#fdio-csit: 161214 csit weekly

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:04:46 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. : Jan Gelety (jgelety1, 15:04:54)
    2. Tom Herbert (tfherbert, 15:04:56)
    3. Matej Klotton (mklotton1, 15:05:12)
    4. Sergio Gonzalez Monroy (sgmonroy, 15:05:18)
    5. edwarnicke (edwarnicke, 15:05:33)
    6. Peter Mikus (pmikus, 15:05:36)
    7. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:05:47)
    8. Samuel Elias (selias, 15:05:52)
    9. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:07:37)

  2. Inputs from FD.io projects (mackonstan, 15:08:36)
    1. Patrick Lu (Patrick___, 15:08:40)

  3. • VPP - any questions or clarifications for csit-dev? (mackonstan, 15:09:01)
    1. dwallacelf - maintenance of Vagrant as a working and easy-to-use VPP run & test environment - question was raised about flaky status thereof (mackonstan, 15:10:10)
    2. existing wiki docs are wrong, misleading (mackonstan, 15:10:26)
    3. consensus on vpp call that dwallacelf will put together a proposal for a standard way to build either a Vagrant box, or qcow image, or some other image of sorts (mackonstan, 15:11:34)
    4. same applies to csit 3-node environment (mackonstan, 15:13:57)

  4. HoneyComb (mackonstan, 15:14:52)
    1. selias - producing HC TOC for csit1701 report. will put on wiki. (mackonstan, 15:15:48)
    2. TLDK (mackonstan, 15:15:56)

  5. TLDK (mackonstan, 15:16:04)
    1. pmikus - reviews are still in progress (mackonstan, 15:16:34)
    2. pmikus - completed review and +1 (mackonstan, 15:17:01)
    3. TLDK patch for bootstrap: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/3959/ (pmikus, 15:17:25)

  6. TSC - Sending embassies to neighboring projects CSITs (ODL, OpNFV) - Ed (mackonstan, 15:17:40)
    1. TLDK patch for tests and libraries: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/3958/ (pmikus, 15:17:51)
    2. edwarnicke - TSC is asking for a more vigorous collaboration between related networking projects (mackonstan, 15:18:14)
    3. edwarnicke - get the conversation going (mackonstan, 15:18:43)
    4. csit volunteers needed (mackonstan, 15:18:53)
    5. edwarnicke will facilitate - first between TPLs (mackonstan, 15:19:17)

  7. FD.io CSIT operational status (mackonstan, 15:20:02)
  8. Test environment infra topics (mackonstan, 15:21:51)
  9. vhost NDR results still low per csit1609 report note - CPU jitter fixes with CFS settings - status (mackonstan, 15:22:03)
    1. pmikus - most of code in csit now, one open bug (mackonstan, 15:24:15)
    2. improvements already seen in csit-vpp-verify perf trending plots (mackonstan, 15:24:36)
    3. https://jenkins.fd.io/view/csit/job/csit-vpp-verify-perf-master-nightly-all/plot/RFC2544%3ANDR/ (mackonstan, 15:24:56)

  10. Adding Centos - func VIRL (mackonstan, 15:25:08)
    1. tfherbert - significant progress, almost there, LOS < xmas (mackonstan, 15:29:39)

  11. Performance tests (mackonstan, 15:31:24)
  12. DPDK perf baseline pre VPP integration (mackonstan, 15:31:38)
    1. pmikus - all comments closed - pmikus and mmiklus gave +1s (mackonstan, 15:32:20)
    2. few more open comments that need to be addressed (mackonstan, 15:32:40)

  13. trending baseline tests - one-core, multi-core (mackonstan, 15:33:04)
    1. tifrank - sent email with analysis, awaiting comments from the csit-dev list (mackonstan, 15:34:02)

  14. Functional tests - vpp make test framework (mackonstan, 15:34:38)
    1. no updates (mackonstan, 15:34:48)

  15. Use case tests (mackonstan, 15:34:57)
  16. vhost use cases - see thread on csit-dev (mackonstan, 15:35:13)
    1. two TWS calls done, all minuted on ircbot (mackonstan, 15:36:28)

  17. Functional tests - csit virl (mackonstan, 15:36:38)
    1. no additional updates (mackonstan, 15:36:44)

  18. FD.io CSIT test automation for IXIA Traffic Generator - Patrick Lu - 10min (mackonstan, 15:37:13)
    1. Patrick___ doing a demo of developed .py tools using ixia python apis to find NDR/PDR of VPP in different interface and thread setups (mackonstan, 15:41:39)
    2. all driven from interactive CLI (mackonstan, 15:41:48)
    3. iow not touching IXIA GUI :) (mackonstan, 15:41:56)
    4. all environment setup is in .yaml file(s) (mackonstan, 15:42:48)
    5. pmikus - q: are you still depending on ixia python api library ? (mackonstan, 15:44:04)
    6. Patrick___ - yes. (mackonstan, 15:44:19)
    7. pmikus - q: config done via json yaml file. possible to do it via cli ? (mackonstan, 15:46:02)
    8. Patrick___ - possible, partially. (mackonstan, 15:46:19)
    9. mackonstan: are you okay to push this code into csit repo. (mackonstan, 15:47:47)
    10. Patrick___ - yes. (mackonstan, 15:47:55)

  19. Performance tests - adding cryptodev tests - test scenarios - Sergio, Radu - 10min (mackonstan, 15:48:19)
    1. Sergio - providing update (mackonstan, 15:48:27)
    2. Kiriil Rybalchenko - providing update (mackonstan, 15:49:35)
    3. I have one more Centos question. Centos just released 7.3 in the middle of my VIRL image building. Should I release a Centos 7.3 image as well as the Centos 7.2 image? (tfherbert, 15:53:23)
    4. Kirill confirmed that ipv4 crypto-dev csit performance code is almost ready, will push patch soon, before next csit call - at least that's the plan. (mackonstan, 15:54:14)
    5. I will bring this to email list.... (tfherbert, 15:54:26)
    6. sgmonroy - issues with csit rf performance or time consumption for large scale e.g. 1k tunnels (mackonstan, 15:54:46)
    7. per action from 2016-11-30 - following the initial baseline ip4 crypto-dev, then we need to agree what to test next (mackonstan, 15:57:23)
    8. will allocate 10..15min on next call to cover this. (mackonstan, 15:57:36)
    9. tfherbert - i think as long as you can do _any_ CentOS build succesfully i do not expect much changes in upgrading to higher version from compatibility point of view. It might be just new packages and chaging some variables. (pmikus1, 15:58:36)


Meeting ended at 15:59:14 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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People present (lines said)

  1. mackonstan (59)
  2. collabot (4)
  3. pmikus (3)
  4. tfherbert (3)
  5. edwarnicke (2)
  6. jgelety1 (1)
  7. sgmonroy (1)
  8. dwallacelf (1)
  9. selias (1)
  10. Patrick___ (1)
  11. mklotton1 (1)
  12. tifrank (1)
  13. pmikus1 (1)


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