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+..  BSD LICENSE
+    Copyright(c) 2010-2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
+    All rights reserved.
+
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+    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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+    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
+    the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
+    distribution.
+    * Neither the name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its
+    contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
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+
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+Performance test guide on Intel's Platform 
+==========================================
+
+|today|
+
+Contents
+
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 2
+    :numbered:
+
+    intro
+    perf_test_intel_platform_nic
+    
+    
+    
+    
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+
+Introduction
+============
+
+This document is a step-by-step guide about how to get high performance with DPDK on Intel's platform and NICs.
+It is designed for users who are not familiar with DPDK but would like 
+to measure the best performance. It contains step-by-step instructions to set the platform and NICs to its best performance.
+The document will add more sections with the DPDK features' increment. 
+Currently, the document has only one section about PF performance test setup, and will add other performance cases in future. 
+
+
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+How to get best performance with Intel's Platform and NICs 
+==========================================================
+
+This document is a step-by-step guide for getting high DPDK performance with Intel's platform and NICs. For other NICs, e.g. Chelsio, Cisco, Mellanox, the Intel platform/CPU settings could be very similar, but the specific NIC's configurations may differ from each vendor.
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+Hardware platform essential requirements:
+
+1. Use a standard Intel® Xeon® server system (e.g. Ivy Bridge, Haswell or newer).
+
+2. Ensure that each memory channel has at least one memory DIMM inserted, and the memory size for each can be 4GB or above (e.g: 8GB or 16GB). **Note**: This is one important element to impact the performance.You can use ``dmidecode -t memory`` to check the memory status::
+
+      dmidecode -t memory |grep Locator
+      
+      #sample output is as below, and there are memory channels from A to H, totally 8 channels and each channel has 2 DIMMs. 
+        
+        Locator: DIMM_A1
+        Bank Locator: NODE 1
+        Locator: DIMM_A2
+        Bank Locator: NODE 1
+        Locator: DIMM_B1
+        Bank Locator: NODE 1
+        Locator: DIMM_B2
+        Bank Locator: NODE 1
+        Locator: DIMM_C1
+        Bank Locator: NODE 1
+        Locator: DIMM_C2
+        Bank Locator: NODE 1
+        Locator: DIMM_D1
+        Bank Locator: NODE 1
+        Locator: DIMM_D2
+        Bank Locator: NODE 1
+        Locator: DIMM_E1
+        Bank Locator: NODE 2
+        Locator: DIMM_E2
+        Bank Locator: NODE 2
+        Locator: DIMM_F1
+        Bank Locator: NODE 2
+        Locator: DIMM_F2
+        Bank Locator: NODE 2
+        Locator: DIMM_G1
+        Bank Locator: NODE 2
+        Locator: DIMM_G2
+        Bank Locator: NODE 2
+        Locator: DIMM_H1
+        Bank Locator: NODE 2
+        Locator: DIMM_H2
+        Bank Locator: NODE 2
+
+      dmidecode -t memory |grep Speed
+      
+      #sample output is as below. It shows Speed 2133 MHz(DDR4) and Unknown(not exist) alternatively.
+      then align with the above channel's information, we can know each channel has one memory bar.
+        
+        Speed: 2133 MHz
+        Configured Clock Speed: 2134 MHz
+        Speed: Unknown
+        Configured Clock Speed: Unknown
+        Speed: 2133 MHz
+        Configured Clock Speed: 2134 MHz
+        Speed: Unknown
+        Configured Clock Speed: Unknown
+        Speed: 2133 MHz
+        Configured Clock Speed: 2134 MHz
+        Speed: Unknown
+        Configured Clock Speed: Unknown
+        Speed: 2133 MHz
+        Configured Clock Speed: 2134 MHz
+        Speed: Unknown
+        Configured Clock Speed: Unknown
+        Speed: 2133 MHz
+        Configured Clock Speed: 2134 MHz
+        Speed: Unknown
+        Configured Clock Speed: Unknown
+        Speed: 2133 MHz
+        Configured Clock Speed: 2134 MHz
+        Speed: Unknown
+        Configured Clock Speed: Unknown
+        Speed: 2133 MHz
+        Configured Clock Speed: 2134 MHz
+        Speed: Unknown
+        Configured Clock Speed: Unknown
+        Speed: 2133 MHz
+        Configured Clock Speed: 2134 MHz
+        Speed: Unknown
+        Configured Clock Speed: Unknown
+
+
+Hardware platform Network Interface Card Essential requirements:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+1. Get an high end Intel® NIC, e.g: Intel® XL710. Note: Get an high end NIC means getting a high packet rate, since currently 1G and 10G NICs can achieve line rate easily, but 40G NIC would be more complicated, so take it as an example. 
+
+2. Make sure each NIC has flashed the latest version of NVM/firmware, if there is.
+
+3. Use PCIe Gen3 slots, such as Gen3 x8 or Gen3 x16 because PCIe Gen2 slots can't provide enough bandwidth for 2x10G and above.The way to check the PCI slot's speed can be like below:: 
+
+      #lspci -s 03:00.1 -vv |grep LnkSta
+      #LnkSta: Speed 8GT/s, Width x8, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
+       LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB, EqualizationComplete+, 
+ EqualizationPhase1+
+
+4. When inserting NICs to the PCI slots, please check the caption on the PCI slot, there would be CPU0 or CPU1 to tell you which socket. Or you can search and download Intel platform board layout in website mark.intel.com. Be careful about the NUMA. If you will use 2 or more ports from different NICs, please make sure these NICs on the same CPU socket. Below session will show you how to check the PCI device locates in which socket by command.
+
+BIOS settings:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+1. To be sure, reset all the BIOS settings to default.
+
+2. Disable all power saving options, and set all options for best performance.
+
+3. Disable Turbo to ensure the performance scaling with core numbers increment.
+
+4. Set memory frequency to the highest number, NOT auto.
+
+5. Disable all Virtualization options when you test physical function of NIC, and turn on VT-d if you wants to use VFIO.
+
+
+Grub Parameters Essential Requirements:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+1. Use the default grub file as a good start.
+
+2. Reserve 1G huge pages via grub configurations, e.g. add ``default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=8`` to reserve 8 huge pages in 1G size.
+
+3. Isolate CPU cores which will be used for DPDK from scheduler, e.g: 
+isolcpus=2,3,4,5,6,7,8
+
+4. If it wants to use VFIO, additional grub parameters are needed. e.g: 
+``iommu=pt intel_iommu=on``
+
+
+Configurations before running DPDK
+----------------------------------
+
+1. Build DPDK target and reserve huge page, refer to GSG guide for more details. Below scripts are for your reference::
+
+      cd <dpdk_folder>
+      make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc -j          # Build DPDK target
+      awk '/Hugepagesize/ {print $2}' /proc/meminfo         # Get the hugepage size
+      awk '/Hugepage_Total/ {print $2} ' /proc/meminfo      # Get the total huge page numbers
+      umount `awk '/hugetlbfs/ {print $2}' /proc/mounts`    # Umount
+      mkdir -p /mnt/huge                                    # Create the hugepage mount folder
+      mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt/huge                    # Mount to the specific folder
+
+2. Check the CPU layout by dpdk tools or system commands ``lscpu``::
+
+      cd <dpdk_folder>/tools
+      ./cpu_layout.py                       #Run the script to check your system's cpu layout.
+
+   Or run ``lscpu`` to check the the cores on each socket
+
+3. Check your NIC id and related socket id::
+
+      lspci -nn|grep Eth                    # List all the NICs with PCI address and device IDs.
+
+   e.g. Suppose your output is as below::
+
+      82:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+ [8086:1583] (rev 01)
+      82:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+ [8086:1583] (rev 01)
+      85:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+ [8086:1583] (rev 01)
+      85:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet 
+ Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+ [8086:1583] (rev 01)
+
+   Check the PCI device related numa node id::
+
+      cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:xx\:00.x/numa_node
+
+   Usually ``8x:00.x`` is on socket 1, ``0x:00.x`` is on socket 0. **Note**: To get best performance, please make sure the core and NICs are in the same socket. Take ``85:00.0`` for example, it's on socket 1, then use cores on socket1 for best performance.
+
+4. Bind the test ports to igb_uio. For example bind two ports to dpdk compatible driver and check the status::
+
+      # Bind ports 82:00.0 and 85:00.0 to dpdk driver
+
+      ./<dpdk_folder>/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py -b igb_uio 82:00.0 85:00.0
+
+      # Check the port driver status
+
+      ./<dpdk_folder>/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py --st
+
+5. More details about setup or linux kernel requirements can be referred to GSG guide. 
+
+Example
+-------
+
+Below is an case of running dpdk l3fwd sample to get high performance with Intel platform and Intel(R) XL710 NIC. Any specific 40G NIC configurations please refer to the NIC's(i40e) guide.
+
+**Note**: The scenario is to get best performance with two Intel®XL710 40G ports. See below Figure1 as the performance test setup. 
+
+.. figure:: img/intel_perf_test_setup.*
+
+**Figure 1. PF_Performance_Test_setup**
+
+
+1. Insert two NICs(Intel®XL710) into the platform, and use one port per card to get best performance. The reason using two NICs is the PCIe Gen3's limitations. **Note**: As PCIe Gen3x8 can't provide 80G bandwidth for two 40G ports, but two different PCIe Gen3x8 slot can. Refer to the sample NICs output above, then we can select 82:00.0 and 85:00.0 as test ports::
+
+      82:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+ [8086:1583] (rev 01)
+      85:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet 
+ Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+ [8086:1583] (rev 01)
+
+2. Connect the ports to the traffic generator, such as IXIA and Spirent.
+
+3. Check the PCI devices numa node(socket id) and get the cores number on the exact socket id. In this case, 82:00.0 and 85:00.0 are both in socket1, and the cores on socket1 in the referenced platform is 18-35,54-71. Note: Don't use one core's 2 thread(e.g core18 has 2 lcores, lcore18 and lcore54), instead, use 2 logical cores from different cores(e.g core18 and core19).
+
+4. Bind these two ports to igb_uio.
+
+5. As it is known that XL710 40G port need at least two queue pairs to achieve best performance, then two queues per port will be required, and each queue pair will need a dedicated CPU core for receiving/transmitting packets.
+
+6. Basically l3fwd will be using for performance testing, with using two ports for bi-directional forwarding. Compile the l3fwd sample with default lpm mode.
+
+7. Final command line of running l3fwd could be as followings. That means use core 18 for port 0, queue pair 0 forwarding, core 19 for port 0, queue pair 1 forwarding, core 20 for port 1, queue pair 0 forwarding, core 21 for port 1, queue pair 1 forwarding::
+
+      ./l3fwd -c 0x3c0000 -n 4 -w 82:00.0 -w 85:00.0 -- -p 0x3 --config '(0,0,18),(0,1,19),(1,0,20),(1,1,21)'
+ 
+8. Configure the traffic to a traffic generator such as IXIA or Spirent.
+
+* Start creating a stream on packet generator, e.g. IXIA.
+* Set the Ethernet II type to 0x0800
