====================================== #fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting ====================================== Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:03:27 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-csit/2020/fd_io_csit_project_meeting/fdio-csit-fd_io_csit_project_meeting.2020-10-14-14.03.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Jan Gelety (jgelety, 14:03:28) * Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:03:30) * Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 14:03:38) * Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 14:03:38) * Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:04:17) * Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 14:04:25) * Andrew, VPP v21.01 rls schedule published (mackonstan, 14:05:53) * LINK: https://wiki.fd.io/view/Projects/vpp/Release_Plans/Release_Plan_21.01 (mackonstan, 14:05:56) * Vratko, it makes sense to keep CSIT-2101 schedule with VPP v21.01 (mackonstan, 14:14:22) * Vratko, it will give CSIT time to re-test v2009 in the updated CSIT environment (mackonstan, 14:14:44) * Andrew, Maciek, per discussion on the VPP call yesterday, CSIT env will be moving from 2MB to 1GB hugepages to accommodate VPP physical memoryt alloc improvements done by Damjan (mackonstan, 14:16:33) * Dave, daily auto-gen VPP rls notes (mackonstan, 14:16:45) * LINK: https://github.com/vpp-dev/vpp-release-notes/blob/master/RELEASE.md (mackonstan, 14:16:53) * LINK: https://github.com/vpp-dev/vpp-release-notes (mackonstan, 14:17:08) * Inputs from projects - VSAP (mackonstan, 14:17:24) * no inputs (mackonstan, 14:17:28) * Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 14:17:36) * Vratko, main thing for CSIT is status of GPLv2/Scapy (mackonstan, 14:17:58) * Awaiting two contributors to give their permission (mackonstan, 14:18:24) * Releases - CSIT-2009 (mackonstan, 14:19:52) * LINK: https://git.fd.io/csit/commit/?id=4bafd0aa54fa78c4c3a6a32281cfa551e61bcafc <-- Contribution from Lucian (Enea) to be replaced by a GPL-able contribution. (vrpolak, 14:20:30) * Tibor, most testbeds done, 3n-skx coverage tests are behind (mackonstan, 14:21:05) * Tibor, CSIT-2009 report is camera ready, few formatting nits will be generatedshortly (mackonstan, 14:25:48) * LINK: https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls2009/report/index.html (mackonstan, 14:26:00) * Tibor, target is to add following test data next week: nat44ed CPS UDP and TCP tests, more of 3n-skx coverage tests (mackonstan, 14:27:08) * Vratko, nat44ed pps/throughput tests most likely in 2 weeks time (mackonstan, 14:27:27) * Tibor, Andrew, Maciek: highlight the most important things, incl. multi-core scaling with 100GE mlx NICs (mackonstan, 14:29:37) * Tibor also RCA will be coming in the next weeks (mackonstan, 14:30:13) * Tibor also RCA will be coming in the next weeks (mackonstan, 14:31:27) * Tibor also RCA for regressions/progressions of v20.09 vw. v20.05 will be coming in the next weeks (mackonstan, 14:31:51) * Physical Infrastructure (mackonstan, 14:32:05) * Tibor, 2n-dnv, 3n-dnv dpdk tests failing, will be looked at by Yulong/Intel (mackonstan, 14:33:05) * Juraj, thunderx2 new vpp_device setup is almost done (mackonstan, 14:33:51) * Keesang, all bios and ucode are aligned on both servers (mackonstan, 14:36:09) * AMD EPYC 7532 zen2 server settings in FD.io CSIT labs (mackonstan, 14:36:13) * amd 2n-zn2 BIOS settings (mackonstan, 14:36:13) * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=csit.git;f=docs/lab/testbeds_sm_zn2_hw_bios_cfg.md;hb=refs/changes/33/29033/2#l483 (mackonstan, 14:36:13) * zen2 servers firmware inventory (mackonstan, 14:36:13) * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=csit.git;f=docs/lab/testbeds_sm_zn2_hw_bios_cfg.md;hb=refs/changes/33/29033/2#l627 (mackonstan, 14:36:13) * amd zen2 GRUB cmd line: (mackonstan, 14:36:13) * GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="isolcpus=0-15,16-31,32-47,48-63 rcu_nocbs=0-15,16-31,32-47,48-63 transparent_hugepages=never iommu=pt amd_iommu=on nohz=off numa_balancing=disable nmi_watchdog=0 audit=0 nosoftlockup processor.max_cstate=0" (mackonstan, 14:36:13) * Correct link: (mackonstan, 14:38:42) * LINK: https://git.fd.io/csit/tree/docs/lab/testbeds_sm_zn2_hw_bios_cfg.md#n628 (mackonstan, 14:38:47) * LINK: https://git.fd.io/csit/tree/docs/lab/testbeds_sm_zn2_hw_bios_cfg.md#n484 (mackonstan, 14:38:59) * Peter next steps: finish applying GRUB cmd line (mackonstan, 14:39:52) * Peter, Maciek next is to run baseline tests l2, ip4, ip6 (mackonstan, 14:40:43) * Peter, job spec is already there, c&p from 2n-clx (mackonstan, 14:42:01) * Keesang, prefers to execute the full set of iterative tests ASAP (mackonstan, 14:43:13) * Keesang, to make a recommendation about reading core frequency during tests, as it is not set to baseline (mackonstan, 14:47:39) * Maciek, proposal for AMD onboarding: run a set of baseline and scale tests for NIC2NIC tests, MRR, NDRPDR - l2patch, l2xc, l2bd, ip4, ip6; 2 runs; review the results; if okay then schedule few iterative runs, if consistent, schedule csit2-2009 run and publish as initial/to-be-reviewed set of results. Must be accompanied by clearly document clock frequencies during the tests. (mackonstan, 14:53:23) * Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 14:53:43) * Dave, ci-mgmt patches: cleaning docker scripts, new CSIT docker image patch, … (mackonstan, 14:55:51) * Environment, Framework (mackonstan, 14:56:02) * MAciek, Peter, plan for Hugepages change 2MB to 1GB (mackonstan, 14:56:25) * Performance Tests (mackonstan, 14:56:59) * Peter, new VPP GSO tests, currently coding iPerf3 … already getting early performance results with and without GSO, continue to tune the tests for affinity/resource allocation, and iPerf3 input params. (mackonstan, 15:01:48) * Vratko, nat44ed astf update, hit another 2 big issues with PPS / throughput: i) negative loss due to TRex server instances interactions, ii) issue with splitting bi-dir to uni-dir value interpretation, optimistic this is it (mackonstan, 15:05:04) * Vratko, CPS patch is (almost) ready for review, early comments welcome (mackonstan, 15:05:32) Meeting ended at 15:06:07 UTC. People present (lines said) --------------------------- * mackonstan (56) * collab-meetbot (4) * vrpolak (2) * jgelety (1) * tifrank (1) * dwallacelf (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4