#fdio-csit: csit weekly 161130

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:00:44 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Jan Gelety (jgelety1, 15:00:58)
    2. Peter Mikus (pmikus, 15:01:25)
    3. Matej Klotton (mklotton, 15:01:47)
    4. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:01:51)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:02:52)
  3. Inputs from FD.io projects (mackonstan, 15:03:16)
  4. VPP (mackonstan, 15:03:34)
    1. VPP 17.01 code freeze: F0 2016-12-07 APIs frozen. Only low-risk changes accepted on main branch. (mackonstan, 15:04:36)
    2. we should track explicitly test coverage of vpp1701 rls deliverables as listed here: (mackonstan, 15:06:20)
    3. https://wiki.fd.io/view/Projects/vpp/Release_Plans/Release_Plan_17.01 (mackonstan, 15:06:23)

  5. HoneyComb (mackonstan, 15:07:00)
    1. Sam - HC jobs still failiing, after HC project split - result of jjb renaming. fix ETA unknown. (mackonstan, 15:07:48)

  6. TLDK (mackonstan, 15:07:55)
    1. Peter - tldk mega-patch got split into number of separate ones. (mackonstan, 15:09:34)
    2. Konstantin from TLDK team - need Centos in VIRL. (mackonstan, 15:10:16)

  7. FD.io CSIT operational status (mackonstan, 15:12:10)
    1. Peter - quite a few hiccups with infra connectivity (mackonstan, 15:12:30)
    2. Ed - there was an underlying problem with OpenStack cloud, impacting Jenkins slaves (mackonstan, 15:12:53)
    3. TLDK team will sent full list of requirement (packages) to be installed on VIRL images (pmikus, 15:12:54)
    4. Ed - finally LF IT team produced a script monitoring the size of jobs queue (mackonstan, 15:13:36)
    5. libpcap packages (libpcap-dev.deb, libpcap0.8.deb) are installed in VIRL image for ubuntu v1.5 (pmikus, 15:13:44)
    6. TLDK/DPDK-perf commits were reviewed with relevant comments (pmikus, 15:14:32)
    7. Ed - correction, there is Eng human being producing a script monitoring the size of jobs queue (mackonstan, 15:14:49)
    8. failing job for no apparent reason (mackonstan, 15:16:51)
    9. https://jenkins.fd.io/job/vpp-csit-verify-virl-master/2442/robot/ (mackonstan, 15:16:55)
    10. Tests & Tests & Tests.Tests.Func.Ipv4.Ipv4 Untagged.TC05: DUT1 and DUT2 route IPv4 between TG interfaces, Tags: 3_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO, HW_ENV, VM_ENV, Message: 5 != 1 (mackonstan, 15:17:27)
    11. dwallacelf, pmikus - to work this one. (mackonstan, 15:20:37)

  8. Test environment infra topics (mackonstan, 15:21:55)
  9. vhost NDR results still low per csit1609 report note - CPU jitter fixes with CFS settings - status (mackonstan, 15:23:12)
    1. Peter - still having issues with VPP timeouts after applying new CFS settings (mackonstan, 15:24:07)

  10. Adding Centos - func VIRL (mackonstan, 15:24:17)
    1. no update (mackonstan, 15:24:21)

  11. Performance tests (mackonstan, 15:24:35)
  12. adding cryptodev tests (mackonstan, 15:25:31)
    1. Sergio - developing CSIT tests for cryptodev performance (mackonstan, 15:25:48)
    2. Kirill Rybalchenko working on performance (mackonstan, 15:27:10)
    3. need to plan HW crypto card insertion into perf testbed, but do that after tests are running in SW (mackonstan, 15:29:04)
    4. Sergio - examples of ipsec tests: gre, etc - make sense to agree on the sequence of tests and use cases on csit-dev and maybe dedicated TWS call (mackonstan, 15:32:10)
    5. functional tests - Sergio - issues with not all options ipsec not supported by VPP API (mackonstan, 15:33:28)
    6. issue with scapy supporting AES-GCM cipher - need to move to newer version (mackonstan, 15:34:48)
    7. detail in email thread: [csit-dev] AES-GCM support for ipsec tests (mackonstan, 15:34:57)

  13. DPDK perf baseline pre VPP integration (mackonstan, 15:36:27)
    1. Peter - separate gerrit patches are already under view (mackonstan, 15:36:55)
    2. Peter - separate gerrit patches are already under review (mackonstan, 15:37:12)

  14. trending baseline tests (mackonstan, 15:38:04)
    1. DPDK-perf patches https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/3961/ https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/3960/ (pmikus, 15:38:22)

  15. trending baseline tests - one-core, multi-core (mackonstan, 15:38:23)
    1. trending graphs look to high for 4 worker threads - 35Mpps per xl710 port is just too high for two ports (mackonstan, 15:42:42)
    2. https://jenkins.fd.io/view/csit/job/csit-vpp-verify-perf-master-nightly-all/plot/RFC2544%3ANDR/ (mackonstan, 15:42:55)

  16. • impact of quad-loop code on ip4-lookup (mackonstan, 15:45:03)
    1. Tibor posted report in email to csit-dev (mackonstan, 15:45:11)

  17. online documentation (mackonstan, 15:46:02)
    1. docs.fd.io (ChrisPriceAB, 15:46:43)
    2. https://docs.fd.io/ (edwarnicke, 15:46:48)
    3. Ed to help with logistics for posting on LF FD.io CSIT project site - logistics (mackonstan, 15:47:41)
    4. https://git.fd.io/ci-management/tree/jjb/vpp/vpp.yaml#n507 <- example of docs job (edwarnicke, 15:48:56)

  18. Functional tests - vpp make test framework (mackonstan, 15:50:07)
    1. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/3992/ <- patch to turn on make test (edwarnicke, 15:51:10)

  19. • integrating vpp make test into verify jobs (mackonstan, 15:51:13)
    1. Sergio - cryptodev can be added into make test (mackonstan, 15:54:01)

  20. Use case tests (mackonstan, 15:54:21)
  21. vhost use cases - see thread on csit-dev (mackonstan, 15:57:49)
    1. wiki page now up with draft compilation (mackonstan, 15:57:58)
    2. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/vhostuser_test_scenarios (mackonstan, 15:58:21)
    3. Alec - suggestion to have a separate dedicated TWS call to discuss vhostuser test scenarios (mackonstan, 15:59:06)
    4. +1 on separate call. Maybe we can get other folks from broader community. (tfherbert, 15:59:39)
    5. +1 here too :) (mackonstan, 15:59:52)
    6. Tom Herbert is "sort of here." but only on chat. (tfherbert, 16:00:22)
    7. yes, let's do, i will propose this Friday PST AM if it works for folks. if not early next week, maybe Tue. (mackonstan, 16:00:23)
    8. Friday is better for me. Will be OOT on Tuesday. (tfherbert, 16:01:02)
    9. welcome Tom Herbert even if it's only on IRC :) any updates from you re Centos intro into CSIT VIRL for folks to be aware of ? (mackonstan, 16:01:05)
    10. I received creds from LF and have access to hosts via ping through openvpn but don't know how to log into VIRL hosts. (tfherbert, 16:01:51)


Meeting ended at 16:03:16 UTC (full logs).

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