#fdio-csit: 23-May FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting summary

1. 1. Tom Herbert (tfherbert, 14:02:54)
   2. Marek Gradzki (mgradzki_, 14:03:16)
   
   
2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan2, 14:04:34)
   
3. VPP (mackonstan2, 14:04:48)
   1. nothing new, apart from vpp18.01.2, but that's later in agenda (mackonstan2, 14:05:08)
   2. Jan Gelety (jgelety1, 14:05:13)
   
   
4. HoneyComb (mackonstan2, 14:05:31)
   1. Marek - some issues with LF infra, now fixed. (mackonstan2, 14:05:42)
   2. Marek - HC performance tests being fixed, so will be reintroduced into CSIT. (mackonstan2, 14:07:11)
   3. Marek - thinking about java apis performance tests in CSIT. (mackonstan2, 14:07:36)
   
   
5. TSC (mackonstan2, 14:09:45)
   1. Maciek - raised issue with delayed Xeon server hardware delivery, now got confirmation the remaining 14 servers are shpping.. (mackonstan2, 14:11:29)
   
   
6. Operational status (mackonstan2, 14:12:12)
   1. Peter - only one issue: Jenkins going down yday for a while and recovered. All else good. (mackonstan2, 14:12:43)
   
   
7. vpp18.01.2 release (mackonstan2, 14:12:56)
   1. Jan - qemu and memif tests were failing, now fixed by Peter. root cause was the backporting of MRR tests. (mackonstan2, 14:17:51)
   2. Jan - nat44 tests are still failing though, no root cause known yet. (mackonstan2, 14:18:19)
   
   
8. rls1804 report (mackonstan2, 14:21:08)
   1. IPSec performance regression - VPP patch by Radu merged in, per patch perf tests results looked good, improvement should be seen in trending graphs. (mackonstan2, 14:22:26)
   2. K8s/Ligato - Peter - still t/shooting.. (mackonstan2, 14:22:54)
   
   
9. rls1807 plan (mackonstan2, 14:28:40)
   1. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1807_plan (mackonstan2, 14:28:52)
   
   
10. CSIT framework developments (mackonstan2, 14:30:46)
    
11. New integration tests proposal: VPP_Packet_Paths, VPP_Devices (mackonstan2, 14:44:37)
    1. Maciek - see draft proposal sent over email (mackonstan2, 14:44:47)
    2. https://lists.fd.io/g/csit-dev/message/2721 (mackonstan2, 14:44:57)
    3. Sirshak - welcome the proposal, as it's proven to be very hard to use VM/vagrant environment in Arm ecosystem. (mackonstan2, 14:51:10)
    4. Peter - testing vpp device drivers is key for CI, so here indeed functional test coverage of vpp device paths is critical. (mackonstan2, 14:54:33)
    5. Thomas - VIRL is very useful to test packages across different distros. (mackonstan2, 14:56:14)
    6. Need to adjust the proposal to capture the package testing. (mackonstan2, 14:59:48)

Action items

1. (none)

People present (lines said)

1. mackonstan2 (29)
2. collabot` (3)
3. tfherbert (1)
4. jgelety1 (1)
5. mgradzki_ (1)