#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:02:12 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 14:02:14)
    2. Peter Mikus (pmikus, 14:02:16)
    3. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:03:36)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:04:28)
    1. Juraj Linkeš (jlinkes, 14:05:14)
    2. Juraj - question about infra work that Ed Kern used to do, and who owns it now (mackonstan, 14:05:17)

  3. Physical labs, testbeds (mackonstan, 14:05:27)
    1. Failing SSD drives: no more failures (mackonstan, 14:05:51)
    2. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 14:06:12)
    3. Peter - SSD spares - no update available from Vexxhost (mackonstan, 14:07:36)
    4. [Ticket ID: YHM-762725] CSIT - s35-t28-sut1 10.32.8.20 SSD failure (mackonstan, 14:14:34)
    5. TSC granted CSIT a budget to start replacing failing SSDs with HDDs of similar capacity, unless Intel comes back with SSD failures' RCA (mackonstan, 14:15:40)
    6. Ray@Intel confirmed no RCAs will be available from Intel, so going ahead with HDD replacement (mackonstan, 14:16:01)
    7. first need to verify status with spare SSD drives that are (supposedly( in flight. (mackonstan, 14:16:26)

  4. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 14:16:50)
    1. today rc1 for v20.05 (mackonstan, 14:17:03)

  5. Inputs from projects - VSAP (mackonstan, 14:17:28)
    1. no updates (mackonstan, 14:17:34)

  6. TSC (mackonstan, 14:17:40)
    1. #HWN-797956 CSIT - s3-t21-sut1 10.30.51.44 SSD failure In Progress Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 (16:58)#info #YHM-762725 CSIT - s35-t28-sut1 10.32.8.20 SSD failure In Progress Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 (16:58)#info #GRV-901433 CSIT - s12-t31-sut2 10.30.51.47 SSD failure In Progress Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 (16:58)#info #ELV-980978 CSIT - (pmikus, 14:17:43)
    2. Scapy/GPLv2 relicensing, currently at step2 owned by Ed Warnicke and Ray Kinsella (mackonstan, 14:18:29)

  7. Releases (mackonstan, 14:18:49)
  8. Releases CSIT-2001 (mackonstan, 14:19:02)
    1. 3n-skx tests still going, full 8/37 jobs finished (approx. 12hrs per job, 96hrs/444hrs). (mackonstan, 14:23:40)
    2. Jan, Maciek - proposal to reduce the full test set - i) exclude overlapping tests with 2n-skx, ii) exclude 2c, 4c tests. (mackonstan, 14:28:03)
    3. Govind - would like to see weekly ndrpdr tests on Taishan (mackonstan, 14:30:40)

  9. Releases CSIT-1908.2 (mackonstan, 14:31:04)
    1. Tibor, Report is published with all available, rls notes are as per 19.08 (mackonstan, 14:32:44)
    2. Need to add pointer to VPP rls notes v19.08.2 (mackonstan, 14:33:23)
    3. Need to add point to CSIT changes from 1908/1908.1 to 1908.2 - need a volunteer for that (mackonstan, 14:34:01)

  10. Releases - CSIT-2005 (mackonstan, 14:34:20)
    1. today is rc1 (mackonstan, 14:34:27)
    2. Jan, plan today to create rls2005 branch and jenkins job (mackonstan, 14:35:17)
    3. nobody raised any flags with patches that should delay creation of rls2005 branch, so Jan is proceeding with it today (mackonstan, 14:36:25)
    4. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2005_plan (mackonstan, 14:37:05)

  11. Operations (mackonstan, 14:37:14)
    1. Dave - starting last Thu/Fri, vpp verify jobs getting processes killed during execution, after long t/shooting sessions, narrowed it down to a couple of Nomad servers, issue not seen ever since (mackonstan, 14:38:22)
    2. Dave - as of this morning Jenkins acting very slow, plus outage due to rogue vpp patch (mackonstan, 14:38:58)
    3. FD.io VPP and CSIT infra update scheduled for Fri 15-MAy 7:30-8:30 EDT / 13:30-14:30 CEST, fd.io zoom link, details in email on csit-dev from Maciek (mackonstan, 14:45:24)

  12. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 14:45:50)
  13. Developments (mackonstan, 14:48:11)
    1. Jan, working on TRex ASTF stateful UDP/TCP tests for NAT44 endpoint dependent mode (mackonstan, 14:50:08)

  14. Other (mackonstan, 14:50:45)
    1. Vratko we should discuss any planned upgrades to ucode, kernel, OS in the context of the next LTS v20.09 (mackonstan, 14:51:34)
    2. Vratko - propose to upgrade the lab once a year, coinciding with LTS, to reduce the number "moving parts" (mackonstan, 14:52:44)


Meeting ended at 14:56:17 UTC (full logs).

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