#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:02:29 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 15:02:35)
    2. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:02:40)
    3. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:02:44)
    4. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:02:46)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:04:44)
    1. Tibor - what are we doing with DMM tests (mackonstan, 15:04:59)

  3. Physical labs, testbeds (mackonstan, 15:05:53)
    1. Peter - SSD drive in t31 failed. Suspecting firmware in Intel SSD driver, making the drives fail after ~1800hrs in operation. Peter taking care of this with Vexxhost contact / Nana. (mackonstan, 15:07:17)
    2. Ed - open ticket with Vexxhost - 3 new servers for s5ci jobs are on different network, can't reach the main cluster of servers running jobs and tests. (mackonstan, 15:08:12)
    3. Intel SSD 1.92TB and 3.84TB SKUs may become unresponsive at 1700 hrs. of cumulative Idle Power On Hours (pmikus, 15:08:36)
    4. https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/support/articles/000038720/memory-and-storage/data-center-ssds.html (pmikus, 15:08:51)
    5. Ed - few upgrades over the year's end break, no major breakages. (mackonstan, 15:10:11)

  4. Inputs from projects (mackonstan, 15:10:35)
    1. VPP - no updates, apart from many patches with API changes, creating the backlog for vpp-csit-crc check job. (mackonstan, 15:11:15)
    2. TSC - new FD.io project voted in - "VASP" - for VPP VCL glue code (mackonstan, 15:12:34)
    3. https://wiki.fd.io/view/Project_Proposals/VSAP <-- New project, approved conditionally. (vrpolak, 15:12:52)
    4. CNCF CNF Testbed - no updates (mackonstan, 15:12:54)

  5. Releases (mackonstan, 15:13:11)
    1. stable/1908 weekly trending jobs - Jan, Maciek - take care of this, aim for a readout to vpp community on the next week call. (mackonstan, 15:15:42)
    2. vpp plan for next 1908.2 maintenance release - looking at scheduling it after v20.01 ships. (mackonstan, 15:16:09)
    3. CSIT-2001 - see schedule (mackonstan, 15:17:08)
    4. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2001_plan (mackonstan, 15:17:14)
    5. F0 milestone today, RC1 and branch pull next week Wed 15-Jan (mackonstan, 15:17:36)
    6. pls update the table in the link above for completed work for CSIT-2001 (mackonstan, 15:20:17)

  6. Operations (mackonstan, 15:20:21)
    1. LFN FD.io CI/CD infra: Jenkins, ... - Ed Kern - all in green at the moment, some long outage reported in LFN backend (OpenStack builder) transparent to FD.io as FD.io jobs run on Nomad now. (mackonstan, 15:22:05)
    2. Peter - planned maintenance as announced by Vanessa on csit-dev for 5-Feb, Maciek to ask to postpone till after 19-Feb. (mackonstan, 15:26:35)
    3. Jenkins jobs: VPP, CSIT, trending - number of failures due to server failures, kernel updates and such. Peter, Maciek - will send summary report to csit-dev mailer. (mackonstan, 15:28:15)
    4. kernel updated on all machines from Linux kernel 4.15.0-62 to the latest Ubuntu upstream for 18.04 LTS is -72 (mackonstan, 15:30:18)
    5. introduced new processor ucode on skx and clx Xeon servers with more/new Meltdown/Spectre mitigation code (mackonstan, 15:32:15)
    6. regression on clx and skx (mackonstan, 15:32:29)
    7. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/trending/trending/ip4-2n-clx-xxv710.html (mackonstan, 15:32:37)
    8. kernel upgrade to be done Xeon hsw, Atom Denverton, Taishan Arm (mackonstan, 15:34:28)
    9. Govind from Arm team offered to assist with upgrading kernel on Taishan Arm machines (mackonstan, 15:35:29)
    10. every CSIT test runs spectre-meltdown-checker (mackonstan, 15:37:06)
    11. https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker (mackonstan, 15:37:08)
    12. vpp-csit-device tests - re-enable voting - Vratko - still not voting - was failing due to tap tests, now fixed. Before enabling voting we need to fix the process of vpp api changes. (mackonstan, 15:38:08)
    13. Centos CI - no update (mackonstan, 15:38:43)

  7. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 15:38:53)
  8. Developments (mackonstan, 15:39:12)
    1. Deprecated tests: HoneyComb, DMM, NSH_SFC, TLDK, Ligato - all are deprecated before python3 migration, apart from DMM and TLDK. (mackonstan, 15:41:12)
    2. Tibor sent email to dmm mailer on 21-Nov, no reply so removing. (mackonstan, 15:41:27)
    3. Tibor already prepared a patch to remove DMM (mackonstan, 15:42:37)
    4. Vratko already prepared a patch to remove TLDK once DMM is removed. Will ping tldk mailer to check for any sign of life. (mackonstan, 15:43:04)

  9. TRex (mackonstan, 15:43:17)
    1. Peter - finally received a working patch to the firmware to remove the limit of 27Mpps for TRex. TRex provide an updated release v2.73 with this patch, and it got merged into CSIT master. Should be on trending pages next week once oper branch picks it up. (mackonstan, 15:46:01)
    2. Nithy - API test coverage - should use this files as a reference to complete coverage (mackonstan, 15:53:17)
    3. https://git.fd.io/csit/tree/resources/api/vpp/supported_crcs.yaml (mackonstan, 15:53:20)
    4. https://lists.fd.io/g/ci-management-dev/topic/29918440 <-- Example of how Vratko become a committer on ci-management. (vrpolak, 15:57:48)


Meeting ended at 16:01:07 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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  6. jgelety (1)
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