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#fdio-meeting: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting
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Meeting started by mackonstan at 13:58:33 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-meeting/2021/fd_io_csit_project_meeting/fdio-meeting-fd_io_csit_project_meeting.2021-08-04-13.58.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Tibor Frank  (tifrank, 14:01:44)
* Peter Mikus  (pmikus, 14:01:55)
* Vratko Polak.  (vrpolak, 14:01:59)
* Agenda bashing  (mackonstan, 14:02:54)

* Inputs from projects - VPP  (mackonstan, 14:03:07)
  * Juraj Linkeš  (jlinkes, 14:03:19)
  * Dave, nothing new.  (mackonstan, 14:03:24)

* Inputs from projects - TSC  (mackonstan, 14:03:35)
  * Vratko, re committers at large, new mailer created, some commiters'
    emails in info.yaml file are outdated  (mackonstan, 14:04:51)
  * Vratko, request sent for self-nominations to this mailer
    (mackonstan, 14:05:02)
  * Vratko, links to calico-vpp webinar published  (mackonstan,
    14:05:41)
  * LINK: https://fd.io/latest/webinars/calico_vpp/  <--  Past webinar
    with presentation and video.  (vrpolak, 14:05:54)

* Inputs from projects - VSAP  (mackonstan, 14:05:57)

* New tests  (mackonstan, 14:06:25)
  * re flow "offload" patch  (mackonstan, 14:06:57)
  * Fan, there are currently no performance tests  (mackonstan,
    14:07:42)
  * Peter, working on enabling vpp-device testbed with CVL NICs: i) for
    physical install and cabling, the ticket is open with Vexxhost and
    progressing slowly; ii) CSIT code for enabling multiple NICs and
    interfaces is WIP, prototype is working.  (mackonstan, 14:09:31)
  * Fan Zhang  (fan_zhang, 14:20:26)
  * Maciek, Fan, Peter, depending on the type of per flow functionality
    offloaded to the NIC we should think about use cases to test
    performance for e.g. sticky return flows for IPsec and/or NAT
    (mackonstan, 14:20:29)
  * Juraj, no updates re IPsec SPD flow cache patches  (mackonstan,
    14:20:48)

* Releases CSIT-2110  (mackonstan, 14:21:51)
  * LINK: https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2110_plan  (mackonstan,
    14:22:02)

* Releases CSIT-2106  (mackonstan, 14:22:15)
  * Tibor, iterative tests for latency retest are done, except of 2n-clx
    due to mlx test failures and jenkins failures  (mackonstan,
    14:22:47)
  * Peter, investigating mlx test failures  (mackonstan, 14:23:38)
  * Tibor, re jenkins errors, jnlp connection errors, similar to what
    observed, jenkins going into maintenance  (mackonstan, 14:25:02)
  * Tibor, added latency comparison tables to master draft version
    (mackonstan, 14:25:41)
  * LINK:
    https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/_static/vpp/latency-changes-2n-skx-xxv710-2t1c-pdr50-d1-avg.txt
    (mackonstan, 14:28:11)

* Releases Maintenance CSIT-2101.1  (mackonstan, 14:29:42)
  * waiting being out of 21.06 completely and stable jenkins infra
    (mackonstan, 14:30:06)

* Physical Infrastructure  (mackonstan, 14:33:23)
  * Peter, hsw decommissioning and repurpose, going well, Vexxhost
    assisting  (mackonstan, 14:34:09)
  * Peter, old sandybridge build servers are to be decommissioned, all
    handled by Vexxhost tickets  (mackonstan, 14:34:45)

* Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD  (mackonstan, 14:35:37)
  * Dave, will be working with Vanessa and vexxhost to verify the
    situation with jnlp and network timeouts  (mackonstan, 14:38:24)
  * Dave, will be working with Vanessa and vexxhost to schedule jenkins
    and ingress VMs move to YUl1 DC location.  (mackonstan, 14:38:57)
  * Peter, migration to S3, patches are in ci-management, ready for
    final review and merge  (mackonstan, 14:41:18)
  * Vratko, re Oper branches: More verification or remove?, would like
    to discuss it once out of 2106  (mackonstan, 14:44:07)
  * Vratko, re build-failure-analyzer Jenkins plugin, would like to use
    jcasc configuration for this  (mackonstan, 14:45:07)

* Environment, Framework  (mackonstan, 14:45:26)
  * re track and review Intel driver FW compatiblity matrix, Fan, Dave,
    Peter, Maciek, discussion about the formal process to track this
    across the upgrades, driven by DPDK  (mackonstan, 14:58:06)
  * every DPDK ver bump in VPP will have to be accompanied by the
    process of updating the drivers and firmwares on SUT  (mackonstan,
    14:58:29)
  * IOW vpp patch with new DPDK version will have to perf tested in CSIT
    sandbox testbed with associated updated drivers and firmwares
    (mackonstan, 14:59:27)
  * Dave Wallace  (dwallacelf, 14:59:30)
  * Vratko, re scale tests, working on the solution  (mackonstan,
    14:59:56)
  * Viliam, re errors markup in csit-report emails, all comments
    addressed, ready for final reviews  (mackonstan, 15:01:44)



Meeting ended at 15:02:21 UTC.



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