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Thus the purpose of this test is to evaluate the performance of SmartNIC offloaded servers, including the PPS (packet per seconds) as well as the TCP throughput in a virtualized environment.To fully test the PPS performance brought by the SmartNICs, we will use DPDK application running in the VM to avoid the overhead induced by the hypervisor and guest kernels.

To evaluate the performance of the normal network applications, we will also use tools like IPerf to evaluate the TCP throughput as well as the network latency.

We will also test the performance of the SmartNICs when some network functions are enabled, such as firewall ACL and security group. In the case of using OVS as the vSwitch, the offloading performance for the Connection-tracking will be evaluated.

Test Bed

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The testbed setup is shown in the above diagram. DUT stands for Device Under Test

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Test Framework

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