#fdio-csit: 31-Jan FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:01:44 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:02:15)
    2. Matus Masica (mmasica, 15:03:00)
    3. Marek Gradzki (mgradzki, 15:03:06)

  2. agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:03:19)
    1. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:03:38)
    2. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:03:47)

  3. Inputs from projects: VPP (mackonstan, 15:05:00)
    1. Dave: vpp 1801 released last week, no issues with release process (mackonstan, 15:05:49)
    2. Dave: one open l2bd add/delete patch already queued for 1801.1 rls.. (mackonstan, 15:06:31)

  4. Inputs from projects: HoneyComb (mackonstan, 15:07:05)
    1. Marek: HC rls planned for today, all jobs green (mackonstan, 15:07:18)

  5. Cross Community Infra/CICD Face to Face/Workshop at ONS (mackonstan, 15:11:56)
    1. https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/cross-community-infra-cicd (mackonstan, 15:12:27)
    2. Ed Kern (snergster, 15:12:46)
    3. put it people who will be joining the workshop from fdio/csit side and proposed topics (mackonstan, 15:12:52)

  6. Operational status (mackonstan, 15:13:16)
    1. issues with csit performance jobs being cancelled and ci-mgmt patches disabling trending perf jobs not taking effect (mackonstan, 15:14:26)
    2. Dave: there was an emergency downtown due to Meltdown/Spectre updates… (mackonstan, 15:15:56)

  7. : rls1801 (mackonstan, 15:17:07)
    1. csit code complete and testing in progress (mackonstan, 15:18:27)
    2. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1801_plan (mackonstan, 15:18:35)
    3. draft report published (mackonstan, 15:18:50)
    4. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/ (mackonstan, 15:18:57)
    5. observed general performance regression between rls1710 and rls1801 (mackonstan, 15:24:01)
    6. bisecting led to identifying vpp patches that impacted CSIT setup and performance (mackonstan, 15:26:15)
    7. https://git.fd.io/vpp/commit/?id=952181e (mackonstan, 15:26:25)
    8. https://git.fd.io/vpp/commit/?id=b2e1fe9 (mackonstan, 15:26:34)
    9. https://git.fd.io/vpp/commit/?id=20ec7165 (mackonstan, 15:26:49)
    10. ... (mackonstan, 15:37:00)
    11. Jan: shared the xls summarizing the performance regression bisecting - issue between nexus builds: (mackonstan, 15:37:44)
    12. 18.01-rc0~541-ga3a6ec6 and 18.01-rc1~b4 (mackonstan, 15:38:05)
    13. Dave and Maciek to drive the resolution (mackonstan, 15:38:13)
    14. meltdown and spectre status - following the plan as discussed before (mackonstan, 15:43:32)
    15. ubuntu spectre patches not available yet (mackonstan, 15:43:45)
    16. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown (mackonstan, 15:43:47)
    17. must detail and checkpoint all changes to microcode and bios when moving to Spectre (mackonstan, 15:46:15)

  8. PAL additions (mackonstan, 15:48:10)
    1. Tibor: describing a proposal for automating detection of performance regressions and enable continuous detection (mackonstan, 15:49:31)

  9. Honeycomb tests - func, perf (mackonstan, 15:51:19)
    1. data in draft report rls1801 valid (mackonstan, 15:52:11)

  10. FD.io CSIT lab updates (mackonstan, 15:52:48)
    1. lab extensions with XEON Skylake servers - equipment is still in transit (mackonstan, 15:53:17)
    2. ARM additions to CSIT labs - Brian upating (mackonstan, 15:57:26)
    3. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/CSIT_LF_testbed (mackonstan, 15:57:34)
    4. Brian will add latest Aarch64 machines inventory on wiki (mackonstan, 16:01:35)


Meeting ended at 16:02:30 UTC (full logs).

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  3. tifrank (2)
  4. mgradzki (1)
  5. jgelety (1)
  6. dwallacelf (1)
  7. snergster (1)
  8. mmasica (1)


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