#fdio-csit: 15-Nov FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:01:08 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:01:17)
    2. Tom Herbert (tfherbert, 15:01:18)
    3. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:01:31)
    4. Nicolas Bouthors (nibo, 15:01:40)
    5. Peter Mikus (pmikus, 15:02:00)
    6. Jan Gelety+ (jgelety, 15:02:24)
    7. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:02:45)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:03:35)
  3. Inputs from LF and FD.io projects (mackonstan, 15:03:47)
    1. VPP - agreed on next rls to be 18.01 (mackonstan, 15:04:47)
    2. https://wiki.fd.io/view/Projects/vpp/Release_Plans/Release_Plan_18.01 (mackonstan, 15:04:55)
    3. HoneyComb - no new tests.. (mackonstan, 15:07:08)
    4. need to check the plan for HC tests in CSIT with HC project lead - Marek Gradzki (mackonstan, 15:08:17)
    5. TSC - new project approved - pma_tools (mackonstan, 15:09:19)
    6. https://wiki.fd.io/view/Project_Proposals/pma_tools (mackonstan, 15:09:39)

  4. Operational status (mackonstan, 15:11:22)
    1. jgelety - Centos7 semi-weekly job failed - 2 iterations worked, 3rd failed - identified pattern: vpp ip probe, nested qemu startup failures, can't get vpp pid at startup - summary with failed jobs into csit-dev (mackonstan, 15:15:23)
    2. Tom offering to compare the failures with what's observed in his labs (mackonstan, 15:15:37)
    3. pmikus - trending jobs - mthread vhost tests started to fail as 11/11 (mackonstan, 15:17:45)

  5. rls1710 release (mackonstan, 15:18:16)
    1. https://jenkins.fd.io/view/csit/job/csit-vpp-perf-trend-daily-master/191/ VHOST multithread failures (pmikus, 15:18:30)
    2. report reissued with detailed results (mackonstan, 15:19:13)
    3. https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1710/report/ (mackonstan, 15:19:17)

  6. next release - rls1801? (mackonstan, 15:19:31)
    1. initial plan wiki page set up (mackonstan, 15:19:58)
    2. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1801_plan (mackonstan, 15:20:00)

  7. Presentation and Analytics Layer (PAL); (mackonstan, 15:23:02)
    1. PAL additions for next releases: telemetry data inputs - vpp show run, results comparisons, multi-core scale-up analysis 1c/2c/4c (mackonstan, 15:23:58)

  8. Performance tests (mackonstan, 15:24:34)
    1. jgelety - SW cryptodev perf tests are in hand (mackonstan, 15:28:04)
    2. tifrank - SRv6 - high level design done and reviewed - ready for csit coding.. (mackonstan, 15:29:43)
    3. dwallacelf - vpp tcp/ip hoststack should be ready for perf testing (mackonstan, 15:30:54)
    4. pmikus - agree that tcp/ip hoststack is a reasonable target for experimental onboarding onto csit (mackonstan, 15:31:26)

  9. VPP functional tests - virl (mackonstan, 15:32:10)
    1. jgelety - SW cryptodev requires GCM cipher support - requires scapy and pycrypto library upgrades. (mackonstan, 15:32:18)
    2. jgelety - Ubuntu works fine, new nested-VM Centos7 image doesn't work (old one works fine). (mackonstan, 15:32:23)

  10. Test environment updates (mackonstan, 15:33:03)
    1. lab extensions with XEON Skylake servers (mackonstan, 15:33:15)
    2. mackonstan proposal: proposal to add 4 performance testbeds: 2x 2-node testbeds (for no encaps), 2x 3-node testbeds (for with encaps) (mackonstan, 15:35:50)
    3. mackonstan - will send email with proposed high-level specs (mackonstan, 15:42:04)

  11. adding test equipment: Netgate (mackonstan, 15:42:18)
    1. tfherbert - access to devices is finally sorted (mackonstan, 15:43:10)
    2. total of 3 netgate devices available (mackonstan, 15:45:13)
    3. need to decide which tests and what topologies (mackonstan, 15:45:59)
    4. tfherbert to send initial thoughts to csit-dev (mackonstan, 15:46:16)

  12. ARM additions to CSIT labs (mackonstan, 15:46:39)
    1. https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/AArch64#Meeting_Details (nibo, 15:48:17)
    2. kumar reporting - ARM VPP issues tracked in jira (mackonstan, 15:49:09)
    3. https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/AArch64 (mackonstan, 15:49:15)
    4. ThunderX servers shipped - ETA tbc (mackonstan, 15:50:22)

  13. NestedVM refresh - done? (mackonstan, 15:51:29)
    1. ubuntu working, Centos7 - see tfherbert email report on csit-dev (mackonstan, 15:51:48)

  14. VIRL platform infra (mackonstan, 15:52:48)
    1. tb4-virl3 - looking healthy, used for cryptodev SW test onboarding, once done, back into produciton (mackonstan, 15:57:13)
    2. dwallacelf - re show run api - some code there, but not used, pointers into csit-dev mailer. (mackonstan, 16:00:22)


Meeting ended at 20:44:07 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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People present (lines said)

  1. mackonstan (51)
  2. collabot (4)
  3. jgelety (3)
  4. pmikus (2)
  5. nibo (2)
  6. snergster (2)
  7. dwallacelf (1)
  8. tfherbert (1)
  9. tifrank (1)


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