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#fdio-csit: FD,io-CSIT project meeting
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Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:03:07 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-csit/2020/fdio-csit.2020-03-18-15.03.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Vratko Polak.  (vrpolak, 15:03:15)
* Dave Wallace  (dwallacelf, 15:03:19)
* Tibor Frank  (tifrank, 15:03:19)
* Jan Gelety  (jgelety, 15:03:21)
* Agenda bashing  (mackonstan, 15:04:50)

* Physical labs, testbeds  (mackonstan, 15:06:22)
  * no issues  (mackonstan, 15:06:25)

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

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

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

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

* Releases  (mackonstan, 15:19:36)

* Releases CSIT-2001  (mackonstan, 15:20:02)
  * 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)
  * Jan - 3n-skx testing: 5/10 repeatibility tests are done; full-tests
    to be scheduled.  (mackonstan, 15:23:30)
  * Analysing results - Tibor - all available data is in draft report in
    master  (mackonstan, 15:24:04)
  * LINK: https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/  (mackonstan, 15:24:21)
  * quite a lot of performance changes vs. previous release
    (mackonstan, 15:30:07)
  * avf ip4base regressions per known issue with Xeons/FVL NICs
    (mackonstan, 15:30:47)
  * nat44 regression  (mackonstan, 15:30:57)
  * and generic issue with NDR rates being bad, due to Xeon Skx/FVL NICs
    environment that's under investigation Intel\  (mackonstan,
    15:32:02)
  * ipsec numbers lower - need to double-click  (mackonstan, 15:33:37)
  * 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)
  * targeting maintenance report release tomorrow - with skx results.
    (mackonstan, 15:38:38)
  * next week maintenance with full set of tests on skx, fixed
    hoststack, fixed lb  (mackonstan, 15:38:52)

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

* Operations  (mackonstan, 15:40:28)
  * DaveW - after naginator removal, things work - no complaints, no
    increase of rechecks noticed  (mackonstan, 15:42:29)
  * Vratko - vpp-csit-device tests - re-enable voting - gated upgrade to
    api-crc check process required  (mackonstan, 15:43:18)
  * Vratko will provide a link to the change of api-crc process
    (mackonstan, 15:44:32)
  * Centos CI - not running in vpp-device - stale now  (mackonstan,
    15:44:42)
  * LINK: 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)
  * CSIT committers - candidates: Juraj, Yulong. Maciek to check
    gerrit/git stats and start voting email on csit-dev list
    (mackonstan, 15:47:37)

* VPP code performance  (mackonstan, 15:47:53)
  * Peter - vhost vm tests failing - after upgrade of default dpdk
    20.02, mergeable buffer, being fixed  (mackonstan, 15:49:10)
  * - avf - interface init issues - 3 separate intermittent issues. Only
    affecting skx, no clx.  (mackonstan, 15:51:11)
  * Peter - rdma tests failing - due to typo in qsz change  (mackonstan,
    15:51:41)
  * 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)

* Developments  (mackonstan, 15:56:49)
  * 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.



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