#fdio-csit: 20-Dec FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:01:22 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:01:39)
    1. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:02:03)
    2. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:03:49)
    3. Tom Herbert (tfherbert, 15:03:59)

  2. Inputs from LF and FD.io projects (mackonstan, 15:07:02)
    1. VPP - today is F0 milestone, API freeze today (mackonstan, 15:07:59)
    2. hc2vpp update from Marek per email - hc2vpp release is on track (mackonstan, 15:09:24)
    3. hc2vpp API freeze is planned on 2018-01-03 (mackonstan, 15:09:48)
    4. https://wiki.fd.io/view/Hc2vpp/Release_Plans/Release_Plan_18.01 (mackonstan, 15:09:57)

  3. proposal: CSIT promotion to FD.io core project (mackonstan, 15:17:33)
    1. https://fd.io/governance/technical-community-charter/#tcc332 (mackonstan, 15:18:31)
    2. agreement in principle to move CSIT to core project status (mackonstan, 15:19:46)

  4. Operational status (mackonstan, 15:20:05)
    1. Peter: observed sporadic issues with VAT timeout for 2M ip4 tests in trending jobs. (mackonstan, 15:20:36)

  5. rls1801 (mackonstan, 15:20:52)
    1. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1801_plan (mackonstan, 15:22:53)
    2. srv6 perf - Jan reporting looking good (mackonstan, 15:23:12)
    3. k8s cont - Peter reporting looking good (mackonstan, 15:23:42)
    4. tcp tests - wrk in gerrit in review and for stability tests, trex profiles wip (mackonstan, 15:25:15)
    5. netgate cpe - TFH reporting - wip, hoping to get it in for rls1801 (mackonstan, 15:25:48)
    6. TFH - propose to normalize bootstrap scripts to make them less ubuntu specific - after rls1801 (mackonstan, 15:28:59)
    7. TFH - and make Centos an equal citizen in bootrap scripts. for rls1801 for netgate make a specific bootstrap. (mackonstan, 15:30:07)
    8. TFH - add a standing agenda point for generalizing bootstrap for centos, ubuntu, fedora, suse (mackonstan, 15:30:50)
    9. SW crypto-dev tests - Jan: perf tests merged - comparison report in email (mackonstan, 15:32:29)
    10. all agree that rls1801 report should include side-by-side comparison of SW and QAT HW crypto-dev performance (mackonstan, 15:33:35)
    11. CSIT-PAL multi-core scale-up analysis - current patch by Chris unlikely to be completed and make it in vpp1801.. (mackonstan, 15:37:58)
    12. Centos7 VIRL tests - TFH last patch works - vhost issues fixed.. Peter has confirmed no issues observed in VIRL Centos7 for last two weeks (mackonstan, 15:40:26)
    13. should introduce nightly jobs with VIRL Centos7 - see them running smoothly, before introducing it into vpp voting (mackonstan, 15:44:55)

  6. Performance tests (mackonstan, 15:49:37)
  7. VPP functional tests - virl (mackonstan, 15:49:46)
  8. Honeycomb tests - func, perf (mackonstan, 15:50:40)
    1. see notes earlier (mackonstan, 15:50:44)

  9. Test environment updates (mackonstan, 15:55:39)
  10. lab extensions with XEON Skylake servers - orders to be placed shortly; (mackonstan, 15:56:02)
  11. ARM additions to CSIT labs (mackonstan, 15:56:20)
    1. 3 overdrive servers arrived, one faulty/RMAed, two others being onboarded by LF IT as jenkins slaves (mackonstan, 15:58:18)
    2. aarch64 csit patches wiki - adding arch param to CSIT testbed topology files: (mackonstan, 15:59:08)
    3. Gabriel reporting - all CSIT aarch64 work tracked on dedicated wiki: (mackonstan, 15:59:44)
    4. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/AArch64 (mackonstan, 15:59:58)

  12. tb4-virl3 out of production - status (mackonstan, 16:00:20)
    1. need to stress test tb4-virl3, before moving back into production, TFH to drive the stress testing (mackonstan, 16:00:48)

  13. CSIT TOI planning (mackonstan, 16:02:18)
    1. Brian - preference 1st or 4th week of Jan (mackonstan, 16:02:31)

  14. TRex topics (mackonstan, 16:03:07)
    1. Peter: just updated TRex to new ver. 2.34, being tested right now… some incompabiilty with previous version identified … changes tracked in csit patch (mackonstan, 16:05:49)
    2. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/9366/ (mackonstan, 16:05:52)
    3. should ask TRex project to provide API backward compability or at least if minor changes a heads-up (mackonstan, 16:06:43)

  15. other points… (mackonstan, 16:07:27)
    1. Adarsh having issues with getting CSIT running in baremetal Linux environment, VM environment works fine (mackonstan, 16:11:09)
    2. recommendation to email problem description to "csit-dev@lists.fd.io" <csit-dev@lists.fd.io> (mackonstan, 16:11:58)
    3. no CSIT project meeting next week, next meeting on 3-Jan. (mackonstan, 16:12:18)


Meeting ended at 16:12:22 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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