#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting summary

1. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:01:06)
   1. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:01:40)
   2. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:02:59)
   3. Vratko Polak (vrpolak, 15:03:47)
   4. no time change for next week meeting, sticking to current time 15:00 UTC. (mackonstan, 15:05:27)
   
   
2. FD.io CSIT lab infrastructure (mackonstan, 15:05:50)
   1. https://github.com/FDio/csit/blob/master/docs/lab/testbed_specifications.md (mackonstan, 15:07:00)
   2. separate files for BIOS and HW configs for SUT servers (mackonstan, 15:10:19)
   3. every sut should be represented there, right now just Haswell and Skylake servers (mackonstan, 15:10:46)
   
   
3. Arm testbeds (mackonstan, 15:11:01)
   1. thunderx mgmt switch - proceeding with Cumulus OS order&install (mackonstan, 15:11:51)
   
   
4. Atom testbeds (mackonstan, 15:12:03)
   1. awaiting /24 for new mgmt subnet to manage Denvertons (mackonstan, 15:12:41)
   2. action on LF IT (Anton), Mohammed will be taking this on subject to LFN approval (mackonstan, 15:13:27)
   
   
5. Xeon Skx (mackonstan, 15:13:56)
   1. t32-sut2 server down due to SSD failure, there are no spares (mackonstan, 15:15:41)
   2. Mohammed taking action to send email and get it sorted (mackonstan, 15:15:55)
   
   
6. Inputs from LFN and FD.io projects (mackonstan, 15:16:20)
   1. VPP - DaveW - 19.01.1 maintenance about to be published today/tomorrow. (mackonstan, 15:17:06)
   2. CSIT to run selected tests on 19.01.1 for verification. Generate a separate report for 19.01.1. (mackonstan, 15:28:00)
   3. 19.04 f0 03-Apr (mackonstan, 15:28:34)
   4. HoneyComb - Michal update: completed move to packagecloud, fixing CSIT tests that are failing due to VPP API changes e.g. old tap vs. tapv2 (mackonstan, 15:30:44)
   5. TSC - EdK - tooling exploration in progress.. incl. switching to github (mackonstan, 15:34:13)
   6. TSC - Maciek - funding got confirmed, LF BOM work in progress, readout on next week call (mackonstan, 15:36:49)
   
   
7. Operational status (mackonstan, 15:37:14)
   1. LF infra - some gerrit timeouts (mackonstan, 15:37:37)
   2. Centos CI testing status - Peter - VIRL Centos tests are failing, need to update packages, Tom FH can do that (mackonstan, 15:39:31)
   3. Centos tests should be moving to VPP_Device container based test environment, as it's the last set of tests that rely on VIRL (mackonstan, 15:42:39)
   4. HC - Michal - moving from VIRL to VPP_Device, hoping for completion within 19.04 test cycle (mackonstan, 15:43:15)
   5. Tom FH - will look into moving Centos tests to VPP_Device, will count on assistance from community (mackonstan, 15:46:09)
   6. Tom FH - not sure about Arm support though (mackonstan, 15:46:20)
   
   
8. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 15:46:25)
   1. performance trending - Peter - large number of tests failing on skx testbeds, triggered by unsuccessful "clear runtime" call that block VAT console, testing now with PAPI cli wrapper, started to happen after move to VPP bionic builds (mackonstan, 15:50:05)
   
   
9. Releases (mackonstan, 15:50:29)
   1. CSIT-1901 report - new maintenance ver published (mackonstan, 15:50:45)
   2. https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1901/report/ (mackonstan, 15:51:43)
   3. IPSec scale tests still failing - Jan - investigating issues with dpdk backend (mackonstan, 15:59:52)
   
   
10. Installer (mackonstan, 16:01:07)
    1. Peter - ansible part completed. (mackonstan, 16:01:17)
    2. Maciek - baremetal part code complete, needs to be tested, delayed for now. (mackonstan, 16:01:46)
    3. readme being updated with latest instructions: resources/tools/testbed-setup/README.rst (mackonstan, 16:02:27)
    
    
11. Framework - VAT to PAPI migration (mackonstan, 16:02:50)
    1. Tibor - PapiExecutor merged, reviews and interactions with vpp-dev/Ole in place (mackonstan, 16:03:38)
    2. per API call migration work VAT to PAPI started (mackonstan, 16:03:55)

Action items

1. (none)

People present (lines said)

1. mackonstan (44)
2. collabot (4)
3. vrpolak (1)
4. tifrank (1)
5. jgelety (1)