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#fdio-csit: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting
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Meeting started by mackonstan at 14:03:27 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-csit/2020/fd_io_csit_project_meeting/fdio-csit-fd_io_csit_project_meeting.2020-09-30-14.03.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Tibor Frank  (tifrank, 14:03:42)
* Jan Gelety  (jgelety, 14:03:58)
* Agenda bashing  (mackonstan, 14:05:00)

* Inputs from projects - VPP  (mackonstan, 14:05:19)
  * Andrew, pushing v20.09, only open patch is rls notes :)
    (mackonstan, 14:05:55)
  * Andrew, DPDK meson-based build patches reverted after discussion
    (mackonstan, 14:08:48)
  * Jan, it was affecting csit ipsec tests  (mackonstan, 14:08:58)
  * Andres, v20.09 artefacts should be out today, should be good for
    csit testing start tomorrow EU time  (mackonstan, 14:10:04)
  * Damjan voted a new VP PTL  (mackonstan, 14:11:16)
  * Inputs from projects - VSAP  (mackonstan, 14:11:25)
  * #info Inputs from projects - TSC  (mackonstan, 14:11:34)

* Inputs from projects - CNCF  (mackonstan, 14:12:24)
  * Questions coming back about running VPP in unprivileged containers
    (mackonstan, 14:14:18)
  * Andrew, need to investigate first  (mackonstan, 14:14:31)
  * Maciek, let's form a small workgroup to investigate; Dave wants to
    be included  (mackonstan, 14:16:11)
  * Peter, there are number of levels of integration to be investigated,
    not only in standalone unprivileged container, but also container
    distribution, impact of orchestration (e.g. Nomad)  (mackonstan,
    14:17:26)

* Releases CSIT-2009  (mackonstan, 14:19:09)
  * Tibor, RC2 dry runs completed, sample results from 5 runs in draft
    report here  (mackonstan, 14:24:05)
  * LINK:
    https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/_static/vpp/performance-changes-2n-clx-xxv710-2t1c-pdr.txt
    (mackonstan, 14:24:14)
  * Maciek, ip6 rnd tests are missing (unfinished).  (mackonstan,
    14:25:58)
  * RC2 tests results look good, can move ahead with rls and for-report
    testing  (mackonstan, 14:28:06)
  * Jan, nat44det and nat44ed TRex STL tests, fixing bugs/issues with
    ramp-up phase and nat44 session established check, targeting merge
    today EU time …  (mackonstan, 14:29:56)
  * Vratko, nat44ed cps tests with TRex ASTF tests, require one more
    rebase  (mackonstan, 14:30:28)
  * Vratko, cps tests should be ready for final review after dry runs
    tomorrow  (mackonstan, 14:31:00)
  * Vratko, pps tests, doing good progress but still require more time
    to complete  (mackonstan, 14:31:26)
  * Tibor, okay to start testing rls2009 w/o any nat tests or with any
    that are finished by tomorrow, and add remaining nat tests once
    ready and dry runs complete  (mackonstan, 14:34:12)
  * Tibor, this patch needs to be merged before rls2009 testing
    commences  (mackonstan, 14:36:54)
  * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/29036  (mackonstan, 14:36:56)
  * Tibor, report, one or two patches in-review for environment, then
    need to add methodology, rls notes and RCA  (mackonstan, 14:38:46)
  * Maciek, doing methodology  (mackonstan, 14:38:54)
  * Everyone, rls notes  (mackonstan, 14:39:04)
  * Vratko, will lead RCA  (mackonstan, 14:39:27)
  * Keesang, would like to see AMD perf test data to be included in
    CSIT-2009  (mackonstan, 14:40:59)
  * Maciek, DNV testbed are out of production till further notice, see
    ticket for NIC replacements  (mackonstan, 14:41:57)
  * Juraj, Arm Tishans working and included  (mackonstan, 14:42:05)

* Physical Infrastructure  (mackonstan, 14:45:55)
  * Juraj, ThunderX2 phy install completed, onboarding and testing
    continues  (mackonstan, 14:46:55)
  * Keesang, AMD, want to verify the outputs of spectre-meltdown.sh
    script, and will go about updating cpu ucode accordingly.
    (mackonstan, 14:49:08)
  * Keesang, AMD, BIOS versions should be aligned too.  (mackonstan,
    14:52:09)
  * Peter, once bios and ucode points addressed, can go ahead with AMD
    pre-production testing  (mackonstan, 14:56:12)
  * Maciek, FD.io lab extension in 2021, ballpark numbers provided
    (mackonstan, 14:58:32)
  * Maciek, looking for volunteers to help out to assess the impact of
    putting new server build(s) into a new DC location, per Trishan
    question  (mackonstan, 14:59:44)
  * Maciek, Dave, put together a high-level assessment about adding a
    new DC location, run it by key folks involved in VPP and CSIT jobs
    i.e. Andrew, Peter  (mackonstan, 15:00:47)

* Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD  (mackonstan, 15:01:17)
  * Dave, finishing the main automation patch ge28022, should be merging
    and going production next week  (mackonstan, 15:01:47)
  * Juraj, would be great to add Arm builds for Centos and Ubuntu
    (mackonstan, 15:06:07)
  * Dave, will take care of it  (mackonstan, 15:07:29)



Meeting ended at 15:07:32 UTC.



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