15:00:53 <mackonstan> #startmeeting FD.io CSIT project meeting
15:00:53 <collabot`> Meeting started Wed Feb 27 15:00:53 2019 UTC.  The chair is mackonstan. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot.
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15:00:53 <collabot`> The meeting name has been set to 'fd_io_csit_project_meeting'
15:00:59 <mackonstan> #chair
15:00:59 <collabot`> Current chairs: mackonstan
15:02:32 <jgelety> #info Jan Gelety
15:02:46 <mackonstan> #topic agenda bashing
15:02:48 <pmikus> #info Peter Mikus
15:03:13 <mackonstan> #topic Arm testbeds
15:04:26 <tifrank> #info Tibor Frank
15:05:20 <michal-cmarada> #info Michal Cmarada (Honeycomb)
15:06:49 <mackonstan> #info Mohammed - re 40ge switch w/o OS - installing Sonic now, looking promising.. but not out of jail yet ..
15:09:09 <mackonstan> #info Sirshak, Juraj - proposing remote t/shooting session.. but there may be issues with Mohammed team's availability. Offload to email pls.
15:10:28 <mackonstan> #topic Atom testbeds
15:11:35 <mackonstan> #info Mohammed - working on getting access to atom servers, asked LFN/Anton for /24 mgmt subnet
15:12:19 <mackonstan> #topic Other issues
15:12:49 <mackonstan> #info Asaf - asking for status of MLX NICs that were provided
15:13:57 <mackonstan> #info Mohammed - need to get tracking number to locate whereabouts of NICs
15:15:36 <mackonstan> #info from inventory note - 4 * mcx556a-edat NICs
15:16:23 <mackonstan> #info Mohammed - found the tracking number, will recheck inventory
15:17:52 <mackonstan> #info Maciek - also need to confirm MLX external dependencies for making it work with VPP.. MLX/Asaf to provide update on this
15:18:13 <mackonstan> #topic Inputs from LFN and FD.io projects
15:19:36 <mackonstan> #info VPP - expecting VPP-19.01.1 soon, few critical fixes going in for link bonding, vhost
15:21:31 <mackonstan> #info 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.
15:25:06 <mackonstan> #info 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.
15:25:14 <mackonstan> #topic Operational status
15:27:20 <mackonstan> #info Ed - after maintenance - jenkins is pretty much "dead in the water"
15:29:29 <mackonstan> #info Peter, Ed - opening tickets, Ed poke LF IT team to send regular updates
15:31:08 <mackonstan> #topic VPP code performance
15:34:14 <mackonstan> #info ipsec scale failures - JanG - one known issue with aes+gcm dpdk backend initialization
15:34:22 <pmikus> #link [FD.io Helpdesk #69206] AutoReply: Jenkins infra outage - 100% jobs queued, VPN access very slow
15:34:24 <mackonstan> #info ipsec baseline failures - new arrival
15:35:32 <mackonstan> #info number of memif tests failing - Peter - observed high number of ssh errors on connections to SUTs.. could be infra, but not 100% sure
15:35:49 <mackonstan> #topic Releases
15:36:57 <mackonstan> #topic CSIT-1901 report - Tibor - latest .09 maintenance version generation completed, but missing link bonding results, will re-issue
15:37:11 <mackonstan> #link https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1901/report/
15:39:25 <mackonstan> #info 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
15:43:35 <mackonstan> #topic CSIT-1904 plan
15:43:45 <mackonstan> #link https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1904_plan
15:43:57 <mackonstan> #topic Installer
15:46:02 <mackonstan> #info Peter - Peter, Ed working on full automated install of CSIT framework from baremetal, thru calibration and up to test execution
15:46:44 <mackonstan> #topic VAT to PAPI
15:47:50 <mackonstan> #info JanG started to work on basics, will go full throttle after IPSec problems solved
15:48:40 <mackonstan> #topic migration to Python 3.5
15:49:11 <mackonstan> #topic TRex upgrade
15:53:43 <mackonstan> #info 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.
15:54:07 <mackonstan> #topic Test suite generator updates
15:55:16 <mackonstan> #info Vratko - enhancing existing test case generator, to make it complete test suite generator
15:58:08 <mackonstan> #info Vratko - basic logic is already working. Idea is to keep only templates in the repo. Will be transparent to Xeon, Arm, Atom testbeds.
15:59:31 <vrpolak> #link https://gerrit.fd.io/r/17877 <-- generated suites, see ancestor changes for the generator code.
15:59:54 <mackonstan> #topic New tests
16:02:56 <mackonstan> #info 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
16:03:02 <mackonstan> #endmeeting