#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:00:09 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:00:18)
    1. Tom Herbert (tfherbert, 14:00:27)
    2. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf_, 14:02:49)
    3. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 14:02:56)

  2. FD.io CSIT lab infrastructure (mackonstan, 14:03:42)
    1. Mohammed - will be installing Ubuntu 18.04 on Denverton servers (mackonstan, 14:04:39)
    2. Sirshak - no updates re Arm infra, Juraj not available in Apri so not expecting progress (mackonstan, 14:05:09)
    3. Peter - t31 is back in server after SSD swap (mackonstan, 14:05:40)
    4. Ray - it would be great to document the process of inserting new testbeds into FD.io CSIT labs (mackonstan, 14:09:59)
    5. Mohammed - the on-boarding process is getting simplified between LFN and Vexxhost, ETA unknown. (mackonstan, 14:11:39)

  3. Inputs from LFN and FD.io projects (mackonstan, 14:12:00)
    1. AR Ray and Maciek to discuss with TSC. (mortderire, 14:12:08)
    2. VPP update - DaveW - branch pull is today (mackonstan, 14:12:54)
    3. but verify jobs are failing due to some cert issue, resolution in progress, Vanessa in charge (mackonstan, 14:13:45)
    4. VPP wiki 19.04 draft content (mackonstan, 14:16:17)
    5. https://wiki.fd.io/view/Projects/vpp/Release_Plans/Release_Plan_19.04 (mackonstan, 14:16:19)
    6. HC update - Michal - CSIT test updates in progress following ODL upgrade, some VIRL tests are failing due to low memory (side effect of using PAPI?) (mackonstan, 14:20:46)
    7. Peter - noticed VPP using more memory than before.. would require memory profiling (mackonstan, 14:22:16)
    8. HC on vpp_device - Peter - 20/200 tests failing, so not looking for 19.04, but should be okay to fix those for next release. (mackonstan, 14:25:11)
    9. TSC - Ray - mainly focusing on infra issue (mackonstan, 14:26:57)

  4. Operational status (mackonstan, 14:27:57)
    1. jenkins authentication issue per earlier note (mackonstan, 14:28:33)
    2. EdK - reporting it's fixed now (mackonstan, 14:29:06)
    3. Centos CI testing status - Tom - working on Centos image refresh for VIRL, hoping for being production ready by tomorrow (mackonstan, 14:30:47)
    4. Tom - will then look at Centos in vpp_device (mackonstan, 14:31:06)

  5. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 14:31:27)
    1. trending failures: ipsec tunnel-interface scale tests failing due to mbuf shortage. same for 8t4c + vhost/memif also failing due to mbuf shortage. likely related to new buffer structure work done within 19.04 cycle. (mackonstan, 14:35:27)
    2. Peter continues to t/shoot (mackonstan, 14:35:42)

  6. Releases (mackonstan, 14:37:33)
    1. CSIT-1904 plan (mackonstan, 14:38:31)
    2. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1904_plan (mackonstan, 14:38:42)
    3. CSIT PAPI Support - partial in 19.04 (mackonstan, 14:39:15)
    4. Vratio - soak - one bug fixed, need to decide on what to include in 19.04 report (mackonstan, 14:43:49)
    5. Vratko - per-vpp-patch - no progress, still seeing false positives on the same vpp commit (mackonstan, 14:44:35)
    6. arm items - Sirshak - partially completed, expecting completion in next rls. (mackonstan, 14:44:57)

  7. Developments - Installer (mackonstan, 14:45:20)
    1. CSIT development environment - documentation gaps - DaveW, Peter - addressed with new patch (mackonstan, 14:46:39)

  8. Developments - Framework (mackonstan, 14:50:22)
    1. VAT to PAPI migration - partially done, delayed by a.o. different handling of default values by vat vs. papi (mackonstan, 14:54:36)
    2. DaveW - will look at streamlining the extraction of default values used by VAT today (mackonstan, 14:55:53)
    3. automate VPP-API "Flag Day" - DaveW - working with Ole to generate the API signature (mackonstan, 14:56:55)

  9. Developments - New tests (mackonstan, 14:58:11)
    1. NFV density tests - VPP in VM (mackonstan, 14:59:20)

  10. TRex (mackonstan, 14:59:56)
    1. TRex upgrade - Peter - hit few bugs - are fixed in TRex master but not in release (mackonstan, 15:00:26)

  11. other business (mackonstan, 15:02:09)
    1. Vratko - propose to start 19.04 dry runs earlier, to avoid surprises, as many changes in both VPP and CSIT (mackonstan, 15:04:25)
    2. all agreed it makes sense to start 19.04 release dry runs as of rc1 (mackonstan, 15:04:45)


Meeting ended at 15:04:48 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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  2. collabot (4)
  3. mortderire (2)
  4. dwallacelf_ (1)
  5. jgelety (1)
  6. tfherbert (1)


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