#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

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

Meeting summary

    1. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 14:03:28)
    2. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:03:30)
    3. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 14:03:38)
    4. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 14:03:38)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:04:17)
  3. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 14:04:25)
    1. Andrew, VPP v21.01 rls schedule published (mackonstan, 14:05:53)
    2. https://wiki.fd.io/view/Projects/vpp/Release_Plans/Release_Plan_21.01 (mackonstan, 14:05:56)
    3. Vratko, it makes sense to keep CSIT-2101 schedule with VPP v21.01 (mackonstan, 14:14:22)
    4. Vratko, it will give CSIT time to re-test v2009 in the updated CSIT environment (mackonstan, 14:14:44)
    5. Andrew, Maciek, per discussion on the VPP call yesterday, CSIT env will be moving from 2MB to 1GB hugepages to accommodate VPP physical memoryt alloc improvements done by Damjan (mackonstan, 14:16:33)
    6. Dave, daily auto-gen VPP rls notes (mackonstan, 14:16:45)
    7. https://github.com/vpp-dev/vpp-release-notes/blob/master/RELEASE.md (mackonstan, 14:16:53)
    8. https://github.com/vpp-dev/vpp-release-notes (mackonstan, 14:17:08)

  4. Inputs from projects - VSAP (mackonstan, 14:17:24)
    1. no inputs (mackonstan, 14:17:28)

  5. Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 14:17:36)
    1. Vratko, main thing for CSIT is status of GPLv2/Scapy (mackonstan, 14:17:58)
    2. Awaiting two contributors to give their permission (mackonstan, 14:18:24)

  6. Releases - CSIT-2009 (mackonstan, 14:19:52)
    1. https://git.fd.io/csit/commit/?id=4bafd0aa54fa78c4c3a6a32281cfa551e61bcafc <-- Contribution from Lucian (Enea) to be replaced by a GPL-able contribution. (vrpolak, 14:20:30)
    2. Tibor, most testbeds done, 3n-skx coverage tests are behind (mackonstan, 14:21:05)
    3. Tibor, CSIT-2009 report is camera ready, few formatting nits will be generatedshortly (mackonstan, 14:25:48)
    4. https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls2009/report/index.html (mackonstan, 14:26:00)
    5. Tibor, target is to add following test data next week: nat44ed CPS UDP and TCP tests, more of 3n-skx coverage tests (mackonstan, 14:27:08)
    6. Vratko, nat44ed pps/throughput tests most likely in 2 weeks time (mackonstan, 14:27:27)
    7. Tibor, Andrew, Maciek: highlight the most important things, incl. multi-core scaling with 100GE mlx NICs (mackonstan, 14:29:37)
    8. Tibor also RCA will be coming in the next weeks (mackonstan, 14:30:13)
    9. Tibor also RCA will be coming in the next weeks (mackonstan, 14:31:27)
    10. Tibor also RCA for regressions/progressions of v20.09 vw. v20.05 will be coming in the next weeks (mackonstan, 14:31:51)

  7. Physical Infrastructure (mackonstan, 14:32:05)
    1. Tibor, 2n-dnv, 3n-dnv dpdk tests failing, will be looked at by Yulong/Intel (mackonstan, 14:33:05)
    2. Juraj, thunderx2 new vpp_device setup is almost done (mackonstan, 14:33:51)
    3. Keesang, all bios and ucode are aligned on both servers (mackonstan, 14:36:09)

  8. AMD EPYC 7532 zen2 server settings in FD.io CSIT labs (mackonstan, 14:36:13)
    1. amd 2n-zn2 BIOS settings (mackonstan, 14:36:13)
    2. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=csit.git;f=docs/lab/testbeds_sm_zn2_hw_bios_cfg.md;hb=refs/changes/33/29033/2#l483 (mackonstan, 14:36:13)
    3. zen2 servers firmware inventory (mackonstan, 14:36:13)
    4. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=csit.git;f=docs/lab/testbeds_sm_zn2_hw_bios_cfg.md;hb=refs/changes/33/29033/2#l627 (mackonstan, 14:36:13)
    5. amd zen2 GRUB cmd line: (mackonstan, 14:36:13)
    6. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="isolcpus=0-15,16-31,32-47,48-63 rcu_nocbs=0-15,16-31,32-47,48-63 transparent_hugepages=never iommu=pt amd_iommu=on nohz=off numa_balancing=disable nmi_watchdog=0 audit=0 nosoftlockup processor.max_cstate=0" (mackonstan, 14:36:13)
    7. Correct link: (mackonstan, 14:38:42)
    8. https://git.fd.io/csit/tree/docs/lab/testbeds_sm_zn2_hw_bios_cfg.md#n628 (mackonstan, 14:38:47)
    9. https://git.fd.io/csit/tree/docs/lab/testbeds_sm_zn2_hw_bios_cfg.md#n484 (mackonstan, 14:38:59)
    10. Peter next steps: finish applying GRUB cmd line (mackonstan, 14:39:52)
    11. Peter, Maciek next is to run baseline tests l2, ip4, ip6 (mackonstan, 14:40:43)
    12. Peter, job spec is already there, c&p from 2n-clx (mackonstan, 14:42:01)
    13. Keesang, prefers to execute the full set of iterative tests ASAP (mackonstan, 14:43:13)
    14. Keesang, to make a recommendation about reading core frequency during tests, as it is not set to baseline (mackonstan, 14:47:39)
    15. Maciek, proposal for AMD onboarding: run a set of baseline and scale tests for NIC2NIC tests, MRR, NDRPDR - l2patch, l2xc, l2bd, ip4, ip6; 2 runs; review the results; if okay then schedule few iterative runs, if consistent, schedule csit2-2009 run and publish as initial/to-be-reviewed set of results. Must be accompanied by clearly document clock frequencies during the tests. (mackonstan, 14:53:23)

  9. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 14:53:43)
    1. Dave, ci-mgmt patches: cleaning docker scripts, new CSIT docker image patch, … (mackonstan, 14:55:51)

  10. Environment, Framework (mackonstan, 14:56:02)
    1. MAciek, Peter, plan for Hugepages change 2MB to 1GB (mackonstan, 14:56:25)

  11. Performance Tests (mackonstan, 14:56:59)
    1. Peter, new VPP GSO tests, currently coding iPerf3 … already getting early performance results with and without GSO, continue to tune the tests for affinity/resource allocation, and iPerf3 input params. (mackonstan, 15:01:48)
    2. Vratko, nat44ed astf update, hit another 2 big issues with PPS / throughput: i) negative loss due to TRex server instances interactions, ii) issue with splitting bi-dir to uni-dir value interpretation, optimistic this is it (mackonstan, 15:05:04)
    3. Vratko, CPS patch is (almost) ready for review, early comments welcome (mackonstan, 15:05:32)


Meeting ended at 15:06:07 UTC (full logs).

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