#fdio-meeting: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:00:44 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 14:00:59)
    2. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:01:09)
    3. Maciek Konstantynowic (mackonstan, 14:04:28)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:04:56)
  3. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 14:05:09)
    1. Andrew nothing new - just need to discuss situation with dpdk bumping patch(es) (mackonstan, 14:05:50)

  4. Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 14:05:58)
    1. Dave/Maciek TSC asking for quotations before approving any new SPR a.o. HW orders/builds (mackonstan, 14:06:56)

  5. E810 flow "offload" tests (mackonstan, 14:07:30)
    1. Kai believe we are done with this - need to re-check if there are any open actions here or are these tests running (mackonstan, 14:08:32)

  6. VPP and DPDK version (mackonstan, 14:08:53)
    1. patch in question: 37840: dpdk: bump to dpdk 23.03 | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/37840 (mackonstan, 14:09:45)
    2. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/37840 (mackonstan, 14:09:53)
    3. Kai - the team is hitting some issues after splitting the patch per agreement within vpp-dev community (mackonstan, 14:10:46)
    4. Kai - the team is also checking performance impact (mackonstan, 14:11:39)
    5. Kai - the plan is still to have it as 4 separate patches (mackonstan, 14:13:15)
    6. Kai - significant progress if not finish by next week (mackonstan, 14:13:27)

  7. CSIT-2302 RCAs (mackonstan, 14:14:27)
    1. Vratko re CSIT-1902 3n-alt: Changed performance in VXLAN and IPsec tests - performance recovered to good values, unclear why. most runs show good numbers e.g. 39/40, 1/40 bad, without any code changes. some dynamic runtime property. suggest we wait and see. (mackonstan, 14:17:13)
    2. Kai re VPP-2072 RSS is not deterministic on Intel-E822CQ NIC - had review with the team, default random key is there for security reasons. expectation is that the user would change it based on the use case. see new vpp patch for this. (mackonstan, 14:21:54)
    3. 38304: interface dpdk avf: introducing setting RSS hash key feature | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/38304 (mackonstan, 14:21:59)
    4. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/38304 (mackonstan, 14:22:06)

  8. Physical Infrastructure (mackonstan, 14:22:50)
    1. re add mlx cx6 2p100ge to 3n-alt - need to update the lab_specification file - Juraj to lead, Maciek to assist (mackonstan, 14:24:24)
    2. re add mlx cx6 (cx7?) 2p100ge to 2n-icx and 3n-icx - need to update the lab_specification file - Peter to lead, Maciek to assist (mackonstan, 14:24:55)
    3. re 1 x 2n-spr with mlx cx7 2p200ge - waiting for TRex to confirm support status and required cod (2nd 2n-spr down waiting for 1 server RMA from SuperMicro - no ETA yet) (mackonstan, 14:28:55)
    4. Peter re 2n3n-spr perf testbeds - finishing the updated environment implementation, looking good (mackonstan, 14:30:19)
    5. Maciek - re 2023 part-1: add 4 x Xeon SPR 4RU servers for 2 x 1n-spr vpp_device testbeds and 2 x TG-TRex servers - quotation request sent to Vexxhost (mackonstan, 14:31:04)
    6. Maciek - re 2023 part-2: add 2 x 3n-icxd performance testbeds - asked intel team for more detailed specifications before requesting quote from vexxhost (mackonstan, 14:32:10)
    7. Kai - re discussion about enabling DSA on 2n-spr - Peter confirmed "intel_iommu=on,sm_on" got enabled per Yulong email instructions - Yulong to confirm if it's working (mackonst_, 14:34:44)

  9. Environment, Framework (mackonst_, 14:36:11)
    1. Vratko - updated API msgs used by CSIT (mackonst_, 14:36:46)

  10. Presentation - csit.fd.io (mackonst_, 14:37:17)
    1. Tibor - added coverage tests, vpp_device tests; added filtering with regexp to comparison tables (mackonst_, 14:38:00)

  11. Trending and Test Failures (mackonst_, 14:39:26)
    1. Vratko - 1 high prio issue (H) 2n-icx: some E810-CQDA2 ports not found by PCI address (mackonst_, 14:42:00)
    2. Peter - applied interim fix, will be looking for the root cause (mackonst_, 14:42:27)
    3. Vratko - mid prio issue with hoststack - pinged DaveW: M) hoststack: ip4udpscale1cl10s-ldpreload-iperf3 times out waiting for strace (mackonst_, 14:43:59)
    4. Vratko - mid prio testpmd failing with latest dpdk version: (M) 2n-clx: DPDK 23.03 link failures (mackonst_, 14:48:26)
    5. Vratko - one issue got fixed (mackonst_, 14:49:47)

  12. any other business (mackonst_, 14:50:02)
    1. Kai - one patch from Yulong to be reviewed (mackonst_, 14:50:52)
    2. 38625: Add 100k tunnels ipsec policy mode with fastpath enabled test suite | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/38625 (mackonst_, 14:51:10)
    3. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/38625\ (mackonst_, 14:51:20)
    4. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/38625 (mackonst_, 14:51:24)


Meeting ended at 14:51:28 UTC (full logs).

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