis-00.txt

Dear BMWG List Members!

On the basis of our experience with RFC 8219, we have made four recommendations to upgrade RFC 2544 in our new draft "An Upgrade to Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices".

Could you please read and comment it?

It is really short: we tried to summarize the essence of our recommendations. We are happy to work out the details, if there is interest / support in BMWG.

Any feedback is welcome!

Best regards,

Gábor Lencse


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Tárgy: 
New Version Notification for draft-lencse-bmwg-rfc2544-bis-00.txt
Dátum: 
Wed, 20 May 2020 00:32:44 -0700
Feladó: 
[e-mail]
Címzett: 
Gabor Lencse <[e-mail]>, Keiichi Shima <[e-mail]>



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Name: draft-lencse-bmwg-rfc2544-bis
Revision: 00
Title: An Upgrade to Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices
Document date: 2020-05-20
Group: Individual Submission
Pages: 9
URL: https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-lencse-bmwg-rfc2544-bis-00.txt
Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lencse-bmwg-rfc2544-bis/
Htmlized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lencse-bmwg-rfc2544-bis-00
Htmlized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-lencse-bmwg-rfc2544-bis


Abstract:
RFC 2544 has defined a benchmarking methodology for network
interconnect devices. We recommend a few upgrades to it for
producing more reasonable results. The recommended upgrades can be
classified into two categories: the application of the novelties of
RFC 8219 for the legacy RFC 2544 use cases and the following new
ones. Checking a reasonably small timeout individually for every
single frame in the throughput and frame loss rate benchmarking
procedures. Performing a statistically relevant number of tests for
all benchmarking procedures. Addition of an optional non-zero frame
loss acceptance criterion for the throughput measurement procedure
and defining its reporting format.



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