#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:03:27 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:03:42)
    2. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 14:03:58)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:05:00)
  3. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 14:05:19)
    1. Andrew, pushing v20.09, only open patch is rls notes :) (mackonstan, 14:05:55)
    2. Andrew, DPDK meson-based build patches reverted after discussion (mackonstan, 14:08:48)
    3. Jan, it was affecting csit ipsec tests (mackonstan, 14:08:58)
    4. Andres, v20.09 artefacts should be out today, should be good for csit testing start tomorrow EU time (mackonstan, 14:10:04)
    5. Damjan voted a new VP PTL (mackonstan, 14:11:16)
    6. Inputs from projects - VSAP (mackonstan, 14:11:25)
    7. #info Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 14:11:34)

  4. Inputs from projects - CNCF (mackonstan, 14:12:24)
    1. Questions coming back about running VPP in unprivileged containers (mackonstan, 14:14:18)
    2. Andrew, need to investigate first (mackonstan, 14:14:31)
    3. Maciek, let's form a small workgroup to investigate; Dave wants to be included (mackonstan, 14:16:11)
    4. Peter, there are number of levels of integration to be investigated, not only in standalone unprivileged container, but also container distribution, impact of orchestration (e.g. Nomad) (mackonstan, 14:17:26)

  5. Releases CSIT-2009 (mackonstan, 14:19:09)
    1. Tibor, RC2 dry runs completed, sample results from 5 runs in draft report here (mackonstan, 14:24:05)
    2. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/_static/vpp/performance-changes-2n-clx-xxv710-2t1c-pdr.txt (mackonstan, 14:24:14)
    3. Maciek, ip6 rnd tests are missing (unfinished). (mackonstan, 14:25:58)
    4. RC2 tests results look good, can move ahead with rls and for-report testing (mackonstan, 14:28:06)
    5. Jan, nat44det and nat44ed TRex STL tests, fixing bugs/issues with ramp-up phase and nat44 session established check, targeting merge today EU time … (mackonstan, 14:29:56)
    6. Vratko, nat44ed cps tests with TRex ASTF tests, require one more rebase (mackonstan, 14:30:28)
    7. Vratko, cps tests should be ready for final review after dry runs tomorrow (mackonstan, 14:31:00)
    8. Vratko, pps tests, doing good progress but still require more time to complete (mackonstan, 14:31:26)
    9. Tibor, okay to start testing rls2009 w/o any nat tests or with any that are finished by tomorrow, and add remaining nat tests once ready and dry runs complete (mackonstan, 14:34:12)
    10. Tibor, this patch needs to be merged before rls2009 testing commences (mackonstan, 14:36:54)
    11. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/29036 (mackonstan, 14:36:56)
    12. Tibor, report, one or two patches in-review for environment, then need to add methodology, rls notes and RCA (mackonstan, 14:38:46)
    13. Maciek, doing methodology (mackonstan, 14:38:54)
    14. Everyone, rls notes (mackonstan, 14:39:04)
    15. Vratko, will lead RCA (mackonstan, 14:39:27)
    16. Keesang, would like to see AMD perf test data to be included in CSIT-2009 (mackonstan, 14:40:59)
    17. Maciek, DNV testbed are out of production till further notice, see ticket for NIC replacements (mackonstan, 14:41:57)
    18. Juraj, Arm Tishans working and included (mackonstan, 14:42:05)

  6. Physical Infrastructure (mackonstan, 14:45:55)
    1. Juraj, ThunderX2 phy install completed, onboarding and testing continues (mackonstan, 14:46:55)
    2. Keesang, AMD, want to verify the outputs of spectre-meltdown.sh script, and will go about updating cpu ucode accordingly. (mackonstan, 14:49:08)
    3. Keesang, AMD, BIOS versions should be aligned too. (mackonstan, 14:52:09)
    4. Peter, once bios and ucode points addressed, can go ahead with AMD pre-production testing (mackonstan, 14:56:12)
    5. Maciek, FD.io lab extension in 2021, ballpark numbers provided (mackonstan, 14:58:32)
    6. Maciek, looking for volunteers to help out to assess the impact of putting new server build(s) into a new DC location, per Trishan question (mackonstan, 14:59:44)
    7. Maciek, Dave, put together a high-level assessment about adding a new DC location, run it by key folks involved in VPP and CSIT jobs i.e. Andrew, Peter (mackonstan, 15:00:47)

  7. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 15:01:17)
    1. Dave, finishing the main automation patch ge28022, should be merging and going production next week (mackonstan, 15:01:47)
    2. Juraj, would be great to add Arm builds for Centos and Ubuntu (mackonstan, 15:06:07)
    3. Dave, will take care of it (mackonstan, 15:07:29)


Meeting ended at 15:07:32 UTC (full logs).

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