#fdio-meeting: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting started by mackonst_ at 14:02:57 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 14:03:07)
    2. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:03:24)
    3. mackonstan (mackonst_, 14:03:38)

  2. VPP updates (mackonst_, 14:04:54)
    1. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-grace-cpu-superchip-architecture-in-depth/ (vrpolak, 14:04:59)

  3. TSC updates (mackonst_, 14:05:04)
    1. Vratko reporting: last week discussion about equipment orders for 2023, this week LFN dev&test forum so no TSC meeting (mackonst_, 14:07:14)
    2. #info Vratko reporting: Casey brought up the new Nvidia CPU based on Neoverse V2 Cores: Armv9 with 4x128b SVE2 - is FD.io / CSIT interested in having it in the lab (mackonst_, 14:09:39)
    3. https://www.supermicro.com/en/pressreleases/supermicro-add-nvidia-grace-cpu-superchip-based-servers-industry-leading-portfolio (vrpolak, 14:11:46)
    4. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 14:14:48)
    5. mackonstan - suggest we check with the Arm team (Honappa, Lijian) re availability of any server with Nvidia Crace CPU (mackonst_, 14:18:40)
    6. Dave - just did the lfn dev&test session on VPP Strongswan plugins - two separate plugins by Nanotech and by Intel (mackonst_, 14:20:55)

  4. AMD performance results (mackonst_, 14:23:29)
    1. Vratko - opened a new ticket for bad AMD multi-core scaling with cx5 and rdma-core driver (mlx5 dpdk driver is fine). same combination on clx works fine. (mackonst_, 14:26:11)

  5. previous rls csit-2302 (mackonst_, 14:26:50)
    1. re performance RCAs: RSS patch is still open (mackonst_, 14:27:21)

  6. csit-2306 (mackonst_, 14:27:32)
    1. Tibor - rc1 testing finished, and retest of vpp 23.02 in current csit environment almost done, some dpdk test runs are still to do (mackonst_, 14:28:16)
    2. Tibor - majority of issues fixed, Peter - link stability issues on SPR, still testing (mackonst_, 14:33:53)
    3. Tibor - report will be published using csit.fd.io dashboard (mackonst_, 14:36:16)
    4. Tibor - static content already updated, Peter added csit environment updates, Vratko added methodology for reassembly test (mackonst_, 14:36:44)
    5. Tibor - documentation - following sections require work: rls notes. (mackonst_, 14:36:46)

  7. Physical Infrastructure (mackonst_, 14:37:16)
    1. mackonstan - SPR results are looking good, thanks to Peter for all the work getting them up&running in time for the release - Kudos!! (mackonst_, 14:39:28)
    2. mackonstan - SPR nat44ed performance looks lower than expected, Vratko and Maciek to follow up - most likely related to TRex ASTF behaviour (mackonst_, 14:40:03)
    3. Peter - progressing with mlx6 and mlx7 NIC installs in 3n-alt and icx testbeds (mackonst_, 14:40:58)

  8. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonst_, 14:44:05)
    1. Vratko - jenkins sandbox down, ping Vanessa for update (mackonst_, 14:44:27)

  9. Environment, Framework (mackonst_, 14:45:21)
    1. Vratko - re VPP API tracking > In-progress messages - need to raise with VPP to change APIS from In-progress to Production (mackonst_, 14:47:24)
    2. Vratko - re CLI without API - CSIT is using a number of features without APIs - need to a list to bring it up with VPP community (mackonst_, 14:49:50)

  10. Trending and Test Failures (mackonst_, 14:50:06)
  11. Fd.io Events (mackonst_, 14:53:19)
    1. LFN Developer & Testing Forum - CSIT talk tomorrow Thursday 8th of June 6-7am PDT / 3-4pm CEST (mackonst_, 14:54:03)


Meeting ended at 14:54:06 UTC (full logs).

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