#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:05:09 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 14:05:10)
    2. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 14:05:11)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:05:28)
    1. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:05:28)
    2. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 14:05:50)
    3. CSIT lab extension next year 2021, LFN budget planning (mackonstan, 14:05:51)

  3. Inputs from projects (mackonstan, 14:08:09)
  4. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 14:08:18)
    1. Andrew, v20.09 rc1 getting ready, waiting for late coming patches, then pressing the button, ETA 18:00 UTC today. (mackonstan, 14:09:31)
    2. Jan, from CSIT perspective, rls2009 branch to be pulled later today, respective ci-mgmt patches to be merged shortly (mackonstan, 14:11:06)

  5. Inputs from projects - VSAP (mackonstan, 14:11:26)
    1. Ping Yu, several patches in CSIT under review, focusing on VSAP tests (mackonstan, 14:12:33)
    2. here are the patches: (mackonstan, 14:14:12)
    3. https://packagecloud.io/app/fdio/2005/search?q=vsap <-- Still only two (unversioned) packages visible. (vrpolak, 14:16:13)
    4. Ping to upload VSAP packages to packagecloud (mackonstan, 14:19:16)

  6. Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 14:19:43)
  7. Releases CSIT-2009 (mackonstan, 14:19:54)
    1. Jan, should be ready to run v20.09 rc1 tests this weekend (mackonstan, 14:21:30)
    2. Jan, baseline dry runs tomorrow, review results on Friday, then schedule rc1 iterative test set over the weekend (mackonstan, 14:22:06)
    3. Jan, nat44det TRex STL, base tests are all done, adding the verify check that all sessions established, running on 2n-clx testbeds. (mackonstan, 14:24:46)
    4. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/28704 (tifrank, 14:26:10)
    5. nat44det in job-specs (tifrank, 14:26:34)
    6. Vratko, nat44ed TRex ASTF, finishing touches for udp cps, tcp cps, udp "pps/tps" (mackonstan, 14:26:48)
    7. nat44ed stl unidir, status TBC (mackonstan, 14:27:34)
    8. Vratko, TRex STL calibration with 8 workers, all done, works well and consistent results except MLX 2p100GE NIC (mackonstan, 14:28:53)
    9. Vratko, TRex + DPDK + MLX that is showing duration stretching at rates > 45 Mpps (mackonstan, 14:29:59)
    10. Tibor, report prepared, static content TODO list per usual to csit-dev, now it's adding data (mackonstan, 14:31:36)
    11. Tibor, need to add nat44ed astf and stl tests to report, in TODO list. (mackonstan, 14:32:20)

  8. Releases - CSIT-2005 (mackonstan, 14:32:36)
  9. Physical Infrastructure (mackonstan, 14:32:49)
    1. no issues with existing infra for performance testbeds (mackonstan, 14:33:26)
    2. Dave, some open work with build servers (mackonstan, 14:34:01)
    3. Maciek, dnv testbeds down, diagnosed as phy issue, RayK/Yulong to open the ticket with Vexxhost (mackonstan, 14:34:57)
    4. Juraj, new ThunderX2 testbed, working with Vexxhost team to work out the install, issue with out of power sockets in the rack. Rack space is there. (mackonstan, 14:37:43)
    5. https://secure.vexxhost.com/billing/viewticket.php?tid=FDU-009676&c=ncHht136 (mackonstan, 14:38:31)
    6. This calls for a greater transparency regarding rack space and power capacity, let's address this as part of lab extension conversation with LFN and the team (mackonstan, 14:40:29)
    7. Juraj, the 2 new ThunderX2 servers to be used for vpp_device, old ThunderX2 to be considered for 2n performance testbed if there is a spare TG capacity (mackonstan, 14:42:33)
    8. Keesang, the new AMD testbed, Vexxhost complete physical infra now it's about onboarding the servers into CSIT (mackonstan, 14:46:25)

  10. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 14:46:51)
    1. Dave, TWS call last Friday, Dave walked through patch 28022 : Automate generation of docker builder images. (mackonstan, 14:49:03)
    2. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/ci-management/+/28022 (mackonstan, 14:49:12)
    3. vpp-csit-verify-device voting now, seems to be working as no complaints (mackonstan, 14:50:14)

  11. Performance Tests (mackonstan, 14:56:30)
    1. Vratko, no major issues in trending tests (mackonstan, 14:58:14)

  12. Physical lab extension (mackonstan, 14:59:39)
    1. Maciek, run through the initial draft proposal of adding new Xeon Icelake testbeds; Arm and AMD extension are TBC; will send email to drive it to completion (mackonstan, 15:02:30)


Meeting ended at 15:02:52 UTC (full logs).

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