#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:00:48 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:00:53)
    1. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:00:58)
    2. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:03:08)

  2. Physical labs, testbeds (mackonstan, 15:04:28)
    1. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 15:04:33)
    2. no updates, all green. (mackonstan, 15:04:34)

  3. Input from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 15:04:53)
    1. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:05:50)
    2. re CSIT-2001 - 2n-skx, 3n-skx - issue with NDR throughput still persists, feedback from VPP call is to publish PDR and MRR numbers, and update rls notes about poor NDR numbers until fixed. (mackonstan, 15:08:33)
    3. agreement in VPP call to aim for end of March for v19.08.2 maintenance release. (mackonstan, 15:09:17)

  4. Input from projects - TSc (mackonstan, 15:09:36)
    1. Scapy/GPL issue is still in resolution phase - RayK is coordinating agreement from copyright owners/file authors (mackonstan, 15:10:37)

  5. CNCF CNF Testbed (mackonstan, 15:10:54)
    1. no update (mackonstan, 15:10:57)
    2. Maciek - will ask Michael Pederson from Intel to join one of the future CSIT calls to provide update. (mackonstan, 15:11:35)

  6. Releases - CSIT-2001 (mackonstan, 15:11:52)
    1. Testing - Jan - apart from Skx - everything is finished. (mackonstan, 15:12:38)
    2. Report - Tibor - apart from Skx - everything has been added to report. (mackonstan, 15:13:07)
    3. Report - Dave - there is one patch outstanding for hoststack, that needs to be added to report. (mackonstan, 15:13:28)

  7. Releases - CSIT-2001 - 2n-skx, 3n-skx (mackonstan, 15:14:31)
    1. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/25724 (dwallacelf, 15:14:36)
    2. Skx testing - Jan - performance jobs running on 2n-skx and about to start running on 3n-skx. Will have >5 runs per testbed type before next week Wednesday. (mackonstan, 15:16:38)
    3. Skx report - Tibor - exclusion of NDR graphs and analysis already prepared, so will be included in next week maintenance report. As the test data arrives it will be included in draft version at master link. (mackonstan, 15:18:38)
    4. Skx report - Maciek - will update vpp and dpdk rls notes regarding the Skx environment/ucode issues (10% PDR regression, poor NDR throughput). (mackonstan, 15:19:32)

  8. Releases - CSIT-1908 maintenance (mackonstan, 15:19:55)
    1. vpp device tests running. (mackonstan, 15:20:34)
    2. vpp performance tests - requires environment updates - Peter - looking to have it done this week unless interruption, Jan willing to help. (mackonstan, 15:21:44)
    3. weekly test job - Jan - working on spec listing all required tests (mackonstan, 15:22:32)

  9. Skx NDR t/shooting (mackonstan, 15:22:42)
    1. Intel has access to FD.io labs and executing additional telemetry to track down the NDR issue on 2n-skx tb23 (mackonstan, 15:23:37)

  10. Releases - CSIT-2005 (mackonstan, 15:25:04)
    1. dates aligned with VPP (mackonstan, 15:25:14)
    2. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2005_plan (mackonstan, 15:25:44)
    3. We should our best to do all environment updates early in the cycle (mackonstan, 15:28:29)
    4. More vulnerabilities discovered impacting processor ucode, we need to track ucode developments with respective vendors. (mackonstan, 15:31:02)
    5. Add standing agenda topic for CSIT call to check re changes in spectre-meltdown-checker.sh and processor ucode updates. (mackonstan, 15:32:06)
    6. Govind - Taishan upgrade to -72 kernel with new ucode load failed, need to check logs, reverted to -54 (mackonstan, 15:33:40)

  11. Operations (mackonstan, 15:33:54)
    1. job retries - stopped now, ci-mgmt patch from Ed/Dave merged (mackonstan, 15:35:59)

  12. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 15:36:40)
    1. vhost tests failing, vpp-in-vm not starting, Peter to check (mackonstan, 15:41:09)
    2. ipsec tnlhw failing, Jan + Neale tracked down the offending patch (mackonstan, 15:41:51)
    3. Vratko - no real regression noticed in trending (mackonstan, 15:42:05)


Meeting ended at 15:42:09 UTC (full logs).

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