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#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting
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Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:00:52 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-csit/2020/fdio-csit.2020-02-26-15.00.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Jan Gelety  (jgelety, 15:01:14)
* Tibor Frank  (tifrank, 15:01:16)
* Vratko Polak.  (vrpolak, 15:01:17)
* Agenda bashing  (mackonstan, 15:01:38)

* Physical labs, testbeds  (mackonstan, 15:03:14)
  * Ed - vpp-csit-api-crc job failures for not API changing patches.
    Vratko following up on it.  (mackonstan, 15:10:56)
  * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/22698  <-- This got fake +1 due
    to naginator, and merge broke crc checks.  (vrpolak, 15:12:42)
  * Peter - re 19.08 LTS tests - issue with re-provisioning the
    testbeds, as the execution environment has changed e.g. moved from
    Python 2.7 to 3.x.  (mackonstan, 15:14:59)
  * Peter - will start email thread on csit-dev  (mackonstan, 15:17:56)

* Inputs from projects  (mackonstan, 15:23:23)
  * TSC - Vratko reporting - lab access discussion, fd.io dev event
    co-located with dpdk dev event in Bordeaux in Sep/Oct.  (mackonstan,
    15:25:17)

* Release CSIT-2001  (mackonstan, 15:25:30)
  * Jan - testing - finished performance selected for repeatibility on
    2n-dnv (10/10), 3n-dnv (10/10), tsh (8/10), 2n-clx (5/10, 3 running
    ETA Fri).  (mackonstan, 15:28:35)
  * Jan - testing - complete set of performance tests: 2n-clx number of
    AVF xxv710 tests are failing (link down on TRex) and RDMA cx553a
    9000B tests failing (due to TRex crash).  (mackonstan, 15:31:23)
  * Jan - testing - 2n-clx AVF xxv710 tests failures (link down on TRex)
    are observed for ip4 tests only  (mackonstan, 15:34:02)
  * Report content & generation - Tibor - update re latest working
    version on master, added test data, bug fixes.  (mackonstan,
    15:38:55)
  * Report - Tibor - hoststack tests static content and rendering code
    in gerrit under review, reconfig and soak tests need 2n-skx testbeds
    (will be available after ucode issue is resolved).  (mackonstan,
    15:40:38)
  * Skx tests - Maciek - based on the discussion on this call, we are
    shooting to release 2n-skx and 3n-skx test results by 11-Mar, 2
    weeks from now, following investigation with Intel.  (mackonstan,
    15:45:02)

* Release CSIT-1908  (mackonstan, 15:45:20)
  * CSIT needs to test VPP stable/1908 - dependency on resolving the
    environment dependencies as noted earlier on this call by Peter.
    (mackonstan, 15:46:34)
  * CSIT-1908 maintenance should have a list of tests specified ahead of
    time, should be aligned with 19.08.1.  (mackonstan, 15:48:13)
  * ACTION: Jan, Maciek to review the 19.08.1 test list, and produce a
    list for 19.08.2  (mackonstan, 15:48:39)

* Operations  (mackonstan, 15:49:03)
  * Peter - we would need to upgrade all skx machines to specific BIOS
    version once ucode issue resolution and recommendation comes from
    Intel. This takes a day to notify Vexxhost on-site team, and a day
    to upgrade all machines (14 skx hosts).  (mackonstan, 15:50:47)
  * Govind - kernel -72 includes spectre-meltdown fixes but no
    performance micro-code updates. Recommendation is to move. Peter and
    Juraj will coordinate the kernel upgrade.  (mackonstan, 15:55:08)

* VPP code performance  (mackonstan, 15:55:18)
  * Peter - number of issues with AVF initialisation, investigating.
    (mackonstan, 15:58:04)
  * Vratko - investigating stdev increase observed for vhost tests due
    to different vhost rxq to worker placement.  (mackonstan, 16:00:21)



Meeting ended at 16:01:26 UTC.



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