#fdio-meeting: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:05:38 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Maciek Konstantynowicz (mackonstan, 15:05:46)
    2. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 15:05:54)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:05:55)
    1. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:06:20)

  3. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 15:07:44)
    1. Vratko - yday vpp-dev call, Lijian/Arm team are working on crypto acceleration, expecting 20-30% improvement for openssl library(?), will be pushing a patch to gerrit shortly (mackonstan, 15:09:21)

  4. Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 15:10:09)
    1. Maciek - DaveW submitted lab extension budget request for cy2024 - see list of equipment noted in one of the previous meetings (mackonstan, 15:12:00)

  5. Intel HW accelerator status (mackonstan, 15:12:51)
    1. SPR QAT2.0 - Kai Peter updating - Peter it is enabled on 2n-spr and can test initialization and uni-dir tests. 3na-spr and 3nb-spr require work due to the use of containers to run VPP instances per NUMA. (mackonstan, 15:17:21)
    2. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:19:02)
    3. SNR QAT2.0 - Peter - CPU replacement units arrived, Ali/Vexxhost replaced them, and working on getting them to boot successfully. (mackonstan, 15:20:48)
    4. aside - ICX-D installation - Peter Maciek Dave - Ali/Vexxhost had to use cables from Vexxhost stock, we should replenish "used 2X 4 ft DAC SFP28cables brand 10GTEK", $15 on amazon. (mackonstan, 15:22:43)
    5. agreement - Dave Maciek Peter - ask Ali/Vexxhost to invoice LFN for those cables (mackonstan, 15:24:33)
    6. agreement2 - Peter Dave Maciek - agreed to involve Vexxhost team in reviewing the new equipment shipping list and highlight any gaps (e.g. rail kits, cables) before the shipment is executed (mackonstan, 15:26:20)
    7. SPR DSA - Peter - BIOS v1.4 - updated on all devices 2n-, 3n-spr. 1n-spr to be updated. DSA enabled in BIOS. (mackonstan, 15:27:37)

  6. 1n-spr work (mackonstan, 15:29:18)
    1. Peter - interfaces vanishing issue fixed, currently only IP timeouts happening sporadically (mackonstan, 15:30:11)
    2. back to hw accelerator - E810 GTPU offload - Kai - intel team are looking at the results (mackonstan, 15:31:37)

  7. CSIT-2310 (mackonstan, 15:31:56)
    1. testing - Tibor - all testing done incl. coverage, last testbed was 3nb-spr, finished earlier today. okay for LFN IT Vanessa to go ahead with maintenance of: Production Jenkins, Sandbox Jenkins, Gerrit, Jira. (mackonstan, 15:33:37)
    2. Tibor - 23.10 rls was very smooth, few hiccups fixed by Peter. no unexpected bugs or issues from Tibor's perspective. (mackonstan, 15:34:38)
    3. Tibor - latest coverage results will be published in csit.fd.io by tomorrow, as it takes up to 24hrs to process all results. (mackonstan, 15:35:25)
    4. Tibor - during rls testing implemented some improvements based on Vratko's feedback: i) more info for off-canvas, ii) more links, few more (total of 5 small tweaks). (mackonstan, 15:36:50)
    5. Tibor - added GSO tests to iterative tests - see rls report data - box graphs, comparison. (mackonstan, 15:37:36)
    6. Vratko - in documentation rls notes - new issues got added - total of 8 issues (mackonstan, 15:39:10)
    7. https://csit.fd.io/cdocs/release_notes/current/vpp_performance/#new (mackonstan, 15:39:22)
    8. CSIT-1935 rls 2310: Zero traffic reported in udpquic tests (mackonstan, 15:41:36)
    9. https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1935 (mackonstan, 15:41:44)
    10. CSIT-1936 TRex occasionally sees link down in L2 perf tests (mackonstan, 15:42:43)
    11. https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1936 (mackonstan, 15:42:53)
    12. CSIT-1937 Small but frequent loss in ASTF UDP on cx7 mlx5 (mackonstan, 15:45:27)
    13. https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1937 (mackonstan, 15:45:34)
    14. CSIT-1938 3n-alt: high scale ipsec policy tests may crash VPP (mackonstan, 15:45:40)
    15. https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1938 (mackonstan, 15:45:45)
    16. CSIT-1939 3na-spr: VPP fails to start in first two test cases (mackonstan, 15:45:52)
    17. https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1939 (mackonstan, 15:45:58)
    18. CSIT-1940 hardware acceleration does not work yet (mackonstan, 15:46:05)
    19. https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1940 (mackonstan, 15:46:12)
    20. CSIT-1941 TRex may wrongly detect link bandwidth (mackonstan, 15:46:17)
    21. https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1941 (mackonstan, 15:46:23)
    22. CSIT-1942 3nb-spr hoststack: interface not up after first test (mackonstan, 15:46:30)
    23. RCAs - Vratko - 2 RCAs (mackonstan, 15:48:00)
    24. https://csit.fd.io/cdocs/release_notes/current/vpp_performance/#root-cause-analysis-for-regressions (mackonstan, 15:48:02)

  8. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 15:49:10)
    1. maintenance tomorrow - see note above (mackonstan, 15:49:17)

  9. Environment, Framework (mackonstan, 15:49:38)
    1. 39549: interface dpdk avf: introducing setting RSS hash key feature | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/39549 (vrpolak, 15:50:28)
    2. Vratko - someone added an VPP API call to set the RSS key (mackonstan, 15:50:40)
    3. 39549: interface dpdk avf: introducing setting RSS hash key feature | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/39549 (mackonstan, 15:50:42)
    4. Vratko - running gerrit triggered perf tests that are still to complete (mackonstan, 15:51:20)
    5. re CLI without API - Vratko - some virtio vhost tests failing due to typo - fix is easy, see jira ticket (mackonstan, 15:52:57)
    6. https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-2088 virtio: bad CLI argument parsing introduced with tx-queue-size (mackonstan, 15:53:37)

  10. Trending and Test Failures (mackonstan, 15:54:11)
    1. Tibor - we are back to normal trending cadence (mackonstan, 15:54:37)
    2. Vratko - still working through the coverage results, will move to trending next (mackonstan, 15:55:43)
    3. Vratko - for the first time no difference observed between release and trending testing. (mackonstan, 15:56:23)


Meeting ended at 15:56:43 UTC (full logs).

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