14:03:24 #startmeeting Weekly Open vSwitch for NFV meeting (11th July 2016) 14:03:24 Meeting started Mon Jul 11 14:03:24 2016 UTC. The chair is mdgray_. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 14:03:24 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 14:03:24 The meeting name has been set to 'weekly_open_vswitch_for_nfv_meeting__11th_july_2016_' 14:03:33 #topic Roll Call 14:03:41 #info Mark Gray 14:03:41 #info Chunghan Lee 14:04:09 #agenda https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/ovsnfv-meet 14:04:27 #undo 14:04:27 Removing item from minutes: 14:04:31 #topic Agenda 14:04:32 #info Billy O'Mahony 14:04:35 #link https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/ovsnfv-meet 14:06:08 #topic Fuel Demo 14:07:27 #info Billy presents demo slides 14:07:40 #info outlines goal of brahmaputra release 14:09:15 #info Billy ran tests using two versions of OPNFV. One with the Fuel plugin for OVS/DPDK and one without OVS/DPDK 14:10:03 #info Some benchmarks have been done with OVS in an isolated manner. These tests are more "realistic" as they are run in a real deployment. 14:11:04 #info Demo results show the difference bettwen the two 14:11:41 #info Initial results are good: Throughput x 2 and latency / 3 14:11:47 #undo 14:11:47 Removing item from minutes: 14:11:59 #info Initial results are good: Throughput x 3 and latency / 5 14:12:10 #info Tests are netperf UDP tests 14:13:51 #info OVS/DPDK latency is very smooth but there are latency spikes in longer time intervals 14:14:21 #info Tom Herbert 14:14:44 #info Sorry I am late. Are tests published? 14:14:48 #info In Rel-B test there are about 10-15 tests 14:14:54 #undo 14:14:54 Removing item from minutes: 14:15:16 #info In Rel-B test there are about 10-15 tests in the CI 14:15:25 #info There are about 40 tests in Yardstick 14:15:36 #info Don't know if that will change for Colorado 14:16:36 #info Billy has run all tests but the results are not published yet 14:18:23 #info He will do a more formal analysis this week and aim to present results next week. 14:18:45 #info For Brahmaputra all tests seem to pass 14:19:05 #info For Colorado goal, all tests should pass. 14:19:29 #info Need to enable tests for CI-pipeline. 14:20:49 #info Functest tests seem to pass but need to confirm. This could be a future readout at this forum. 14:20:52 #info x3 wrt what? 14:21:17 x3 the vanilla ovs results 14:21:27 #info Next steps are .. 14:21:30 #undo 14:21:30 Removing item from minutes: 14:21:32 OK 14:21:53 thats with netperf in a openstack environment 14:22:28 #info Yardstick tests uses ubunto cloud image that is modified for yardstick 14:22:58 #info image uploaded to glance 14:23:06 #info heat used to run tests 14:23:13 #info Grafana to display the results. 14:23:33 #info Same methodology should work with Apex 14:23:58 #info Billy showing live output from montreal pod 14:27:02 #info Billy presents possible demo and yardstick next steps 14:27:45 Any further questions on this topic? 14:29:45 #info Chunghan asks if there is any background traffic 14:30:33 #info There isnt, this is sending traffic between VMs on the same host. It is one the Yardstick testcases 14:32:03 #info These tests are UDP tests 14:32:23 #topic Fuel Update 14:33:01 #info Yardstick and Functest tests will be run and the results will be documented to determine gaps 14:33:10 #info Focus on Brahmaputra 14:33:17 #undo 14:33:17 Removing item from minutes: 14:33:54 #info Focus on Brahmaputra for performance as we have confidence that Brahmputra works correctly 14:34:09 #info Same for functest 14:35:54 #action Billy: Check if our scenario will be run nightly against C-release 14:37:29 #info Colorado will need to be setup and tested to ensure it still functions correctly 14:38:51 #info Manual test would be more efficient to do this before CI is set up. This will help expose any gotchas such as cabling, issues with installing the fuel iso 14:39:06 #topic Documentation 14:40:54 #info General OPNFV installation document could have been better. For colorado, each scenario would have its own installation guide. 14:41:23 #info This would be based off a template installation guide for the os-nosdn-nofeature-ha scenario 14:41:39 #info We are waiting on this template from the documentation project. 14:42:13 #topic Project Milestones update 14:42:28 #info David Mc Bride is looking for project milestone updates 14:42:43 #link https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/SWREL/Releases+Colorado+Projects 14:43:14 #action Mark to update project milestones 14:44:41 #action Mark to check the scenario dependencies to ensure that our scenario is dependent on the ovs-nsh plugin with a particular configuration (instead of the deprecated ovs plugin) 14:45:05 #info Billy will also highlight this to the fuel team but we might need to inform Fatih 14:45:50 #info Apex updates 14:46:17 #info Tom will provide updates offline. 14:46:35 #info We are passed feature freeze. Has it been deployed/ 14:46:42 #info It would be nice to get a demo. 14:47:12 #topic Feature development 14:47:17 #info Thanks for the comments 14:47:24 #info Mark needs to update based on the comments. 14:47:57 #info Mark got some other comments in private via email so I will update based on them aswell 14:48:49 #topic Other topics 14:49:10 #info Is there a link for good general OPNFV documentation 14:49:50 #link https://www.opnfv.org/opnfv-brahmaputra-fuel-users 14:50:19 or for other installer https://www.opnfv.org/software/download 14:50:31 thanks Billy 14:51:43 #info Full installation required a lot of infrastructure 14:51:50 #undo 14:51:50 Removing item from minutes: 14:52:08 #info Full installation required a lot of infrastructure for bare metal 14:52:33 #info Virtual install needs to be tested for OVSNFV with colorado release. 14:52:45 #endmeeting