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#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting
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Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:01:41 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-csit/2019/fdio-csit.2019-02-20-15.01.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Tibor Frank  (tifrank, 15:01:52)
* lab infra  (mackonstan, 15:01:59)
  * Mohammed: got 40ge switch for thunderx mgmt, can't get it work.
    (mackonstan, 15:03:01)
  * Jan Gelety  (jgelety, 15:03:45)
  * Michal Cmarada (honeycomb)  (michal-cmarada, 15:04:19)
  * Mohammed: switch is baremetal without OS, followed instructions to
    no avail. Tech contact provided by Arm is not responding.
    (mackonstan, 15:04:30)
  * Juraj: will coordinate with Mohammed and Arm side  (mackonstan,
    15:07:02)
  * : Mohammed: Atoms not up yet, was missing cables now shipped, should
    be coming up next week.  (mackonstan, 15:08:05)
  * : Mohammed: aiming to add another rack to FD.io lab, Trishan has
    details  (mackonstan, 15:10:23)

* Arm testbeds  (mackonstan, 15:10:33)
  * Juraj: 1-node-arm, waiting for mgmt switch  (mackonstan, 15:10:51)
  * 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)

* HW RMAs  (mackonstan, 15:13:30)
  * no open RMAs  (mackonstan, 15:13:38)

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

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

* Operational status  (mackonstan, 15:27:09)
  * Ed: no massive problems, standard instability  (mackonstan,
    15:27:27)
  * 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)

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

* Releases  (mackonstan, 15:40:08)
  * JanG: csit-1901 data collection almost done, 3n-hsw ndrpdr-full
    finishing in <1hr; publish maintenance later today  (mackonstan,
    15:43:07)
  * 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)
  * trending jobs to be returned to normal cadence: twice-a-day once
    link bonding and ligato tests are done.  (mackonstan, 15:45:58)
  * tracking CSIT-1901  (mackonstan, 15:48:43)
  * LINK:
    https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1901/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.html
    (mackonstan, 15:48:46)

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

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

* Test environments  (mackonstan, 15:54:38)

* Performance trending and analytics  (mackonstan, 15:55:18)
  * per patch tests - Peter: moved all to bionic  (mackonstan, 15:56:34)
  * 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)
  * 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)

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

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



Meeting ended at 16:05:04 UTC.



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* mackonstan (53)
* collabot` (4)
* michal-cmarada (2)
* tifrank (1)
* jgelety (1)



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