#fdio-meeting: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

Meeting summary

1. 1. Tibor Frank (tifrank, 14:04:06)
   2. Fan Zhang (fan_zhang, 14:06:46)
   3. mackonstan (mackonstan, 14:07:35)
   
   
2. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 14:08:21)
   
3. Inputs from projects - VPP (mackonstan, 14:08:30)
   
4. Inputs from projects - TSC (mackonstan, 14:08:52)
   
5. New or being refactored tests (mackonstan, 14:09:04)
   1. Tibor, both set of tests added to trending and report, gtpu and ipsec policy tests (mackonstan, 14:10:14)
   2. Fan, Yulong sent an email highlighting an issue with gtpuhw and gtpusw tests performance. Maciek, Peter, to following on the reported 3n-icx TRex issue for 25GbE gtpu tests. (mackonstan, 14:13:43)
   
   
6. Scale tests revisited (mackonstan, 14:14:21)
   1. Vratko, 1st version of code working okay, but it's introducing some new issues: PAPI related failures, ipsec keyword issue (non-blocking, affecting only ipsec tests). (mackonstan, 14:17:40)
   
   
7. VPP and CSIT hot items (mackonstan, 14:18:05)
   1. Maciek, re Spectre-BHB security vulnerability, the PR we were tracking is not merged, may be as well de facto abandoned, albeit it's still listed as active (mackonstan, 14:21:23)
   2. Peter, CSIT should not be integrated potential abandoned patch of spectre-meltdown-checker (mackonstan, 14:22:31)
   3. Fan, will check internally if any guidance from the team how to proceed here (mackonstan, 14:22:51)
   
   
8. Previous Release - CSIT-2206 (mackonstan, 14:23:47)
   1. Tibor, small addition to report: added graphs for 2n-tx2 container tests, as data available (mackonstan, 14:24:23)
   
   
9. Next Release - CSIT-2210 (mackonstan, 14:24:50)
   1. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2210_plan (mackonstan, 14:25:27)
   2. Peter, Ubuntu 22.04 integration is in progress (mackonstan, 14:26:36)
   3. Peter, will be starting with performance testbeds next week (mackonstan, 14:26:51)
   4. Fan, known incompatibility with ubuntu 22.04 and vfio-pci binding to intel qat, impacts only 3n-snr testbed (mackonstan, 14:29:48)
   5. 36785: dpdk: bump to 22.07 | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/36785 (mackonstan, 14:30:56)
   6. Peter, CSIT compatibility matrix will follow rls notes of dpdk v22.07 (mackonstan, 14:36:54)
   7. https://github.com/FDio/csit/blob/master/fdio.infra.ansible/roles/intel/defaults/main.yaml (mackonstan, 14:36:58)
   8. https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_07.html#tested-platforms (mackonstan, 14:38:00)
   9. phasing of env upgrade in perf testbeds, ubuntu 22.04 first, dpdk next, have trending data available in-between (mackonstan, 14:39:21)
   
   
10. Physical Infrastructure (mackonstan, 14:39:37)
    1. SNR testbed is still waiting for SFP28 25GbE pluggables (mackonstan, 14:40:28)
    
    
11. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 14:40:50)
    1. Peter, working on upgrading Nomad cluster to ubuntu v22.04, incl. ip address renumbering and dns renaming (mackonstan, 14:41:40)
    2. Peter, 23 nodes in the cluster, some server being obsoloeted, so lots of work, almost done, Dave and Juraj involved (mackonstan, 14:43:15)
    
    
12. Environment, Framework (mackonstan, 14:44:12)
    1. Vratko, preparing bump of VPP APIs for PAPI, planning this work for next week (mackonstan, 14:44:57)
    
    
13. Trending (mackonstan, 14:45:24)
    1. Viliam, re failures, there are 5 long-term issues (last 5 on the list on wiki) (mackonstan, 14:46:10)
    2. Viliam, re 2nd failure, CSIT-1850, 2n-dnv: sporadic 1518B tput tests failing to establish required sessions, Vratko - not considering it important. (mackonstan, 14:48:26)
    3. Viliam, re 3rd failure, CSIT-1827, 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, Vratko - in some job runs it works fine, in some other it doesn't with all crypto tests failing in the affected run (mackonstan, 14:51:08)

Action items

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3. tifrank (1)
4. fan_zhang (1)
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