#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:00:16 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 14:00:29)
    2. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:01:25)
    3. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 14:03:22)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:03:30)
  3. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 14:03:51)
    1. Dave, vpp v19.08.3 released yesterday. (mackonstan, 14:04:31)
    2. Dave, question is if v19.08.3 should be perf tested in CSIT, similar to what was done for 19.08.2 back in May. (mackonstan, 14:13:53)
    3. Maciek, CSIT project now busy with finish 20.09 code, quite a few CSIT infra and env changes … (mackonstan, 14:14:38)
    4. Dave, Andrew, Maciek, proposal to defer v19.08.3 testing till after 20.09, see if anybody having any issue with that approach (mackonstan, 14:15:22)
    5. Inputs from projects - VSAP (mackonstan, 14:16:03)
    6. quiet (mackonstan, 14:16:26)

  4. Inputs from projects - TSc (mackonstan, 14:16:36)
    1. Vratko, it was a short call, the only topic was CSIT and terminology changes, nothing planned for 2009 (mackonstan, 14:17:17)
    2. Vratko, VPP is already changing api's, but CSIT can continue using old ones (mackonstan, 14:17:58)

  5. Release CSIT-2009 (mackonstan, 14:18:15)
    1. Tibor, replacing old NAT44 deterministic tests (aka CGN) with new ones (mackonstan, 14:19:51)

  6. Physical Infrastructure (mackonstan, 14:20:13)
    1. Peter, Xeon SSDs: 2 Nomad servers affected, drives replaced; 1 SSD RMAed; all SSDs' FWs upgraded by Peter, so not expecting any complaints in regards to SSDs dying due to old FW. (mackonstan, 14:22:27)
    2. Peter, re inventory: no SSDs spares left; 37 HDD spares are there. (mackonstan, 14:24:02)
    3. Peter, re Atom/Denverton, testbeds are still out-of-service, exhibit continuous pkt drops; similar setup in Intel labs doesn't suffer from this issue; all tuning settings are aligned between the setups; awaiting feedback from Intel experts re next steps. (mackonstan, 14:26:12)
    4. Juraj, re 2 faulty Arm servers: 1 Arm server recovered following BMC/IPMI config correction; 1 Arm server not booting due to incomplete RAM stick configuration, need to buy replacement RAM stick. (mackonstan, 14:29:21)
    5. Juraj, re new Arm testbed, 2x ThunderX2, 2x 2RU server, vexxhost confirmed no space in existing racks, need to get another rack, requires PO raised against (mackonstan, 14:37:32)
    6. https://secure.vexxhost.com/billing/viewticket.php?tid=FDU-009676&c=ncHht136 (mackonstan, 14:37:41)
    7. Keesang, sending missing rack mounting kit (mackonstan, 14:40:07)
    8. Keesang, otherwise Vexxhost team is proceeding with the install (mackonstan, 14:41:49)

  7. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 14:43:58)
    1. Peter, observed all Jenkins executors got suspended, gerrit triggers not taken care of. Andrew and Maros confirmed. (mackonstan, 14:45:00)
    2. Vanessa to be pinged. (mackonstan, 14:45:55)
    3. Vanessa on it per Andrew's update (mackonstan, 14:46:14)
    4. Andrew, making vpp-csit-verify-device voting, change uploaded, Vratko reviewed and merged. (mackonstan, 14:47:06)

  8. Environment, Framework (mackonstan, 14:48:31)
    1. Vratko, TRex 3-ple patch squashed into 1 per call last week, merged into master, in oper branch next week, we should see the effects in trending. (mackonstan, 14:51:04)
    2. re VPP API changes' tracking, Maciek, been made aware of this change in stats api (mackonstan, 14:53:25)
    3. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/28017 (mackonstan, 14:53:29)
    4. Andrew, this should be transparent to PAPI, but affects goVPP (mackonstan, 14:53:51)

  9. Performance Tests (mackonstan, 14:54:14)
    1. Trending tests failing, based on csit-report auto email: AVF, RDMA, nat44 (mackonstan, 14:57:35)
    2. Tibor, Peter, reporting some DPDK tests are failing too (mackonstan, 14:57:47)
    3. Vratko, no regressions in baseline tests, some progressions (mackonstan, 14:58:23)
    4. Vratko, natt44ed cps tests, (almost) ready for review, observing some TRex ASTF incosistency of behaviour (mackonstan, 15:00:37)


Meeting ended at 15:01:32 UTC (full logs).

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