15:06:25 <mackonstan> #startmeeting FD.io CSIT project meeting
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15:06:29 <tifrank> #info Tibor Frank
15:06:31 <dwallacelf> #info Dave Wallace
15:06:35 <jgelety> #info Jan Gelety
15:06:36 <mackonstan> #chair
15:06:36 <collabot`> Current chairs: mackonstan
15:06:48 <mackonstan> #info mackonstan
15:07:03 <mackonstan> #topic Agenda bashing
15:07:16 <vrpolak> #info Vratko Polak.
15:07:17 <mackonstan> #topic Physical labs, testbeds
15:09:43 <mackonstan> #info Ed - one machine down from the cluster (total 3 servers) running s5ci.
15:09:59 <mackonstan> #topic Inputs from projects
15:10:36 <mackonstan> #info VPP - Dave - v20.01 stable branch pulling today per plan.
15:11:33 <mackonstan> #info VPP - Dave - v19.08.2 maintenance after v20.01 ships, per plan discussed and agreed in the past on VPP and CSIT calls.
15:12:45 <mackonstan> #info TSC - Vratko - 2 news: i) VSEP project officially approved; ii) debdpdk project is moving out from fd.io git to somewhere.
15:13:28 <vrpolak> #info VSEP -> VSAP
15:15:26 <mackonstan> #info TSC - Maciek - we should demand to have a well defined and concrete timetable for FD.io dev community f2f meetups in 2020.
15:15:53 <mackonstan> #info CNCF CNF Testbed - no updates
15:16:53 <mackonstan> #topic Releases - 1908 - no status change - VPP v19.08.2 dependent on CSIT productising weekly stable/1908 performance jobs
15:18:49 <mackonstan> #info Vratko - confident no API changes sneaked thru to stable/1908, due to be guarded by api-crc jobs and Andrew Yourtchenko.
15:19:17 <mackonstan> #topic Releases - CSIT-2001
15:20:14 <mackonstan> #info Today is RC1 milestone - Code complete. Pull first release branch. Only bug fixes accepted in release branch. Date aligned with VPP RC1. Start dry-runs to identify CSIT gaps on less frequently run tests.
15:22:55 <mackonstan> #info Jan - pulling CSIT 2001 branch today (rls2001).
15:23:17 <mackonstan> #info Few CSIT patches need to go in before the branch is pulled:
15:24:28 <mackonstan> #info trex_profile patch by Balaji, Under review by Jan Gelety, to make it python3.x. Expecting later today.
15:25:27 <mackonstan> #info Dave - 3 patches for tcp/hoststack tests, merge ETA end of today: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/24252, https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/24254, https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/24337
15:26:03 <mackonstan> #info that's about it, 4 patches in total to go in, before pulling the rls2001 branch
15:31:48 <mackonstan> #info briefly reviewed updated content of CSIT-2001 per wiki
15:31:55 <mackonstan> #link https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2001_plan
15:32:17 <mackonstan> #topic Operations
15:33:55 <mackonstan> #info Govind - re Taishan upgrade from -62 to -72 kernel - did this in Arm internal labs and it failed. Looking to do a fresh install. Will update the community.
15:34:58 <mackonstan> #topic VPP code performance
15:35:27 <mackonstan> #info Maciek - number of tests are reported as failing in daily email summaries on csit-report mailer
15:38:40 <mackonstan> #info Peter - majority of the failures are fixed (vxlan, docker, nf_density). Other issues with TRex + dnv environment - fixed. IPsec HW failing due to some strange behaviour/issue on VPP side. MLX tests are failing, waiting for the final VPP patches. Taishan vhost-qemu having issues (testpmd memory allocation failure), Juraj is following.
15:39:28 <mackonstan> #info Maciek: Upgrade from from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kernel 4.15.0-66 to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kernel 4.15.0-72, introduced Xeon Processors’ ucode update increasing coverage to known (but not all announced) meltdown-spectre vulnerabilities (CSIT code is tracking those by executing spectre-meltdown-checker as part of the test suite). Skylake impact at 2-3%, Cascadelake impact at >30% !
15:41:34 <mackonstan> #info Peter - dnv not touched, need to check with Intel team.
15:42:06 <mackonstan> #info Peter - hsw upgraded on 14th or 13th of Feb, so should be visible soon.
15:44:45 <mackonstan> #info Govind - re qemu failures on Taishan - asking for logs from Peter
15:47:29 <mackonstan> #info Peter - for clx - meltdown-spectre-check diff from -66 to -72 captured in: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/24349/2/docs/report/introduction/test_environment_sut_meltspec_clx.rst#51
15:47:35 <mackonstan> #link https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/24349/2/docs/report/introduction/test_environment_sut_meltspec_clx.rst#51
15:47:53 <mackonstan> #topic Developments
15:48:41 <mackonstan> #info Vratko, Tibor - Deprecated tests: DMM, TLDK - removed from master
15:49:23 <mackonstan> #topic TRex
15:50:41 <mackonstan> #info seeing progressions after TRex upgrade to v2.73 (includes patch to the firmware to remove the limit of 27Mpps for TRex).
15:52:08 <mackonstan> #topic CSIT-2001 report draft
15:52:10 <mackonstan> #link https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/
15:52:32 <mackonstan> #info test data is old or fake
15:58:10 <mackonstan> #info Tibor - additions to master already in: new latency hdrhistogram, new comparison tables, full TODO list will be send to csit-dev.
16:00:30 <mackonstan> #endmeeting