#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:00:53 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:02:32)

  2. agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:02:46)
    1. Peter Mikus (pmikus, 15:02:48)

  3. Arm testbeds (mackonstan, 15:03:13)
    1. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:04:26)
    2. Michal Cmarada (Honeycomb) (michal-cmarada, 15:05:20)
    3. Mohammed - re 40ge switch w/o OS - installing Sonic now, looking promising.. but not out of jail yet .. (mackonstan, 15:06:49)
    4. Sirshak, Juraj - proposing remote t/shooting session.. but there may be issues with Mohammed team's availability. Offload to email pls. (mackonstan, 15:09:09)

  4. Atom testbeds (mackonstan, 15:10:28)
    1. Mohammed - working on getting access to atom servers, asked LFN/Anton for /24 mgmt subnet (mackonstan, 15:11:35)

  5. Other issues (mackonstan, 15:12:19)
    1. Asaf - asking for status of MLX NICs that were provided (mackonstan, 15:12:49)
    2. Mohammed - need to get tracking number to locate whereabouts of NICs (mackonstan, 15:13:57)
    3. from inventory note - 4 * mcx556a-edat NICs (mackonstan, 15:15:36)
    4. Mohammed - found the tracking number, will recheck inventory (mackonstan, 15:16:23)
    5. Maciek - also need to confirm MLX external dependencies for making it work with VPP.. MLX/Asaf to provide update on this (mackonstan, 15:17:52)

  6. Inputs from LFN and FD.io projects (mackonstan, 15:18:13)
    1. VPP - expecting VPP-19.01.1 soon, few critical fixes going in for link bonding, vhost (mackonstan, 15:19:36)
    2. HC - Michal - expecting HC-19.01.1 maintenance to follow VPP +1wk. Still working on migration of JVPP jobs. Expecting all of this done by end of next week. Will send email with summary. (mackonstan, 15:21:31)
    3. TSC - Maciek - Trishan confirmed the FD.io lab budget got confirmed. Details to be provided this week. Expecting to have proposed lab extension next week. (mackonstan, 15:25:06)

  7. Operational status (mackonstan, 15:25:14)
    1. Ed - after maintenance - jenkins is pretty much "dead in the water" (mackonstan, 15:27:20)
    2. Peter, Ed - opening tickets, Ed poke LF IT team to send regular updates (mackonstan, 15:29:29)

  8. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 15:31:08)
    1. ipsec scale failures - JanG - one known issue with aes+gcm dpdk backend initialization (mackonstan, 15:34:14)
    2. [FD.io Helpdesk #69206] AutoReply: Jenkins infra outage - 100% jobs queued, VPN access very slow (pmikus, 15:34:22)
    3. ipsec baseline failures - new arrival (mackonstan, 15:34:24)
    4. number of memif tests failing - Peter - observed high number of ssh errors on connections to SUTs.. could be infra, but not 100% sure (mackonstan, 15:35:32)

  9. Releases (mackonstan, 15:35:49)
  10. CSIT-1901 report - Tibor - latest .09 maintenance version generation completed, but missing link bonding results, will re-issue (mackonstan, 15:36:57)
    1. https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1901/report/ (mackonstan, 15:37:11)
    2. Ed - ad hoc update - Jenkins problems being fixed, Mohammed noticed very long response times (~6sec response), with "VM live migration" to different phy location got brought down to ~100msec (mackonstan, 15:39:25)

  11. CSIT-1904 plan (mackonstan, 15:43:35)
    1. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1904_plan (mackonstan, 15:43:45)

  12. Installer (mackonstan, 15:43:57)
    1. Peter - Peter, Ed working on full automated install of CSIT framework from baremetal, thru calibration and up to test execution (mackonstan, 15:46:02)

  13. VAT to PAPI (mackonstan, 15:46:44)
    1. JanG started to work on basics, will go full throttle after IPSec problems solved (mackonstan, 15:47:50)

  14. migration to Python 3.5 (mackonstan, 15:48:40)
  15. TRex upgrade (mackonstan, 15:49:11)
    1. Peter - working thru issues with latest TRex version - main one is hitting 27Mpps wall with i40e, caused by Intel NIC firmware (6.0.x). Latest version has the same issue. Bring it up with Ray Kinsella. (mackonstan, 15:53:43)

  16. Test suite generator updates (mackonstan, 15:54:07)
    1. Vratko - enhancing existing test case generator, to make it complete test suite generator (mackonstan, 15:55:16)
    2. Vratko - basic logic is already working. Idea is to keep only templates in the repo. Will be transparent to Xeon, Arm, Atom testbeds. (mackonstan, 15:58:08)
    3. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/17877 <-- generated suites, see ancestor changes for the generator code. (vrpolak, 15:59:31)

  17. New tests (mackonstan, 15:59:54)
    1. Peter: adjusting nested VM to use "thinVM" approach using linux-kvm-image and running kernel module only, simplifying and speeding up VM lifecycle operations and making it easy to launch any networking app incl. vpp/l3fwd/testpmd within the VM (mackonstan, 16:02:56)


Meeting ended at 16:03:02 UTC (full logs).

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  3. pmikus (2)
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  6. michal-cmarada (1)
  7. tifrank (1)


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