#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:01:41 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:01:52)

  2. lab infra (mackonstan, 15:01:59)
    1. Mohammed: got 40ge switch for thunderx mgmt, can't get it work. (mackonstan, 15:03:01)
    2. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:03:45)
    3. Michal Cmarada (honeycomb) (michal-cmarada, 15:04:19)
    4. Mohammed: switch is baremetal without OS, followed instructions to no avail. Tech contact provided by Arm is not responding. (mackonstan, 15:04:30)
    5. Juraj: will coordinate with Mohammed and Arm side (mackonstan, 15:07:02)
    6. : Mohammed: Atoms not up yet, was missing cables now shipped, should be coming up next week. (mackonstan, 15:08:05)
    7. : Mohammed: aiming to add another rack to FD.io lab, Trishan has details (mackonstan, 15:10:23)

  3. Arm testbeds (mackonstan, 15:10:33)
    1. Juraj: 1-node-arm, waiting for mgmt switch (mackonstan, 15:10:51)
    2. Juraj: 3-node-arm, Tishan performance testbed operational, dry running tests, collaborating with Peter, focusing on L2 tests so far, will be onboarding into Jenkins soonish (mackonstan, 15:12:38)

  4. HW RMAs (mackonstan, 15:13:30)
    1. no open RMAs (mackonstan, 15:13:38)

  5. Non-testbed infrastructure (mackonstan, 15:15:28)
    1. VIRL repurpose discussion (mackonstan, 15:15:55)
    2. Ed to add missing lab infra servers to git CSIT lab files, after Maciek merges them (mackonstan, 15:20:59)

  6. FD.io project updates (mackonstan, 15:21:17)
    1. VPP - 19.04 rls schedule published (mackonstan, 15:24:33)
    2. https://wiki.fd.io/view/Projects/vpp/Release_Plans/Release_Plan_19.04 (mackonstan, 15:24:41)
    3. VPP 19.01 maintenance rls candidate is lb fix by Steven (mackonstan, 15:24:59)
    4. HC - jvpp job finally running in jenkins (mackonstan, 15:25:11)
    5. Michal: once bionic packages built, will be moving from VIRL to VPP_Device (mackonstan, 15:26:30)
    6. TSC (mackonstan, 15:26:46)
    7. no updates (mackonstan, 15:26:49)

  7. Operational status (mackonstan, 15:27:09)
    1. Ed: no massive problems, standard instability (mackonstan, 15:27:27)
    2. HC: hc2vpp jobs pending because of authentication issues in jenkins, currently being investigated. once ready bionic packages should be ready for vpp-device testing (michal-cmarada, 15:28:16)

  8. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 15:28:37)
    1. failing tests - need to clean both: reporting and tests that are failing: (mackonstan, 15:36:30)
    2. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/introduction/failures.html (mackonstan, 15:36:39)
    3. number of tests reported as degrading e.g. ip6 on hsw, not on skx (mackonstan, 15:39:26)
    4. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/introduction/index.html (mackonstan, 15:39:43)

  9. Releases (mackonstan, 15:40:08)
    1. JanG: csit-1901 data collection almost done, 3n-hsw ndrpdr-full finishing in <1hr; publish maintenance later today (mackonstan, 15:43:07)
    2. link bonding tests, ligato - ETA tomorrow. With that closing csit-1901 release, with two bug fixes pending: wrk/tcp-ip tests, ipsec scale aes-gcm. (mackonstan, 15:45:14)
    3. trending jobs to be returned to normal cadence: twice-a-day once link bonding and ligato tests are done. (mackonstan, 15:45:58)
    4. tracking CSIT-1901 (mackonstan, 15:48:43)
    5. https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1901/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.html (mackonstan, 15:48:46)

  10. 1904 (mackonstan, 15:49:14)
    1. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1904_plan (mackonstan, 15:51:41)

  11. Developments (mackonstan, 15:52:04)
    1. VAT to PAPI - JanG: expecting to continue this work once 1901 jobs are done.. (mackonstan, 15:53:25)
    2. need to assess the volume of work required (mackonstan, 15:54:19)

  12. Test environments (mackonstan, 15:54:38)
  13. Performance trending and analytics (mackonstan, 15:55:18)
    1. per patch tests - Peter: moved all to bionic (mackonstan, 15:56:34)
    2. per patch tests - Vratko: need improvements in measurement parts, to make it more accurate, current code can still produce false positives (mackonstan, 15:57:46)
    3. looking for volunteers - VPP perfmon plugin for per node system counters - idea is to measure compute efficiency e.g. IPC, cache hits/misses (mackonstan, 15:59:51)

  14. New tests (mackonstan, 16:03:14)
    1. looking to add following tests: IPSec, AVF driver increased coverage, NFV density (mackonstan, 16:03:45)

  15. TRex (mackonstan, 16:03:51)
    1. Peter: investigating upgrade to latest ver (mackonstan, 16:04:20)
    2. TRex now has complete APIs for ASTF (http-tcp-ip stateful tests) (mackonstan, 16:04:57)


Meeting ended at 16:05:04 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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  2. collabot` (4)
  3. michal-cmarada (2)
  4. tifrank (1)
  5. jgelety (1)


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