#fdio-csit: Fd.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting summary

1. 1. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:01:35)
   2. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:01:37)
   3. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 15:01:43)
   4. mackonstan (mackonstan, 15:01:46)
   5. Juraj Linkeš (jlinkes, 15:02:18)
   
   
2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:03:29)
   
3. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 15:03:42)
   
4. Inputs from projects - VSAP (mackonstan, 15:04:24)
   
5. Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 15:04:58)
   1. Maciek, updated re lab extension budget, got approved, extension going ahead. (mackonstan, 15:09:34)
   
   
6. Releases CSIT-2101 (mackonstan, 15:09:51)
   1. Some updates in wiki (mackonstan, 15:11:02)
   2. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2101_plan (mackonstan, 15:11:04)
   
   
7. Releases CSIT-2009 (mackonstan, 15:11:19)
   1. Tibor, nat44 results are now included in the latest version of CSIT-2009 report (mackonstan, 15:11:51)
   2. https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls2009/report/vpp_performance_tests/packet_throughput_graphs/nat44.html (mackonstan, 15:12:13)
   3. Vratko, methodology for nat44 has been updated too, and rls notes too (mackonstan, 15:13:04)
   4. https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls2009/report/introduction/methodology_nat44.html (mackonstan, 15:13:14)
   5. Dave, vpp v20.09.1 maintenance planned for mid- February 2021 (mackonstan, 15:15:39)
   
   
8. Physical Infrastructure - Xeon, Atom (mackonstan, 15:16:14)
   1. Maciek, E810 NICs install in 2n-clx delayed due to lack of cables; about to be shipped by Intel (mackonstan, 15:17:05)
   
   
9. #topic Physical Infrastructure - Arm (mackonstan, 15:17:15)
   1. Juraj, vpp device job more unstable than x86 counterpart, one ticket open (mackonstan, 15:18:15)
   2. https://jira.fd.io/browse/VPP-1943 (mackonstan, 15:18:18)
   3. https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578 (mackonstan, 15:19:27)
   4. Peter, similar failure happens with xeon skx, but much less frequently vs arm (mackonstan, 15:24:39)
   5. Juraj, made progress with 2n-tx2 performance testbed, moving now to TRex setup (mackonstan, 15:31:13)
   
   
10. Physical Infrastructure - AMD (mackonstan, 15:31:35)
    1. tests are running, should be able to publish next week (mackonstan, 15:31:55)
    
    
11. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 15:33:12)
    1. Peter, Andrew, following Nexus failures, working on developing storage backup solution based on server HW we have put aside for data backend (mackonstan, 15:34:28)
    2. Peter, after evaluating all requirements settled on using min.io, consul, nomad to set up storage as a service, running (partial) prototype now (mackonstan, 15:37:34)
    3. Peter, suggest we have a TWS call to demo and walk thru the current solution. 6am PST Mon 30-Nov (mackonstan, 15:46:39)
    
    
12. Environment, Framework (mackonstan, 15:47:30)
    1. Jan, identified 12 vpp api that are getting deprecated in vpp v21.01, will work them, list in email (mackonstan, 15:49:05)
    2. https://lists.fd.io/g/csit-dev/message/4217 (mackonstan, 15:49:07)
    3. Andrew, note that min.io is under AGPL license (mackonstan, 15:52:54)
    4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License (mackonstan, 15:52:58)
    
    
13. Performance Tests (mackonstan, 15:55:38)
    1. Vratko, didn't see any big fluctuations in trending, despite bumping TRex rev (mackonstan, 15:56:03)
    2. Vratko, trending failures: 2n-clx t28 cx556a card, 3n-skx t32 x710 card (mackonstan, 15:56:46)
    3. Jan, new tests for Geneve, dry running mrr and ndrpdr tests for up to 64 tunnels, fixed entropy by using different UDP src ports in Geneve header, but with the same udp src port per payload flow (mackonstan, 16:02:23)
    
    
14. Functional Tests (mackonstan, 16:02:59)
    1. Jan, added geneve tests, patchset in review (mackonstan, 16:03:14)
    
    
15. Housekeeping (mackonstan, 16:04:04)
    1. Inactive VPN users (mackonstan, 16:04:11)

Action items

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2. collab-meetbot (4)
3. jgelety (1)
4. tifrank (1)
5. vrpolak (1)
6. jlinkes (1)