#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT project meeting

Meeting started by mackonstan at 13:57:31 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 13:57:41)

  2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:03:46)
    1. Peter Mikus (pmikus, 14:03:51)
    2. Jan Gelety (jgelety, 14:03:53)
    3. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 14:03:57)

  3. Physical labs, testbeds (mackonstan, 14:04:04)
    1. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 14:05:25)
    2. SSDs keep dying: (mackonstan, 14:05:44)
    3. Peter - going forward proposing to put a remedy in place: (mackonstan, 14:07:03)
    4. Peter - to date 18 SSD disks failed (mackonstan, 14:07:26)
    5. Vexxhost tickets open, but no spares. RMA process unclear, so not shipped. 10 new spare drives still didn't reach the site. (mackonstan, 14:09:17)
    6. Maciek, Peter - Review the SSD drive situation on the next TSC call, propose as a backup plan replacing SSDs with spinning HDDs next time particular SSD fails. (mackonstan, 14:12:56)
    7. right now following testbed types are out of service: 1x 2n-skx, 1x 3n-skx, 2x 2n-cls (mackonstan, 14:14:56)
    8. Peter - SSD RCA - will provide detailed info into existing email thread with ray.kinsella@intel (mackonstan, 14:16:42)

  4. Inputs from projects (mackonstan, 14:16:55)
    1. VPP f0 milestone today (mackonstan, 14:17:07)
    2. VSAP - Dave - gigantic patch (3k LoCs, many tests, overlap with infra) pushed into CSIT repo, asked to split into separate patches to make it reviewable and coordinate from there via gerrit, email etc. (mackonstan, 14:19:36)

  5. Releases - CSIT-2001 (mackonstan, 14:20:13)
    1. 2n-skx, 3n-skx diffs RCAs - Vratko - out of 5, 3 identified, 2 to be identified. One bisecting job is killing SSDs and testbeds. (mackonstan, 14:21:19)
    2. voting for shipping skx RCA content, announce email before next VPP community call on 12-May, and presenting it on that call given allocation of 15min slot (mackonstan, 14:25:31)
    3. 11 x +1 - everyone on the call here - voted for it (mackonstan, 14:25:52)

  6. Releases - CSIT-1908.2 (mackonstan, 14:27:47)
    1. report status - Tibor - report is prepared in the local dev sandbox, will push to csit rls1908.2 branch, missing rls notes so they need to be completed (mackonstan, 14:30:47)

  7. Release - CSIT-2005 (mackonstan, 14:31:13)
    1. wiki page is still to be updated - Maciek (mackonstan, 14:32:32)
    2. Dave - will add directly into wiki (mackonstan, 14:32:42)
    3. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2005_plan (mackonstan, 14:34:17)

  8. Operations (mackonstan, 14:34:45)
    1. Dave - Nomad update: Vanessa shared Nomad Jenkins Plugin, DAW to investigate converting to JJB YAML config (dwallacelf, 14:41:30)
    2. Nomad servers now have uniform admin accounts (dwallacelf, 14:42:23)
    3. Nomad Dockerfiles have been imported into ci-management repo (dwallacelf, 14:43:18)
    4. Nomad Dockerhub now has an account fdiotools which will be used to publish docker images (dwallacelf, 14:44:20)
    5. Nomad servers currently using random bare-metal OS's (ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04, etc). Plan moving forward is to use Ansible to manage uniform OS installations (dwallacelf, 14:46:50)
    6. Vanessa testing changes to using lf global macros on build images on Sandbox and opening JIRA tickets for issues encounter (dwallacelf, 14:50:35)
    7. Maciek - follow up with TWS meeting to discuss above: Dave, Peter, Maros, Maciek, Vratko. (mackonstan, 14:53:21)
    8. Maciek - target Thu or Fri next week. (mackonstan, 14:53:41)

  9. VPP code performance (mackonstan, 14:54:03)
    1. vpp bihash patches impact (mackonstan, 14:54:55)
    2. Vratko - ip6 is back (mackonstan, 14:55:01)
    3. Vratko - ipsec - fixes on csit side, failures caused by changes in vpp, but required changes on csit to do the right thing, some high scale tests are still failiing. (mackonstan, 14:56:15)
    4. Vratko - vpp changed the default compiler from gcc to clang - introduced throughput regression on hsw (mackonstan, 14:57:15)

  10. Developments (mackonstan, 14:59:16)
    1. Scapy licensing - Vratko - step1 merged (mackonstan, 14:59:45)
    2. Vratko - step2 - contributors' statements (mackonstan, 15:00:20)
    3. emails need to be sent - execution ownership to be reviewed on the next TSC call - ray.kinsella and TSC lead / Ed Warnicke are in the driving seat. (mackonstan, 15:01:02)


Meeting ended at 15:01:46 UTC (full logs).

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