testDoc: added forwarding functional/performance tests, configuration info to the introduction

064b3afb · Maciej Lipinski · 75823d50 · 064b3afb · 064b3afb · 064b3afb
Commit 064b3afb authored Mar 21, 2014 by Maciej Lipinski
4 changed files
--- a/doc/spec/switch-release-tests/src/forwarding-functional.tex
+++ b/doc/spec/switch-release-tests/src/forwarding-functional.tex
@@ -4,6 +4,26 @@
 This tests aims at verifying simple forwarding capabilities of the switch. The configuration 
 that should be used throughout all the tests in this section, unless explicitly stated.

+
+\paragraph{Test setup}
+
+Spirent tester (sTester) and WR Switch (wrSwitch) under test with ports connected in the following way
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l}
+sTester-port:0  & to & wrSwitch-port:0  \\
+sTester-port:1  & to & wrSwitch-port:17  \\
+sTester-port:2  & to & wrSwitch-port:1  \\
+sTester-port:3  & to & wrSwitch-port:16  \\
+wrSwitch-port:2  & to & wrSwitch-port:3  \\
+wrSwitch-port:4  & to & wrSwitch-port:5  \\
+wrSwitch-port:6  & to & wrSwitch-port:7  \\
+wrSwitch-port:8  & to & wrSwitch-port:9  \\
+wrSwitch-port:10  & to & wrSwitch-port:11  \\
+wrSwitch-port:12  & to & wrSwitch-port:13  \\
+wrSwitch-port:14  & to & wrSwitch-port:16  \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
 \paragraph{Switch Configuration}

 Default configuration.
@@ -17,12 +37,105 @@ FRAME  & size   & 64bytes \\
 \end{tabular}
 \end{table}

-\subsection{VLANs}
+\newpage
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{Unicast}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+No learning shall be performed before this tests.
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsubsection{Unicast -- one-to-one stream}
+
+\paragraph{Description} 
+
+Unicast forwarding.
+
+\paragraph{Switch Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l l}
+VLAN  & port 0:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 1:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 16:     & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 17:     & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & other ports: & VID=0, & QMODE=trunk (to avoid loops)\\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Tester Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
+FRAME   & 802.1D:        & no VLAN tag, dstMAC=unicast  \\
+        &                &                  \\ 
+TRAFFIC & send to:       & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+        & receive on:    & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+STREAMS & bi-directional & port 0  $<->$ port 1  \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}

-This tests serve the purpose of verifying that basic VLAN-related functions work.
+
+\paragraph{Test passed if}
+
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item All frames sent to port 0 are received only on port 1
+\item All frames sent to port 1 are received only on port 0
+\item A limited number of frames from ports 0 and 1 received on ports 16 and 17 (unrecognized
+      broadcast before learnt by RTUd)
+\end{itemize*}

 \newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-\subsubsection{Trival-1}
+\subsubsection{Unicast -- many-to-many stream}
+
+\paragraph{Description} 
+
+Unicast forwarding.
+
+\paragraph{Switch Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l l}
+VLAN  & port 0:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 1:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 16:     & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 17:     & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & other ports: & VID=0, & QMODE=trunk (to avoid loops)\\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Tester Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
+FRAME   & 802.1D:         & no VLAN tag, dstMAC=unicast  \\
+        &                 &                  \\ 
+TRAFFIC & send to:        & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+        & receive on:     & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+STREAMS & uni-directional & port 0  $<->$ port 1, 16, 17  \\
+        & uni-directional & port 1  $<->$ port 0, 16, 17  \\
+        & uni-directional & port 16 $<->$ port 0, 1,  17  \\
+        & uni-directional & port 17 $<->$ port 0, 1,  16  \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+
+\paragraph{Test passed if}
+
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item All frames sent to port 0 are received only on port 17
+\item All frames sent to port 17 are received only on port 0
+\item All frames sent to port 1 are received only on port 16
+\item All frames sent to port 16 are received only on port 1
+\end{itemize*}
+
+\newpage
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{VLANs}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+This tests serve the purpose of verifying that basic VLAN-related functions work.
+
+ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsubsection{VLAN-limited forwardng}

 \paragraph{Description} 

@@ -62,7 +175,7 @@ TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0, 1        \\
 \end{itemize*}

 \newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-\subsubsection{Trival-2}
+\subsubsection{VLAN separation of traffic}

 \paragraph{Description} 

@@ -100,15 +213,21 @@ TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0, 1     \\
 \end{itemize*}

 \newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-\subsubsection{Trival-3}
+\subsubsection{Output priority queuing}

 \paragraph{Description} 

-Check whether overriding of priority per VLAN works - don't know yet how, possibly 
-using HP detection
-Need to set EP apprpriately
+Verify that frames with different priorities are queued properly - probably need to define
+many STREAMS with traffic of different priorities between the same ports of Spirent tester.
+It might be that Spirent has such tests.
+
+\newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsubsection{Per-VLAN prio override}

+\paragraph{Description} 

+Check whether overriding of priority per VLAN works - possibly by using HP detection or 
+pStats counters. TODO

 \newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \subsubsection{Tagging}

--- a/doc/spec/switch-release-tests/src/forwarding-performance.tex
+++ b/doc/spec/switch-release-tests/src/forwarding-performance.tex
@@ -4,10 +4,44 @@

 This tests aim at verifying the forwarding performance of the switch in terms of latency
 and frame loss.
+Spirent tester (sTester) and WR Switch (wrSwitch) under test with ports connected in the following way
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l}
+sTester-port:0  & to & wrSwitch-port:0  \\
+sTester-port:1  & to & wrSwitch-port:17  \\
+sTester-port:2  & to & wrSwitch-port:1  \\
+sTester-port:3  & to & wrSwitch-port:16  \\
+wrSwitch-port:2  & to & wrSwitch-port:3  \\
+wrSwitch-port:4  & to & wrSwitch-port:5  \\
+wrSwitch-port:6  & to & wrSwitch-port:7  \\
+wrSwitch-port:8  & to & wrSwitch-port:9  \\
+wrSwitch-port:10  & to & wrSwitch-port:11  \\
+wrSwitch-port:12  & to & wrSwitch-port:13  \\
+wrSwitch-port:14  & to & wrSwitch-port:16  \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+% \paragraph{Test setup}
+% \begin{table}[ht!]
+%   \begin{tabular}{r l l}
+%     WR Switch : & {\bf port 0}    & connected to port 0 Networking tester\\
+%     WR Switch : & {\bf port 17}   & connected to port 1 Networking tester\\
+%     WR Switch : & {\bf port 1}    & connected to port 2 Networking tester\\
+%     WR Switch : & {\bf port 16}   & connected to port 3 Networking tester\\
+%   \end{tabular}
+% \end{table}
+\begin{itemize*}
+  \item All connections shall be done with fibers of max 10m length (~50ns latency) - this
+        transletes max cable-latency-contribution of $\sim0.55 [us] = \sim50ns * 11 [cables]$ 
+\end{itemize*}
+

 \paragraph{Switch Configuration}

-Default configuration.
+Each test shall be performed for two switch configurations:
+\begin{enumerate*}
+  \item Default configuration (PTPd ON)
+  \item With PTPd not running.
+\end{enumerate*}

 \paragraph{Tester Configuration}

@@ -16,28 +50,86 @@ The configuration shall be changed to cover all the possible combinations:
 \begin{tabular}{ l  l l l}
 FRAME  & increment size [bytes]   & 64-1522 with step of 1  \\
       & loads [\%]               & 10, 30, 50, 70, 80, 85, 90, 92,95,97,99,100  \\
-       & number                   & 10\^9    \\
+       & number                   & $10^9$    \\
 \end{tabular}
-\end{table}
+\end{table}\\
 Additionlly, the following configurations shall be tested:
 \begin{table}[ht!]
 \begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
 FRAME  & increment size [bytes]   & 64,65, 700,701, 1521, 1522\\
       & loads [\%]               & 50, 80, 95,100  \\
-       & time of burst            & 5 min    \\
+       & time of burst            & 5 min\\
 \end{tabular}
-\end{table}
-
+\end{table}\\
 Before the tests, learning process shall be perform to learn MAC addresses of the tester's ports.
 The learning process is not part of the test.

+\paragraph{Parameters recorded}
+For each test and each tested configuration, the following parameters should be recorded:
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item Frame loss in \% per port per stream per direction,
+\item Frame latency (average, max, min),
+\item Test result (for a given configuration): failed/passed.
+\end{itemize*}
+After each tested configuration (within the same test), the following should happen:
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item State of debug parameters (e.g.: free pages number, port states,....) shall
+      compared with the desired idle state
+\item If the parameters indicate anormalies, the parameters shall be recorded and the switch
+      restarted.
+\end{itemize*}
+
+
+\newpage
 \subsection{4 ports}

 The purpose of the test is to check forwarding performance of the switch forwarding
 traffic point to point (only 4 ports busy) - light stress tests.

+ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsubsection{Unicast -- one-to-one streams -- adjacent ports}
+
+\paragraph{Description} 
+
+Unicast forwarding.
+
+\paragraph{Switch Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l l}
+VLAN  & port 0:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 1:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 16:     & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 17:     & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & other ports: & VID=0, & QMODE=trunk (to avoid loops)\\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Tester Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
+FRAME   & 802.1D:        & no VLAN tag, dstMAC=unicast  \\
+        &                &                  \\ 
+TRAFFIC & send to:       & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+        & receive on:    & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+STREAMS & bi-directional & port 0  $<->$ port 1  \\
+        & bi-directional & port 16 $<->$ port 17 \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+
+\paragraph{Test passed if}
+
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item All frames sent to port 0 are received only on port 17
+\item All frames sent to port 17 are received only on port 0
+\item All frames sent to port 1 are received only on port 16
+\item All frames sent to port 16 are received only on port 1
+\end{itemize*}
+
 \newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-\subsubsection{Unicast}
+\subsubsection{Unicast -- one-to-one streams -- extreme ports}

 \paragraph{Description} 

@@ -59,13 +151,60 @@ VLAN  & port 0:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\

 \begin{table}[ht!]
 \begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
-FRAME   & 802.1D:     & no VLAN tag, dstMAC=unicast  \\
-        &             &                  \\ 
-TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
-        & receive on: & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+FRAME   & 802.1D:        & no VLAN tag, dstMAC=unicast  \\
+        &                &                  \\ 
+TRAFFIC & send to:       & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+        & receive on:    & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+STREAMS & bi-directional & port 0  $<->$ port 17  \\
+        & bi-directional & port 1  $<->$ port 16 \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+
+\paragraph{Test passed if}
+
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item All frames sent to port 0 are received only on port 17
+\item All frames sent to port 17 are received only on port 0
+\item All frames sent to port 1 are received only on port 16
+\item All frames sent to port 16 are received only on port 1
+\end{itemize*}
+
+\newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsubsection{Unicast -- many-to-many stream}
+
+\paragraph{Description} 
+
+Unicast forwarding.
+
+\paragraph{Switch Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l l}
+VLAN  & port 0:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 1:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 16:     & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 17:     & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & other ports: & VID=0, & QMODE=trunk (to avoid loops)\\
 \end{tabular}
 \end{table}

+\paragraph{Tester Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
+FRAME   & 802.1D:         & no VLAN tag, dstMAC=unicast  \\
+        &                 &                  \\ 
+TRAFFIC & send to:        & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+        & receive on:     & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+STREAMS & uni-directional & port 0  $<->$ port 1, 16, 17  \\
+        & uni-directional & port 1  $<->$ port 0, 16, 17  \\
+        & uni-directional & port 16 $<->$ port 0, 1,  17  \\
+        & uni-directional & port 17 $<->$ port 0, 1,  16  \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+
 \paragraph{Test passed if}

 \begin{itemize*}
@@ -75,14 +214,13 @@ TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
 \item All frames sent to port 16 are received only on port 1
 \end{itemize*}

-The latency for each configuration-step shall be noted and reported. 

 \newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \subsubsection{VLAN, broadcast}

 \paragraph{Description} 

-Unicast forwarding.
+Braodcast forwarding.

 \paragraph{Switch Configuration} 

@@ -105,6 +243,8 @@ FRAME   & 802.1Q:     & port 0  \& 1 : VID=1, PRIO=0,VID-untagged=1, dstMAC=broa
        &             &                  \\ 
 TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
        & receive on: & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+STREAMS & bi-directional & port 0  $<->$ port 17  \\
+        & bi-directional & port 1  $<->$ port 16 \\
 \end{tabular}
 \end{table}

@@ -117,14 +257,13 @@ TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
 \item All frames sent to port 16 are received only on port 1
 \end{itemize*}

-The latency for each configuration-step shall be noted and reported. 

 \newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \subsubsection{VLAN, broadcast, tagging/untagging}

 \paragraph{Description} 

-Unicast forwarding.
+Broadcast forwarding.

 \paragraph{Switch Configuration} 

@@ -146,8 +285,181 @@ FRAME   & 802.1D:     & no VLAN tag dstMAC=broadcast \\
        &             &                  \\ 
 TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
        & receive on: & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+STREAMS & bi-directional & port 0  $<->$ port 17  \\
+        & bi-directional & port 1  $<->$ port 16 \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Test passed if}
+
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item All frames sent to port 0 are received only on port 17
+\item All frames sent to port 17 are received only on port 0
+\item All frames sent to port 1 are received only on port 16
+\item All frames sent to port 16 are received only on port 1
+\end{itemize*}
+
+\newpage
+\subsection{Snake}
+ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsubsection{Uniformly distributed load on all ports}
+
+\paragraph{Description} 
+
+The test verifies performance of the switch under extreme load on all ports.
+
+\paragraph{Switch Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{l l l l l}
+VLAN  & port 0:      & VID=\{0, 1\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=1, VID-untagged=1\\
+      & port 1:      & VID=\{0, 2\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=2, VID-untagged=2\\
+      & port 2:      & VID=\{0, 2\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=2, VID-untagged=2\\
+      & port 3:      & VID=\{0, 3\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=3, VID-untagged=3\\
+      & port 4:      & VID=\{0, 3\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=3, VID-untagged=3\\
+      & port 5:      & VID=\{0, 4\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=4, VID-untagged=4\\
+      & port 6:      & VID=\{0, 4\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=4, VID-untagged=4\\
+      & port 7:      & VID=\{0, 5\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=5, VID-untagged=5\\
+      & port 8:      & VID=\{0, 5\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=5, VID-untagged=5\\
+      & port 9:      & VID=\{0, 6\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=6, VID-untagged=6\\
+      & port 10:     & VID=\{0, 6\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=6, VID-untagged=6\\
+      & port 11:     & VID=\{0, 7\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=7, VID-untagged=7\\
+      & port 12:     & VID=\{0, 7\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=7, VID-untagged=7\\
+      & port 13:     & VID=\{0, 8\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=8, VID-untagged=8\\
+      & port 14:     & VID=\{0, 8\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=8, VID-untagged=8\\
+      & port 15:     & VID=\{0, 9\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=9, VID-untagged=9\\
+      & port 16:     & VID=\{0, 9\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=9, VID-untagged=9\\
+      & port 17:     & VID=\{0, 1\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=1, VID-untagged=1\\
+
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Tester Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
+FRAME   & 802.1D:     & no VLAN tag   \\
+        &             &               \\ 
+TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0,1,2,3  \\
+        & receive on: & port 0,1,2,3  \\
+STREAMS & bi-directional & port 0  $<->$ port 17  \\
+        & bi-directional & port 1  $<->$ port 16 \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Test passed if}
+
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item All frames sent to port 0 are received only on port 17
+\item All frames sent to port 17 are received only on port 0
+\item All frames sent to port 1 are received only on port 16
+\item All frames sent to port 16 are received only on port 1
+\item All received frames are untagged  (i.e. 802.1 with no VLAN tag)
+\end{itemize*}
+
+\newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsubsection{Non uniformly distributed load on ports}
+
+\paragraph{Description} 
+
+The test verifies how forwarding performance (latency, frame loss) is influenced by independent
+streams on independent ports.
+
+\paragraph{Switch Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{l l l l l}
+VLAN  & port 0:      & VID=\{0, 1\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=1, VID-untagged=1\\
+      & port 1:      & VID=\{0, 2\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=2, VID-untagged=2\\
+      & port 2:      & VID=\{0, 2\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=2, VID-untagged=2\\
+      & port 3:      & VID=\{0, 3\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=3, VID-untagged=3\\
+      & port 4:      & VID=\{0, 3\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=3, VID-untagged=3\\
+      & port 5:      & VID=\{0, 4\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=4, VID-untagged=4\\
+      & port 6:      & VID=\{0, 4\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=4, VID-untagged=4\\
+      & port 7:      & VID=\{0, 5\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=5, VID-untagged=5\\
+      & port 8:      & VID=\{0, 5\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=5, VID-untagged=5\\
+      & port 9:      & VID=\{0, 6\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=6, VID-untagged=6\\
+      & port 10:     & VID=\{0, 6\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=6, VID-untagged=6\\
+      & port 11:     & VID=\{0, 7\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=7, VID-untagged=7\\
+      & port 12:     & VID=\{0, 7\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=7, VID-untagged=7\\
+      & port 13:     & VID=\{0, 8\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=8, VID-untagged=8\\
+      & port 14:     & VID=\{0, 8\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=8, VID-untagged=8\\
+      & port 15:     & VID=\{0, 9\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=9, VID-untagged=9\\
+      & port 16:     & VID=\{0, 9\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=9, VID-untagged=9\\
+      & port 17:     & VID=\{0, 1\}, & QMODE=access, FIX\_PRIO=0, PVID=1, VID-untagged=1\\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Tester Configuration} 
+ 
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
+FRAME   & 802.1D:     & no VLAN tag   \\
+        &             &               \\ 
+TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0,1,2,3  \\
+        & receive on: & port 0,1,2,3  \\
+STREAMS & bi-directional & port 0  $<->$ port 17  \\
+        & bi-directional & port 1  $<->$ port 16 \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+Each combination of the following configuration :
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
+FRAME  & increment size [bytes]   & 64,65, 700,701, 1521, 1522\\
+       & loads [\%]               & 50, 80, 95,100  \\
+       & time of burst            & 5 min\\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}\\
+shall be set for frame streams between ports 0 and 1 (direct connection). For each such 
+combination, all config combinations shall be sent on ports 2 and 3 (snake).
+This way, influence of switch load of 16 ports on the reminding two ports can be observed.
+
+\paragraph{Test passed if}
+
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item All frames sent to port 0 are received only on port 17
+\item All frames sent to port 17 are received only on port 0
+\item All frames sent to port 1 are received only on port 16
+\item All frames sent to port 16 are received only on port 1
+\item All received frames are untagged  (i.e. 802.1 with no VLAN tag)
+\end{itemize*}
+
+
+\newpage 
+\subsection{Frame storms}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsubsection{Unicast}
+
+\paragraph{Description} 
+
+Unicast forwarding of a storm of unrecognized frames.
+
+\paragraph{Switch Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l l}
+VLAN  & port 0:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 1:      & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 16:     & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & port 17:     & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified\\
+      & other ports: & VID=0, & QMODE=trunk (to avoid loops)\\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Tester Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
+FRAME   & 802.1D:         & no VLAN tag, dstMAC=unicast  \\
+        &                 &                  \\ 
+TRAFFIC & send to:        & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+        & receive on:     & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+STREAMS & bi-directional  & port 0  $<->$ port 17 \\
+        & bi-directional  & port 1  $<->$ port 16 \\
 \end{tabular}
 \end{table}
+No learnig performed before sending traffic !
+Time of burst: 1min (override default test config).

 \paragraph{Test passed if}

@@ -158,4 +470,46 @@ TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
 \item All frames sent to port 16 are received only on port 1
 \end{itemize*}

-The latency for each configuration-step shall be noted and reported. 
\ No newline at end of file
+
+\newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsubsection{VLAN, broadcast, tagging/untagging}
+
+\paragraph{Description} 
+
+Broadcast forwarding of a storm of unrecognized frames.
+
+\paragraph{Switch Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l l}
+VLAN  & port 0:      & VID=\{0, 1\}, & QMODE=access, VID-untagged=1\\
+      & port 1:      & VID=\{0, 1\}, & QMODE=access, VID-untagged=1\\
+      & port 16:     & VID=\{0, 2\}, & QMODE=access, VID-untagged=2\\\
+      & port 17:     & VID=\{0, 2\}, & QMODE=access, VID-untagged=2\\
+      & other ports: & VID=0,        & QMODE=trunk\\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Tester Configuration} 
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l }
+FRAME   & 802.1D:     & no VLAN tag dstMAC=broadcast \\
+        &             &                  \\ 
+TRAFFIC & send to:    & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+        & receive on: & port 0, 1,16,17  \\
+STREAMS & bi-directional & port 0  $<->$ port 17  \\
+        & bi-directional & port 1  $<->$ port 16 \\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+No learnig performed before sending traffic !
+Time of burst: 1min (override default test config).
+
+\paragraph{Test passed if}
+
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item All frames sent to port 0 are received only on port 17
+\item All frames sent to port 17 are received only on port 0
+\item All frames sent to port 1 are received only on port 16
+\item All frames sent to port 16 are received only on port 1
+\end{itemize*}
\ No newline at end of file
--- a/doc/spec/switch-release-tests/src/introduction.tex
+++ b/doc/spec/switch-release-tests/src/introduction.tex
@@ -6,7 +6,23 @@
    \item All the configuration that is not mention should be set to default
    \item Each section specifies section-wide configuration that can be overriden by
          a specific test,
+    \item Before each test (but not between different configuration seeting of the same
+          test), the switch shall be restarted and configured from scratch,
+    \item If a test failure is detected (e.g. for a particular configuration of a test:
+          given frame load and size), the switch shall be restarted with the next configuration
+          listed in the test description.
 \end{itemize*}

+\paragraph{Default configuration}
+
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+\begin{tabular}{ l  l l l}
+PTP   & ON           & free running BC\\
+VLAN  & all ports    & VID=0, & QMODE=unqualified,PRIO mapping: 0-0,1-1,...7-7 \\
+...   & ...          & ...\\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
 \paragraph{Test passed if}
-This section states specifically the condition to render the test successfull ("passed").
\ No newline at end of file
+This section states specifically the condition to render the test successfull ("passed").
+
--- a/doc/spec/switch-release-tests/src/synchronization-performance.tex
+++ b/doc/spec/switch-release-tests/src/synchronization-performance.tex
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ synchronization when a background, non-PTP traffic of various loads is present.
    {\bf Traffic} & send to:      & WR Switch 1, port 17\\
                  & receive on:   & WR Switch 2, port 17\\
     {\bf Frames} & broadcast     & dstMAC = \emph{FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF}\\
-                  & size [bytes]  & 64\\
+                  & size [bytes]  & 64, 65, 700,701, 1521, 1522\\
                  & loads [\%]    & 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100\\
                  & time of burst per load & 5 min\\
  \end{tabular}
@@ -224,3 +224,67 @@ synchronization when a background, non-PTP traffic of various loads is present.
      \item \emph{cko} always in a range -50ps; +50ps
    \end{itemize}
 \end{itemize*}
+
+\paragraph{Recorded parameters}
+\begin{itemize*}
+  \item accuracy (average) and precision (sdev) measured by Oscilloscope measurement of PPS
+  \item latency of frames (avg, max, min) and frame loss (\%)
+\end{itemize*}
+
+
+\newpage %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\subsection{Synchronization with high switch load}
+
+The test verifies if two WR Switches are able to perform stable, sub-nanosecond
+synchronization when a background, non-PTP traffic of various loads is present.
+
+\paragraph{Test setup}
+\vspace{12pt}
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+  \begin{tabular}{r l l}
+    WR Switch 1: & {\bf port 17}   & -- Networking tester device\\
+    WR Switch 1: & {\bf port 2}    & -- port 0 of WR Switch 2\\
+    WR Switch 2: & {\bf port 0}    & -- port 2 of WR Switch 1\\
+    WR Switch 2: & {\bf port 17}   & -- Networking tester device\\
+    WR Switch 1: & {\bf 1-PPS out} & -- channel 1 of the oscilloscope\\
+    WR Switch 2: & {\bf 1-PPS out} & -- channel 2 of the oscilloscope\\
+  \end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Oscilloscope setup}
+\vspace{12pt}
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+  \begin{tabular}{l l}
+    {\bf channel 1, 2} & 200mV/div, offset 800mV, DC 50Ohm\\
+       {\bf timescale} & 1ns/div\\
+ {\bf persistent mode} & ON\\
+  \end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Networking tester setup}
+\vspace{12pt}
+\begin{table}[ht!]
+  \begin{tabular}{l l l}
+    {\bf Traffic} & send to:      & WR Switch 1, port 17\\
+                  & receive on:   & WR Switch 2, port 17\\
+     {\bf Frames} & broadcast     & dstMAC = \emph{FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF}\\
+                  & size [bytes]  & 64, 65, 700,701, 1521, 1522\\
+                  & loads [\%]    & 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100\\
+                  & time of burst per load & 5 min\\
+  \end{tabular}
+\end{table}
+
+\paragraph{Test passed if}
+\begin{itemize*}
+  \item For each load of non-PTP frames Oscilloscope in persistent mode shows
+    stable 1-PPS relation between two WR Switches\\
+  \item \emph{wr\_mon} tool on WR Switch 2 reports through the test period for
+    each frames load:
+    \begin{itemize}
+      \item \emph{lock} always 1
+      \item \emph{servo state} always \emph{TRACK\_PHASE}
+      \item \emph{mu} changes without any sudden, few-ns jumps
+      \item \emph{cko} always in a range -50ps; +50ps
+    \end{itemize}
+\end{itemize*}
+