#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting started by pmikus at 14:01:43 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. Vratko Polak. (vrpolak, 14:01:56)

  1. Agenda bashing (pmikus, 14:02:04)
  2. Inputs from projects (pmikus, 14:03:18)
    1. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:03:29)
    2. vpp: nothing new, rc1 in 2weeks. (pmikus, 14:03:40)
    3. vsap: patches in flight in review (pmikus, 14:04:07)
    4. tsc: no updates (pmikus, 14:04:36)

  3. Releases (pmikus, 14:04:58)
    1. csit-2106 no added changes. (pmikus, 14:05:50)
    2. csit-2101 no added changes (pmikus, 14:06:04)
    3. VSAP - agreed to test only one version of NGINX (pmikus, 14:07:50)
    4. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 14:08:49)
    5. Juraj Linkeš (jlinkes, 14:10:29)

  4. Physical Infrastructure (pmikus, 14:10:49)
    1. FD.io DC move in Apr 2021 - done as of today. (pmikus, 14:12:11)
    2. FD.io lab extension in 2021  - in progress (pmikus, 14:12:45)

  5. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (pmikus, 14:13:05)
    1. Few outages due to simplification of NW layout by vexx-hosts (removing extensions). Still few issues with traffic. (pmikus, 14:14:19)
    2. Move ingress into same physical site is a next step to resolve the issue. (pmikus, 14:15:29)
    3. Naginator still in place until issue fully fixed (pmikus, 14:17:13)
    4. Trending jobs impacted by NW outages and DC move (pmikus, 14:20:39)
    5. VPP device troubleshooting of Intel NIC race condition - NIC moved to X86 (pmikus, 14:21:00)
    6. JurajL and PeterM to follow up (pmikus, 14:21:10)
    7. Failure cause identification with build-failure-analyzer Jenkins plugin - no updates (pmikus, 14:21:31)
    8. Moving away from Nexus. - readthedocs.io, s3 not fully operational. (pmikus, 14:22:29)

  6. Environment, Framework (pmikus, 14:23:19)
    1. 15 out of 21 servers are migrated to ubuntu 20.04, vpp-device postponed till NIC issue solved. (pmikus, 14:24:58)
    2. Optimization of PAPI speed for scale tests - some discussions, most probably not in 2106 (pmikus, 14:30:32)
    3. VPP API changes' tracking - 1 change, vpp has removed workaround. Vratko fixed on CSIT side. (pmikus, 14:31:06)

  7. Performance Tests (pmikus, 14:31:21)
  8. Trending outstanding issues: NAT issue (KlementS), Geneve tests fixed, some random crashes still to do. IPsec async scheduler are crashing, IPsec drop of performance, Stats crashing VPP - Ole working on fix (pmikus, 14:33:49)
    1. Reducing IPsec tests (reconf, qat....) (pmikus, 14:34:38)
    2. IPsec async patch - patches to fix thread distribution. (pmikus, 14:36:48)
    3. https://github.com/FDio/csit/tree/master/tests/vpp/perf/crypto <-- IPsec suites available for running, but possibly not being run. (vrpolak, 14:38:55)

  9. Functional Tests (pmikus, 14:39:02)
    1. https://github.com/FDio/csit/tree/master/docs/job_specs <-- Document structure listing which tests are being run for trending and/or report. (vrpolak, 14:40:35)
    2. Flow offload patch, Intel requires to test both PF and VF which cannot be done in 1n-vpp-device. Will continue search for a solution. (pmikus, 14:44:45)


Meeting ended at 14:54:11 UTC (full logs).

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