====================================== #fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting ====================================== Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:00:27 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.2021-05-26-14.00.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 14:00:44) * Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:01:08) * Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:01:21) * Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 14:02:03) * Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 14:02:17) * Fan Zhang (fan_zhang, 14:02:33) * Andrew - branch made for stable/2106, v2110-rc0 tag applied (mackonstan, 14:03:45) * Inputs from projects - VSAP (mackonstan, 14:04:00) * Maciek, main patch merged, now need to work on the way benchmark results get presented in the report (mackonstan, 14:05:17) * Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 14:05:24) * Juraj Linkeš (jlinkes, 14:07:22) * Here is the pointer to technical community doc edits reflecting TSC evolution (mackonstan, 14:07:37) * LINK: https://github.com/FDio/site/pull/92 (mackonstan, 14:07:40) * LINK: https://lists.fd.io/g/tsc/message/1531  <-- Ed's e-mail with link to github PR (above) inside. (vrpolak, 14:08:11) * Releases CSIT-2106 (mackonstan, 14:08:11) * Tibor, pulling the branch later today (mackonstan, 14:10:06) * Reviewing status of 2106 content per table in wiki (mackonstan, 14:11:52) * LINK: https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2106_plan (mackonstan, 14:12:00) * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/32025 (fan_zhang, 14:13:22) * Yulong, have 2 patches for review: i) gtpu sw offload perf test case, ii) dpdk options for graph node variants. (mackonstan, 14:16:42) * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/32025 (mackonstan, 14:19:24) * LINK: 32409: Add dpdk max-simd-bitwidth configuration. | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/32409 (mackonstan, 14:19:57) * Yulong, would like to proceed with moving the flow offload functional tests to vpp_device execution once the CVL NICs are installed (mackonstan, 14:21:40) * Peter, confirmed that CVL NICs got received, and will be installed in vpp_device testbeds in the matter of week (currently delayed by the IPS DPDK VF racing condition issue) (mackonstan, 14:22:35) * Physical Infrastructure (mackonstan, 14:22:52) * FD.io DC move in Apr/May 2021 - completed (mackonstan, 14:23:19) * Peter, one CLX build/storage machine down due to CLX failure, Ray shipped replacement (mackonstan, 14:24:16) * Maciek, 3n-hsw testbed decommissioning, see point 7.e. from last week minutes (mackonstan, 14:30:43) * LINK: https://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-csit/2021/fd_io_csit_project_meeting/fdio-csit-fd_io_csit_project_meeting.2021-05-19-13.59.html (mackonstan, 14:30:52) * Vratko, revised the view about keeping one 3n-hsw per point 7.g. in notes from last week, and okay to delete 3n-hsw from csit (3n-dnv have qat and can run qat tests once they are supported again) (mackonstan, 14:32:17) * Maciek, going ahead with removing 3n-hsw from CSIT (jobs, job_specs, trending, report, tests) (mackonstan, 14:33:33) * Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 14:33:50) * Steps for removing 3n-hsw: 1.PAL, 2.ci-management, 3. job specs, 4. lab docs, 5. hardware. (vrpolak, 14:34:45) * Dave, last failures seen over the weekend (git clone failures) (mackonstan, 14:36:11) * Dave, last monday bigger call with LF IT team, discussion about the root cause, the actual RC not identified. Can't repro the problem either (mackonstan, 14:36:35) * Dave, at the moment things are looking good from CI/CD operations perspective (mackonstan, 14:37:11) * Performance Tests (mackonstan, 14:41:19) * Vratko, nat44ed multi-worker tests are not failing any more. (mackonstan, 14:42:24) * Vratko, re avf multi-worker tests failures, situation has improved, frequency of failures has decreased (mackonstan, 14:44:51) * Juraj, also noticed some failures, container-memif tests 4c 8c failing on arm and xeons (mackonstan, 14:45:50) * Vratko, may be related to avf failures (mackonstan, 14:46:32) * Reduce number of tests from trending, iterative, report (mackonstan, 14:49:43) * Maciek, asking for comments / reviews on listed patches if folks care about those tests (mackonstan, 14:50:08) * Functional Tests (mackonstan, 14:51:05) * Peter, Juraj, finally nailing down the long-term saga issue "Faulty VF initialization during DPDK startup when multiple DPDK instances use different VFs with the same PF" (mackonstan, 14:51:37) * Juraj, after a long long conversation and multitude requests to try and test many different / latest-greatest combinations of DPDK stack, that all were broken (mackonstan, 14:52:15) * Juraj, issue narrowed down to a DPDK bug related to switching from i40e to iavf code being in progress, with some DPDK code still using i40e code that got deprecated/removed (mackonstan, 14:53:49) * Juraj, tested patch provided by Ray that forces dpdk to use iavf (mackonstan, 14:55:41) * Juraj, it works now, waiting for official patch from dpdk (mackonstan, 14:56:02) * LINK: https://lists.fd.io/g/csit-dev/message/4337 (fan_zhang, 14:59:53) * Juraj, once dpdk patch is confirmed, happy to add it to dpdk patches for vpp (mackonstan, 15:01:19) * Fan, what is the best way to proceed with flow offload for PF? (mackonstan, 15:01:41) * Peter, these can be supported in perf testbed, perf tests (mackonstan, 15:01:57) * Maciek, Peter, Vratko, agreed that it makes sense to code them as perf tests using TRex (mackonstan, 15:02:24) Meeting ended at 15:04:31 UTC. People present (lines said) --------------------------- * mackonstan (47) * collab-meetbot (3) * vrpolak (3) * fan_zhang (3) * tifrank (1) * dwallacelf (1) * jlinkes (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4