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Last Call Review of draft-ietf-bmwg-evpntest-07
review-ietf-bmwg-evpntest-07-tsvart-lc-iyengar-2021-05-24-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-bmwg-evpntest
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 11)
Type Last Call Review
Team Transport Area Review Team (tsvart)
Deadline 2021-05-24
Requested 2021-05-10
Authors sudhin jacob , Kishore Tiruveedhula
I-D last updated 2021-05-24
Completed reviews Rtgdir Last Call review of -08 by Joel M. Halpern (diff)
Tsvart Last Call review of -07 by Jana Iyengar (diff)
Genart Last Call review of -07 by Ines Robles (diff)
Secdir Last Call review of -07 by Robert Sparks (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Jana Iyengar
State Completed
Request Last Call review on draft-ietf-bmwg-evpntest by Transport Area Review Team Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tsv-art/FnBafgQzcYesSGERUXq6Gs7xHYg
Reviewed revision 07 (document currently at 11)
Result Ready w/issues
Completed 2021-05-24
review-ietf-bmwg-evpntest-07-tsvart-lc-iyengar-2021-05-24-00
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The document seems fine overall. There are some minor grammar and consistency
things, but I expect that the RFC-editors will handle those.

The one thing that stuck out to me is the following: It helps in documents such
as this to be more precise about exactly what a measurement tool or tester
should consider success or failure. One piece of text where this precision
should be improved is in the Soak Test (both 3.12 and 4.11):
  "The CPU spike is determined as the CPU usage which shoots at 40 to 50
  percent of the average usage.
    The average value vary from device to device.  Memory leak is determined
   by increase usage of the memory for EVPN process.  The expectation is
   under steady state the memory usage for EVPN process should not
   increase."
Perhaps something like the following for defining CPU spikes might be helpful:
"A CPU spike is defined as a sudden increase and subsequent decrease in usage
from average usage to about 150% of average usage." Similarly, memory leak is
very weakly defined. Do you mean _any increase_ in memory usage, or is there a
threshold that you want to propose? Do you mean consistent increase over time?
Can you define a leak more precisely in the context of your test?