#fdio-csit: FD,io-CSIT project meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:03:07 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 15:03:15)
    2. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:03:19)
    3. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 15:03:19)
    4. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 15:03:21)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:04:50)
  3. Physical labs, testbeds (mackonstan, 15:06:22)
    1. no issues (mackonstan, 15:06:25)

  4. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 15:06:46)
    1. Maciek - MLX native code improvements are now merged - we should see this in trending tests (mackonstan, 15:07:29)
    2. DaveW - lb perf job not running correctly in 20.01. VPP issue identified, to be cherrypicked, and then perf tested. (mackonstan, 15:11:37)

  5. Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 15:11:50)
    1. discussion about FD.io dev event collocated with DPDK dev event in Bordeaux France in October (mackonstan, 15:12:55)
    2. re scapy/gpl2 - awaiting status from Ray (mackonstan, 15:13:54)

  6. Inputs from projects: CNCF CNF Testbed (mackonstan, 15:14:24)
    1. Maciek has an action to check status with Michael Pedersen re status (mackonstan, 15:14:48)

  7. Inputs from projects: VSAP (mackonstan, 15:16:01)
    1. request for adding tests for VSAP - email from Yulong (mackonstan, 15:17:18)
    2. VSAP code in repo (mackonstan, 15:18:09)
    3. https://git.fd.io/vsap/tree/ (mackonstan, 15:18:28)
    4. VSAP mailer missing, project meetings missing (mackonstan, 15:19:20)

  8. Releases (mackonstan, 15:19:36)
  9. Releases CSIT-2001 (mackonstan, 15:20:02)
    1. Jan - 2n-skx testing: 9/10 repeatibility tests are done, 1/10 in progress ETA shortly/today; nfv-density 1/10 started; full-tests to be scheduled. (mackonstan, 15:22:35)
    2. Jan - 3n-skx testing: 5/10 repeatibility tests are done; full-tests to be scheduled. (mackonstan, 15:23:30)
    3. Analysing results - Tibor - all available data is in draft report in master (mackonstan, 15:24:04)
    4. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/ (mackonstan, 15:24:21)
    5. quite a lot of performance changes vs. previous release (mackonstan, 15:30:07)
    6. avf ip4base regressions per known issue with Xeons/FVL NICs (mackonstan, 15:30:47)
    7. nat44 regression (mackonstan, 15:30:57)
    8. and generic issue with NDR rates being bad, due to Xeon Skx/FVL NICs environment that's under investigation Intel\ (mackonstan, 15:32:02)
    9. ipsec numbers lower - need to double-click (mackonstan, 15:33:37)
    10. hoststack tests - DaveW: Jan reporting latest test code failing, DaveW couldn't find the root cause as locally perf tests works, related to interface link initialization, 3n-hsw xl710 dpdk driver. Jan+DaveW collaborating to fix this. (mackonstan, 15:36:52)
    11. targeting maintenance report release tomorrow - with skx results. (mackonstan, 15:38:38)
    12. next week maintenance with full set of tests on skx, fixed hoststack, fixed lb (mackonstan, 15:38:52)

  10. Releases - CSIT-2005 (mackonstan, 15:39:23)
    1. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2005_plan (mackonstan, 15:39:34)
    2. CSIT in AWS and Azure code is pushed in (mackonstan, 15:40:02)

  11. Operations (mackonstan, 15:40:28)
    1. DaveW - after naginator removal, things work - no complaints, no increase of rechecks noticed (mackonstan, 15:42:29)
    2. Vratko - vpp-csit-device tests - re-enable voting - gated upgrade to api-crc check process required (mackonstan, 15:43:18)
    3. Vratko will provide a link to the change of api-crc process (mackonstan, 15:44:32)
    4. Centos CI - not running in vpp-device - stale now (mackonstan, 15:44:42)
    5. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/22354 <-- Plan for more advanced API change process. A prerequisite for vpp-csit devicetest voting. (vrpolak, 15:45:15)
    6. CSIT committers - candidates: Juraj, Yulong. Maciek to check gerrit/git stats and start voting email on csit-dev list (mackonstan, 15:47:37)

  12. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 15:47:53)
    1. Peter - vhost vm tests failing - after upgrade of default dpdk 20.02, mergeable buffer, being fixed (mackonstan, 15:49:10)
    2. - avf - interface init issues - 3 separate intermittent issues. Only affecting skx, no clx. (mackonstan, 15:51:11)
    3. Peter - rdma tests failing - due to typo in qsz change (mackonstan, 15:51:41)
    4. Vratko - identify two anomalies: 1. ipsec hw - after fix difference in performance in 100s% for some tests, culprit patch identified; 2. ipsec sw - 10-12% regression for two out of four algos, , culprit patch identified (mackonstan, 15:53:54)

  13. Developments (mackonstan, 15:56:49)
    1. Balaji - py utility generating gcov data - easy to parse output. Will announce to vpp-dev, csit-dev. (mackonstan, 15:58:45)


Meeting ended at 15:59:19 UTC (full logs).

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