#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting summary

1. 1. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 14:02:11)
   2. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 14:02:14)
   3. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 14:02:18)
   
   
2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:02:21)
   1. Juraj: question of about adding new jobs (mackonstan, 14:02:39)
   2. Maciek: adding a new 2-node amd testbed (mackonstan, 14:03:07)
   
   
3. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 14:04:09)
   1. Dave - no updates, all on track (mackonstan, 14:04:19)
   
   
4. Inputs from projects - VSAP (mackonstan, 14:04:31)
   1. Dave - meeting happened yesterday, major topics: packaging, csit patches refactor agreement to align with hoststack (mackonstan, 14:05:40)
   2. Dave - it wasn't a public meeting, so no notes (mackonstan, 14:06:00)
   
   
5. Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 14:06:18)
   1. Vratko - no actual progress on GPL relicensing, this week TSC meeting not happening due to volume PTOs, proposal to have monthly webinars (1st is end of August about IPsec performance) (mackonstan, 14:07:32)
   
   
6. Releases - CSIT-2005 (mackonstan, 14:07:58)
   1. https://wiki.fd.io/view/Fd.io_Webinar_Topics (vrpolak, 14:09:22)
   2. Maciek - summary of where we are with CSIT-2005 benchmarks: (mackonstan, 14:11:07)
   3. Summary: (mackonstan, 14:14:16)
   4. Tibor to run 2001.0-4 set of tests (vpp v20.01.0 tested in CSIT-2005-4): (mackonstan, 14:16:08)
   5. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/27396/7#message-460ca8013124dfd04431a3f61732d208fa479128 <-- Source for the "clx testbed faster with hsw variant" claim. (vrpolak, 14:22:43)
   
   
7. Releases CSIT-2001, CSIT-1908.2 (mackonstan, 14:23:54)
   1. Once the definition of "CSIT environment" is complete, the release schedule should include appropriate freeze dates on env changes so previous release testing can begin early in the release cycle. (dwallacelf, 14:23:58)
   2. no updates (mackonstan, 14:24:04)
   
   
8. Physical Infrastructure (mackonstan, 14:24:39)
   1. Arm build servers - Juraj, Peter working directly with Vexxhost - latest status in Vexxhost ticket (2 servers still dead). Separate tickets for each. Need to coordinate with on-site presence in DC. (mackonstan, 14:29:02)
   2. ACTION: Juraj, Peter, Maciek - propose a consolidated way-forward proposal to address all Arm servers down tickets (3 servers in total, 2 build, 1 thunderX). (mackonstan, 14:30:42)
   
   
9. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 14:31:25)
   1. Dave running ping monitor scripts and updating Vexxhost ticket daily. Will send out instructions for running scripts while I'm on PTO. (dwallacelf, 14:32:42)
   2. Juraj - question of about adding new jobs, want to add Centos job, question to DaveW (mackonstan, 14:33:39)
   3. Juraj - all details in email from xxx, Juraj to confirm (mackonstan, 14:34:57)
   
   
10. Environment, Framework (mackonstan, 14:35:17)
    
11. Performance Tests (mackonstan, 14:35:27)
    1. Vratko - tests using DPDK plugin are failing, per VPP build all tests using DPDK plugin are either failing or passing (mackonstan, 14:37:37)
    2. Peter - saw some discussion on this topic, will investigate it (mackonstan, 14:38:05)
    3. re above `xxx` note, it is `Jieqiang wang` (mackonstan, 14:38:51)
    4. Maciek, Jan, Maros - work continues with NAT44-EI and -ED, using TRex ASTF and TRex STL with symmetric burst profiles (mackonstan, 14:40:07)

Action items

1. Juraj, Peter, Maciek - propose a consolidated way-forward proposal to address all Arm servers down tickets (3 servers in total, 2 build, 1 thunderX).

People present (lines said)

1. mackonstan (42)
2. collab-meetbot (4)
3. dwallacelf (3)
4. vrpolak (3)
5. jgelety (1)
6. jlinkes (1)