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#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting
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Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:00:54 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-csit/2021/fd_io_csit_project_meeting/fdio-csit-fd_io_csit_project_meeting.2021-03-10-15.00.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* mackonstan  (mackonstan, 15:01:32)
* Vratko Polak.  (vrpolak, 15:01:37)
* Juraj Linkeš  (jlinkes, 15:01:45)
* Agenda bashing  (mackonstan, 15:02:03)
  * Tibor Frank  (tifrank, 15:03:50)
  * Dave Wallace  (dwallacelf, 15:03:56)

* Inputs from projects - VPP  (mackonstan, 15:05:35)
  * Dave reporting  (mackonstan, 15:05:41)
  * vpp-dev meeting happened yday, v21.06 schedule confirmed
    (mackonstan, 15:06:18)
  * Vratko, vpp api change tracking, specifically address CRC'ing
    backward compatible APIs, CRC check job needs a new collection of
    CRCs to check against  (mackonstan, 15:08:18)

* Inputs from projects - VSAP  (mackonstan, 15:10:34)
  * Dave, 2 sets of patches 31333, 31334, by Xi Zhang, one of them
    changing the test environment, so considering this as higher risk
    item  (mackonstan, 15:20:12)
  * Maciek, it will be faster for the key parties to jump on the call,
    walk thru the vpp, ldp, nginx testing path, and then dive into the
    integration into CSIT framework - stakeholders: VSAP (Xi Zhang, Fan
    Zhang), VPP (Dave W, Florin), CSIT (Maciek, Peter)  (mackonstan,
    15:24:47)

* Inputs from projects - TSC  (mackonstan, 15:25:50)
  * Maciek, RayK raised the point about funding server HW for TG
    servers, make sure that this is included by all parties in their HW
    donation planning.  (mackonstan, 15:27:48)

* CSIT-2106  (mackonstan, 15:28:06)

* CSIT-2101  (mackonstan, 15:29:13)
  * Tibor, report update posted last week, added GSO tests  (mackonstan,
    15:34:27)
  * Tibor, async ipsec tests to be added once analysed by
    Vratko/Maciek/other-volunteer  (mackonstan, 15:35:35)
  * at that will be it  (mackonstan, 15:36:08)

* FD.io DC move in Mar 2021  (mackonstan, 15:36:35)
  * Maciek, Vexxhost DC move of FD.io Nomad and CSIT testbed servers/HW:
    MTL2 (1 rack) move to YUL1 complete, MTL1 (4 racks) move to YUL1 to
    be scheduled  (mackonstan, 15:40:59)
  * MTL2 move verified as successful, all issues sorted  (mackonstan,
    15:41:23)
  * Big thanks to Peter Mikus, Andrew Yourtchenko and Dave Wallace for
    assisting with the move, and working with Vexxhost to iron out some
    "teething issues"  (mackonstan, 15:41:32)

* FD.io lab extension in 2021  (mackonstan, 15:45:49)
  * Maciek, following on the discussion at TSC about TG, need to come up
    with a proposal about "standardised" TG platform for all testbeds
    (note any variations if appropriate), the practical aspects of
    operating it in CSIT framework (calibration, drivers, etc)
    (mackonstan, 15:49:09)
  * ACTION: Maciek, Peter, Dave, develop a strawman proposal, present at
    the next CSIT call, drive consensus there, and then bring it up in
    TSC meeting (expect funding discussion there)  (mackonstan,
    15:50:32)

* Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD  (mackonstan, 15:51:00)
  * Tibor, testbed occupancy/util for trending jobs, after optimisations
    longest tests are 7-8 hrs (good!)  (mackonstan, 15:52:09)
  * Tibor, above is about daily trending  (mackonstan, 15:52:21)
  * Tibor, but there are some "bloating" / growing duration weekly test
    jobs, 30-44 hrs.  (mackonstan, 15:53:44)
  * Maciek, need to look closer at how to control this, Maciek/Tibor
    (mackonstan, 15:56:46)

* Environment, Framework  (mackonstan, 15:59:26)
  * Dave, with Peter testing Ubuntu 20.04, looking good, but transition
    from 18.04 to 20.04 is going to take time, due to the volume of
    servers we have (60 +)  (mackonstan, 16:00:30)
  * Peter, having some issues with old Xeon Haswell servers
    (mackonstan, 16:02:24)

* Performance Tests  (mackonstan, 16:05:35)
  * Tomas, looking at trending failures, writing a summary  (mackonstan,
    16:08:12)



Meeting ended at 16:09:57 UTC.



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