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#fdio-csit: 24-May FD.io CSIT Project Meeting
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Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:00:15 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-csit/2017/fdio-csit.2017-05-24-14.00.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Jan Gelety  (jgelety, 14:00:19)
* Agenda bashing  (mackonstan, 14:00:36)
  * Samuel Elias  (selias, 14:00:40)
  * Tom Herbert  (tfherbert, 14:00:41)
  * Peter Mikus  (pmikus1, 14:00:49)

* Centos7 VIRL tests - status, next steps  (mackonstan, 14:03:36)

* Inputs from LF and FD.io projects  (mackonstan, 14:04:01)

* HoneyComb  (mackonstan, 14:04:41)
  * HC would like to start doing perf tests - CRUD operations thru
    HoneyComb, probably also with ODL  (mackonstan, 14:05:25)
  * Dave Wallace  (dwallacelf, 14:05:55)
  * Sam Elias - will post a draft test descriptions on wiki and update
    csit-dev mailer.  (mackonstan, 14:07:04)

* TLDK  (mackonstan, 14:07:41)
  * Peter having weekly calls with TLDK and NSH_SFC testing team - Anna
    and team  (mackonstan, 14:08:22)
  * ci-mgmt jobs are being created  (mackonstan, 14:08:50)
  * TLDK tests are being reviewed by Tibor  (mackonstan, 14:09:01)
  * TLDK tests test user-mode UDP stack functionality  (mackonstan,
    14:10:15)

* NSH_SFC  (mackonstan, 14:10:32)
  * same team working on it as for TLDK, same status  (mackonstan,
    14:10:50)

* FD.io CSIT operational status  (mackonstan, 14:11:17)
  * Jan reporting - no issues spotted: vpp-csit-verify-virl-
    (mackonstan, 14:15:49)
  * Maciek reporting - issue with vpp-csit-verify-hw-perf- - triggered
    jobs - ndrchk tests sporadically failing  (mackonstan, 14:16:29)
  * agreed to move them to pdrchk for now  (mackonstan, 14:16:38)
  * Peter reporting - csit-vpp-perf- m-threaded vhost failing
    (mackonstan, 14:17:02)
  * suspected vpp patch identified  (mackonstan, 14:17:18)
  * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/6540/  (pmikus1, 14:17:27)

* CSIT git branches for vpp-csit-  (mackonstan, 14:18:29)
  * Jan reporting: human error - deleted csit oper branch without
    updating vpp branch  (mackonstan, 14:19:50)
  * question - can we automate the way we update vpp repo with csit oper
    branch, as part of csit oper branch production  (mackonstan,
    14:21:59)
  * Dave reporting - stable/1704 not passing latest vpp-csit-verify with
    using last oper-1704 csit branch  (mackonstan, 14:25:00)
  * Jan handling that  (mackonstan, 14:25:07)
  * Jan wlll produce post-mortem once issues addressed - to see if any
    lessons learned  (mackonstan, 14:26:24)

* Centos7 VIRL tests  (mackonstan, 14:26:42)
  * Tom reporting - two issues - two email threads: i) current version
    of python sefaults in make test  (mackonstan, 14:27:27)
  * Tom reporting - two issues - two email threads: i) current version
    of python seg-faults in make test; ii) TG pci device binding issues.
    (mackonstan, 14:28:00)
  * Tom working on reproducing both issues …  (mackonstan, 14:34:02)
  * Jan reporting - observing sporadic issues with test teardown
    failures - VPP PID not reported - will send info to Tom + csit-dev
    (mackonstan, 14:35:32)

* perf tb1 status - back in operation, root cause report  (mackonstan,
  14:35:50)
  * Peter reporting - completed change of HW (x520, x710 NICs, and
    cabling), but it didn't resolve fully the low NDR rate discovery.
    (mackonstan, 14:38:09)
  * Peter - upgraded TRex resolving LLDP pkt wrong accounting, NICs
    firmware upgraded.  (mackonstan, 14:40:07)
  * Peter - sporadic drops still happen between x710 and x520 - tb1,
    tb2, tb3.  (mackonstan, 14:41:27)
  * Peter + Maciek to do further analysis.  (mackonstan, 14:41:56)

* Test environment changes - VIRL platform - VIRL hosts upgrade -
  tb4-virl1 upgrade status  (mackonstan, 14:43:22)
  * Jan reporting - issues with bogus NS/ND pkts…. emitted by TG node.
    (mackonstan, 14:47:48)
  * suspecting TG node VM leaking or generating NS/ND pkts…
    (mackonstan, 14:49:12)
  * Jan+Maciek - to verify if this systemic VIRL issue...  (mackonstan,
    14:49:33)
  * observed after the mgmt address change …  (mackonstan, 14:50:23)

* adding test equipment: Netgate => functional tests - start with VF
  driver (SRIOV) and PF driver (PCI) for 2p10ge Niantic-NIC - takers?
  (mackonstan, 14:51:44)

* CSIT jobs reorgs  (mackonstan, 14:53:07)
  * Updating wiki CSIT jobs  (mackonstan, 14:53:53)
  * Tibor+Maciek - work on updating content for perf jobs  (mackonstan,
    14:55:01)
  * Jan+Maciek - work on updating content for func jobs  (mackonstan,
    14:55:11)

* adding VPP debug image tests to CSIT  (mackonstan, 14:57:00)
  * Dave W proposing to func test debug images per patch as part of
    vpp-csit-verify-virl-  (mackonstan, 15:01:40)
  * and run nightly job with vpp production image  (mackonstan,
    15:02:10)



Meeting ended at 15:02:29 UTC.



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* mackonstan (51)
* collabot` (3)
* pmikus1 (2)
* jgelety (1)
* dwallacelf (1)
* selias (1)
* tfherbert (1)



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