#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:57:49 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:58:05)
    1. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:01:16)

  2. FD.io CSIT lab infrastructure (mackonstan, 15:02:41)
    1. no open issues on infra, so moving swiftly on (mackonstan, 15:03:18)
    2. Mohammed mgmt switch with qsfp interfaces is installed, to be used for managing thunderx2 servers (mackonstan, 15:05:11)
    3. Mohammed wiring installed per specs provided by Arm team, ports are not up as switch needs to be configured (mackonstan, 15:06:10)
    4. Sirshak correction: above mgmt switch is for thunderx1's not for thunderx2's. (latter is managed by SFP links) (mackonstan, 15:07:03)
    5. Juraj - QSFP cables for thunderx2 servers shipped, tracking info provided. (mackonstan, 15:08:23)

  3. Inputs from LFN and FD.io projects (mackonstan, 15:08:58)
    1. VPP project - Maciek reporting - vpp-19.01 shipped, Andrew will write up suggestions to improve release process (mackonstan, 15:11:17)
    2. VPP project - Maciek - after buffer code rewrite, Damjan is reporting +25% higher MRR throughput for AVF paths in his testbed vs. CSIT trending. Need to investigate. (mackonstan, 15:12:27)
    3. HC - Michal reporting - HC 19.01 shipped, CSIT tests passing with 2 failures expected, fix coming into master, broken test, not HC code (mackonstan, 15:13:56)

  4. Operational status (mackonstan, 15:14:59)
    1. HC - CSIT known issue VPP-649 for honeycomb resolved, tests will be fixed and reenabled in 1904 (michal-cmarada, 15:15:59)
    2. no issues (mackonstan, 15:16:02)

  5. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 15:16:06)
    1. Jan reporting: vpp failures - ipsec aes-gcm fixed now, issue was with activating dpdk crypto backend. (mackonstan, 15:17:37)
    2. Jan: vhost vhost/vm failures - issue with (mackonstan, 15:18:28)
    3. Jan: vhost vhost/vm failures - issue with VM install getting corrupted, workaround applied. (mackonstan, 15:19:02)
    4. Jan: vhost/vm 4c tests still failing, debugging with Peter (mackonstan, 15:19:36)
    5. Jan: lb tests - not reproducible by manual tests in CSIT testbeds, only happens with Jenkins driven tests, implementing coredump collection to catch the guy (mackonstan, 15:20:28)
    6. Peter: avf multi-core tests failing now too.. (mackonstan, 15:22:40)

  6. Releases (mackonstan, 15:22:58)
    1. Tibor: most static content is complete. Methodology section updated and split into multiple pages due to growth in size. (mackonstan, 15:24:26)
    2. Tibor: added graphs: i) NFV service density tests, ii) soak tests. (mackonstan, 15:25:17)
    3. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/vpp_performance_tests/nf_service_density/vnf_service_chains.html (mackonstan, 15:25:28)
    4. Tibor: need to update rls notes for all sections, dmm/nsh based on working tests, HC sections, waiting for 1901 test results data (mackonstan, 15:27:28)
    5. 1901 test data, Jan: delay due to failing tests ( lb, vhost, memif). Selected performance: 3 runs finished, 3 running, remaining 4, expecting all to complete by Monday if no other issues. (mackonstan, 15:32:27)
    6. above line was for 2n-skx. 3n-skx: 2 run finished, 3 running. 3n-hsw: 1 finished, 3 running. (mackonstan, 15:33:37)
    7. NFV density - Peter: all code done, tests work well, need to run them to collect data for report. (mackonstan, 15:35:19)
    8. soak test PLRsearch - Vratko: identified one issue that sporadically prevents convergence.. working on a fix (mackonstan, 15:36:26)

  7. Developments (mackonstan, 15:36:56)
  8. framework (mackonstan, 15:38:09)
    1. Peter working on few improvements in VM and Container areas (mackonstan, 15:38:45)
    2. VAT to PAPI move - Peter assessment 1.5 man-months.. (mackonstan, 15:41:17)

  9. Test environments (mackonstan, 15:41:44)
    1. Peter: preparing VPP job for running vpp_device jobs (mackonstan, 15:42:24)
    2. expecting to productize after csit-1901 rls cycles (mackonstan, 15:42:47)

  10. TRex developments status (mackonstan, 15:43:29)
    1. Peter: lots of fixes in TRex releases. We should upgrade TRex in csit-1904 cycle (csit is on v2.3.5, trex latest v2.5.2) (mackonstan, 15:44:49)
    2. https://github.com/cisco-system-traffic-generator/trex-core/blob/master/doc/release_notes.asciidoc (pmikus, 15:45:18)
    3. https://github.com/cisco-system-traffic-generator/trex-core/blob/master/doc/release_notes.asciidoc (mackonstan, 15:45:31)

  11. Housekeeping (mackonstan, 15:47:17)
    1. looking for volunteers to update the CSIT installation guide that's now outdated on both wiki and git repo (mackonstan, 15:48:37)


Meeting ended at 15:49:11 UTC (full logs).

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