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+ | ** Sirshak Das | ||
+ | ** Stanislav Chlebec | ||
+ | ** Sachin Saxena | ||
+ | ** Khemendra Kumar | ||
+ | ** Andy Wang | ||
** Honnappa Nagarahalli | ** Honnappa Nagarahalli | ||
** Tina Tsou | ** Tina Tsou | ||
** Andrew Pinski | ** Andrew Pinski | ||
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** John Bromhead | ** John Bromhead | ||
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** Juraj Linkes | ** Juraj Linkes | ||
** rkinsell | ** rkinsell | ||
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* Action Items - Last Week | * Action Items - Last Week | ||
− | ** Nitin: Run a VPP performance test to understand if the memcpy neon version provides any benefits. | + | ** Nitin: Run a VPP performance test to understand if the memcpy neon version provides any benefits. - Able to run with l3fwd test case. Gives better numbers. |
** Sirshak: Create a higher LF ticket so that it is easier for Trishan/Acton/Venessa/Mohammed to follow up on bringing up ThunderX/mcbin - Not Created yet as I think we are close to solving the issue. If its not solved after today's call will create the tkt. | ** Sirshak: Create a higher LF ticket so that it is easier for Trishan/Acton/Venessa/Mohammed to follow up on bringing up ThunderX/mcbin - Not Created yet as I think we are close to solving the issue. If its not solved after today's call will create the tkt. | ||
− | ** Nitin: start email discussion with Dave to address the creation of single makefile for all ARMv8 devices | + | ** Nitin: start email discussion with Dave to address the creation of single makefile for all ARMv8 devices. Still understanding cross compilation works. Communicating with Sachin. |
* New Joinees | * New Joinees | ||
− | ** | + | ** Stanislav Chlebec - pantheon |
* fd.io lab | * fd.io lab | ||
** Follow up on ThunderX to getting mgmt IP - IP addresses are assigned, but are not up yet.- Have a call today to discuss this with Mohammed | ** Follow up on ThunderX to getting mgmt IP - IP addresses are assigned, but are not up yet.- Have a call today to discuss this with Mohammed | ||
− | ** Release Machine to EdK as soon as ThunderX is up. | + | ** USB to Ethernet Question: Andrew: shows up as Ethernet interface. |
− | ** Cavium has shipped more machines as well - Delivered a week back. Tina to follow up with Trishan. | + | ** Release Machine to EdK as soon as ThunderX is up. - Sirshak to set mgmt IP and handover the machine. |
+ | ** Cavium has shipped more machines as well - Delivered a week back. Tina to follow up with Trishan: 2 Delivered. Sirshak to ask in todays meeting for status on new ThunderX. | ||
** See the Taishan setup for any VM issue. - Sirshak is trying to reproduce the issue. - Reproduced still debugging. | ** See the Taishan setup for any VM issue. - Sirshak is trying to reproduce the issue. - Reproduced still debugging. | ||
+ | ** Khemendra : Topology is correct. Sirshak to ask about CSIT performance topology connection status. | ||
+ | ** Khemendra: Intel NIC to be used or Mellanox. HN: Intially use Intel later move to Mellanox. | ||
* VPP | * VPP | ||
− | ** VPP-1064 Dave Barach rejected the patch based on the solution Damjan and Nitin had decided upon following the reason that current approach breaks cross compilation. - NXP has upstreamed the DPAA2 patch, uses a separate segment makefile (dpaa.mk) for DPAA2. NXP does cross compilation most of the time. The approach could be that all platforms create a segment makefile and combine all of them into a single ARMv8 segment makefile. | + | ** VPP-1064 Dave Barach rejected the patch based on the solution Damjan and Nitin had decided upon following the reason that current approach breaks cross compilation. - NXP has upstreamed the DPAA2 patch, uses a separate segment makefile (dpaa.mk) for DPAA2. NXP does cross compilation most of the time. The approach could be that all platforms create a segment makefile and combine all of them into a single ARMv8 segment makefile. - Nitin Still discussing with Sachin regrading cross compilation |
− | ** One solution suggested was creating a platform specific Makefile for ThunderX - Any Decisions | + | ** One solution suggested was creating a platform specific Makefile for ThunderX - Any Decisions - Same as above. |
− | ** memcpy benchmarking updates honnappa - | + | ** memcpy benchmarking updates honnappa - 2 more tests to be done based on Ola's suggestion. Nitin tested with restrict. |
− | ** 1019: | + | ** 1019: No update. Few rough edges to clean up. |
− | ** 1021: Is it Closed ? | + | ** 1021: Is it Closed ? Closed. |
− | ** 1023: migrated to openssl using DPDK manual but facing failed TCs - openSSL is integrated in his local environment - VPP not stable in his environment - Updated in the ticket. | + | ** 1023: migrated to openssl using DPDK manual but facing failed TCs - openSSL is integrated in his local environment - VPP not stable in his environment - Updated in the ticket. Status: Aadarsh still trying to get help from community. Khem, Aadarsh to talk to Sachin regarding openssl issues. |
− | ** 1043: No updates | + | ** 1043: No updates. Sirshak to investigate this. |
** 990: Brian Updates: | ** 990: Brian Updates: | ||
− | ** 1267: l3fwd performance tuning: Marvell to upstream a patch to enable dpdk on mcbin by making changes to dpdk plugin in vpp. Updates: | + | ** 1267: l3fwd performance tuning: Marvell to upstream a patch to enable dpdk on mcbin by making changes to dpdk plugin in vpp. Updates: natalie sent a email. Working on upstreaming changes to VPP for dpdk_plugin. Working on comparing musdk vs dpdk. |
− | ** Auto-detection of memory channels: Startup conf solution decided. Updates: | + | ** Auto-detection of memory channels: Startup conf solution decided. Updates: No updates not priorty now bug raised by Nitin. |
− | ** Sachin facing issues with build rpm currently on 1801 will open a Jira Tkt if issues persists with 1804. Updates: | + | ** Sachin facing issues with build rpm currently on 1801 will open a Jira Tkt if issues persists with 1804. Updates: Jira VPP-1276 to track this issue. |
* CSIT | * CSIT | ||
− | ** Adarsh openssl issues: | + | ** Adarsh openssl issues: Will communicate with Sachin to get this reolved |
− | ** Performance Testing Khem : NUMA node numbering issue Updates: | + | ** Adarsh preparing a sheet updated with his progress on CSIT. |
− | ** Khem facing issues with trex installation on ARM hence he will try getting a x86 machine as TG. Updates: | + | ** Performance Testing Khem : NUMA node numbering issue Updates: No updates. Still working internally. |
+ | ** Khem facing issues with trex installation on ARM hence he will try getting a x86 machine as TG. Updates: Still working on getting an x86 in internal lab. | ||
** brian to use cache stashing result. Updates: | ** brian to use cache stashing result. Updates: | ||
Revision as of 14:32, 15 May 2018
Contents
Get Involved
Meeting Details
- Regular AArch64 meeting: Tuesdays at 06:00 PT (Pacific Time) (weekly). Convert to your timezone.
IRC Channel
#fdio-arm
on freenode.net
Jira
Release Milestones
18.10
18.07
18.04
- CI
- Upstream patch verification on ARMv8 machines
- .deb packages
Machines
The FD.io lab is hosted at VEXXHOST colocation centre in Montreal Québec, Canada.
- CI build servers integrated into Jenkins
- CSIT test beds (under construction)
Platform | Role | Status | Hostname | IP | IPMI | Cores | RAM | Ethernet |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SoftIron OverDrive 1000 | CI build server | Running | softiron-1 | 10.30.51.12 | N/A | 4 | 8GB | |
CI build server | Running | softiron-2 | 10.30.51.13 | N/A | 4 | 8GB | ||
CI build server | Running | softiron-3 | 10.30.51.14 | N/A | 4 | 8GB | ||
Cavium ThunderX | CI build server | ? | cavium-1 | 10.30.51.38 | 10.30.50.38 | 96 | 128GB | 3x40GbE QSFP+ / 4x10GbE SFP+ |
CI build server | ? | cavium-2 | 10.30.51.39 | 10.30.50.39 | 96 | 128GB | 3x40GbE QSFP+ / 4x10GbE SFP+ | |
CI build server | ? | cavium-3 | 10.30.51.40 | 10.30.50.40 | 96 | 128GB | 3x40GbE QSFP+ / 4x10GbE SFP+ | |
Huawei TaiShan 2280 | CSIT testbed | Running | s15-t33-sut1 | 10.30.51.36 | 10.30.50.36 | 64 | 128GB | 2x10GbE SFP+ Intel 82599 / 2x25GbE SFP28 Mellanox CX-4 |
CSIT testbed | Running | s16-t33-sut2 | 10.30.51.37 | 10.30.50.37 | 64 | 128GB | 2x10GbE SFP+ Intel 82599 / 2x25GbE SFP28 Mellanox CX-4 | |
Marvell MACCHIATObin | CSIT testbed | ? | s18-t34-sut1 | 10.30.51.41 | N/A | 4 | 16GB | 2x10GbE SFP+ |
CSIT testbed | ? | s19-t34-sut2 | 10.30.51.42 | N/A | 4 | 16GB | 2x10GbE SFP+ | |
CSIT testbed | ? | mcbin-3 | 10.30.51.43 | N/A | 4 | 16GB | 2x10GbE SFP+ |
Note: to get lab access, open a ticket at https://rt.linuxfoundation.org/
CI
Covers automated build, unit test, and packaging for various Linux distros on ARMv8 machines.
Jenkins job | Status | Description |
---|---|---|
vpp-arm-verify-master-ubuntu1604 | Running | xxx |
vpp-arm-merge-master-ubuntu1604 | Running | xxx |
vpp-arm-verify-1804-ubuntu1604 | Running | xxx |
vpp-arm-merge-1804-ubuntu1604 | Running | xxx |
Next steps:
-
make test
added toverify
jobs - Clang build
- openSUSE Leap 15 | CentOS 7 | Ubuntu 18.04
-
vpp-csit-verify-virl-master
or equivalent CSIT functional testing
CSIT
Covers automated functional and performance integration testing on ARMv8 3-node and 2-node testbeds.
https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/AArch64
Known Issues
GCC 5.3 ICEs during FP register allocation. Please use GCC 5.4 or newer.
Activity
Recent Patches
Meeting Minutes
5/15/2018
- Attendees
- Sirshak Das
- Stanislav Chlebec
- Sachin Saxena
- Khemendra Kumar
- Andy Wang
- Honnappa Nagarahalli
- Tina Tsou
- Andrew Pinski
- John Bromhead
- Juraj Linkes
- rkinsell
- Nitin Saxena
- Ed Kern
- Action Items - Last Week
- Nitin: Run a VPP performance test to understand if the memcpy neon version provides any benefits. - Able to run with l3fwd test case. Gives better numbers.
- Sirshak: Create a higher LF ticket so that it is easier for Trishan/Acton/Venessa/Mohammed to follow up on bringing up ThunderX/mcbin - Not Created yet as I think we are close to solving the issue. If its not solved after today's call will create the tkt.
- Nitin: start email discussion with Dave to address the creation of single makefile for all ARMv8 devices. Still understanding cross compilation works. Communicating with Sachin.
- New Joinees
- Stanislav Chlebec - pantheon
- fd.io lab
- Follow up on ThunderX to getting mgmt IP - IP addresses are assigned, but are not up yet.- Have a call today to discuss this with Mohammed
- USB to Ethernet Question: Andrew: shows up as Ethernet interface.
- Release Machine to EdK as soon as ThunderX is up. - Sirshak to set mgmt IP and handover the machine.
- Cavium has shipped more machines as well - Delivered a week back. Tina to follow up with Trishan: 2 Delivered. Sirshak to ask in todays meeting for status on new ThunderX.
- See the Taishan setup for any VM issue. - Sirshak is trying to reproduce the issue. - Reproduced still debugging.
- Khemendra : Topology is correct. Sirshak to ask about CSIT performance topology connection status.
- Khemendra: Intel NIC to be used or Mellanox. HN: Intially use Intel later move to Mellanox.
- VPP
- VPP-1064 Dave Barach rejected the patch based on the solution Damjan and Nitin had decided upon following the reason that current approach breaks cross compilation. - NXP has upstreamed the DPAA2 patch, uses a separate segment makefile (dpaa.mk) for DPAA2. NXP does cross compilation most of the time. The approach could be that all platforms create a segment makefile and combine all of them into a single ARMv8 segment makefile. - Nitin Still discussing with Sachin regrading cross compilation
- One solution suggested was creating a platform specific Makefile for ThunderX - Any Decisions - Same as above.
- memcpy benchmarking updates honnappa - 2 more tests to be done based on Ola's suggestion. Nitin tested with restrict.
- 1019: No update. Few rough edges to clean up.
- 1021: Is it Closed ? Closed.
- 1023: migrated to openssl using DPDK manual but facing failed TCs - openSSL is integrated in his local environment - VPP not stable in his environment - Updated in the ticket. Status: Aadarsh still trying to get help from community. Khem, Aadarsh to talk to Sachin regarding openssl issues.
- 1043: No updates. Sirshak to investigate this.
- 990: Brian Updates:
- 1267: l3fwd performance tuning: Marvell to upstream a patch to enable dpdk on mcbin by making changes to dpdk plugin in vpp. Updates: natalie sent a email. Working on upstreaming changes to VPP for dpdk_plugin. Working on comparing musdk vs dpdk.
- Auto-detection of memory channels: Startup conf solution decided. Updates: No updates not priorty now bug raised by Nitin.
- Sachin facing issues with build rpm currently on 1801 will open a Jira Tkt if issues persists with 1804. Updates: Jira VPP-1276 to track this issue.
- CSIT
- Adarsh openssl issues: Will communicate with Sachin to get this reolved
- Adarsh preparing a sheet updated with his progress on CSIT.
- Performance Testing Khem : NUMA node numbering issue Updates: No updates. Still working internally.
- Khem facing issues with trex installation on ARM hence he will try getting a x86 machine as TG. Updates: Still working on getting an x86 in internal lab.
- brian to use cache stashing result. Updates:
- Action Items - Next Week
5/8/2018
- Attendees
- Honnappa Nagarahalli
- Tina Tsou
- Andrew Pinski
- Natalie Samsonov
- John Bromhead
- Sachin Saxena
- Khemendra Kumar
- Andy Wang
- Juraj Linkes
- rkinsell
- Nitin Saxena
- Ed Kern
- Action Items - Last Week
- Sirshak: Follow up with Mohammed regarding ThunderX mgmt connectivity and mcbin - IP addresses allocated cavium-2 has IPMI connectivity but console still hanging. cavium-1,3 - Not able to connect to IPMI. - Create a higher LF ticket so that it is easier for Trishan/Acton/Venessa/Mohammed to follow up.
- Sirshak to hold a call with Khem and Adarsh to understand the Vm_vhsot issue because of nested VMs - Contact established still working on analyzing the setup.
- Sirshak to create consolidated ARM ecosystem xls to reflect CSIT effort. (Need to add the link to the excel sheet to AArch64 page) - Not Done will do it next week.
- Honnappa: memcpy benchmarking - Micro benchmarks run on mcbin, qualcomm - vector Load/Store usually go to the LSU unit
- Brian : CSIT-990(buildroot) - Nitin ran on mcbin, it is failing at a different place - Brian to continue next week
- Brian to publish a pictorial representation of rx queues and tx queues in multicore case for mcbin. - Moved to next week
- Khem to analyze make test failure in Taishan - 1804 - Tested with the latest code (make test), all test cases passing
- ARM - For TG for deciding connectivity - MCBin and Taishan - Sirshak/Brian working on it.
- Sirshak/Brian to recheck validity of ASLR issue. - Not Done. Next Week.
- New Joinees
- Yuval Caduri - from Marvell responsible for MUSDK driver - packet processor 8K chips
- Natalie - responsible for network PMD DPDK driver
- Dmitri Epshtein - Responsible for crypto driver expert
- fd.io lab
- Follow up on ThunderX to getting mgmt IP - IP addresses are assigned, but are not up yet.
- Release Machine to EdK as soon as ThunderX is up.
- Cavium has shipped more machines as well - Delivered a week back. Tina to follow up with Trishan.
- See the Taishan setup for any VM issue. - Sirshak is trying to reproduce the issue.
- VPP
- VPP-1064 Dave Barach rejected the patch based on the solution Damjan and Nitin had decided upon following the reason that current approach breaks cross compilation. - NXP has upstreamed the DPAA2 patch, uses a separate segment makefile (dpaa.mk) for DPAA2. NXP does cross compilation most of the time. The approach could be that all platforms create a segment makefile and combine all of them into a single ARMv8 segment makefile.
- One solution suggested was creating a platform specific Makefile for ThunderX
- Honnappa Suggested as this not just a ThunderX issue but also Qualcomm issue hence a ARM specific Makefile would be better.(Issue 128 byte Cache Line Size)
- Honnappa no update on memcpy benchmarking will do that next week
- 1019: fixed in local will upstream soon - Patch has issues and some of the issues are fixed
- 1021: Patch submitted centos env issue CSIT follow up. - This can be closed
- 1023: migrated to openssl using DPDK manual but facing failed TCs - openSSL is integrated in his local environment - VPP not stable in his environment - Updated in the ticket.
- 1043: No updates
- 990: Brian to Retry on mcbin
- 1267: l3fwd performance tuning: Marvell to upstream a patch to enable dpdk on mcbin by making changes to dpdk plugin in vpp.
- Auto-detection of memory channels: Andrew's comment no really way to do that hence to go with making it a runtime argument via startup conf instead of being hard coded.
- Sachin facing issues with build rpm currently on 1801 will open a Jira Tkt if issues persists with 1804.
- CSIT
- Adarsh stalled with failure of test cases after using openssl.
- Performance Testing Khem : NUMA node numbering issue.
- NUMA node no issue not seen in ThunderX. Khem to post the details of issue and the workaround on Taishan.
- Khem facing issues with trex installation on ARM hence he will try getting a x86 machine as TG.
- Nitin known issue with trex with arm and mellanox card.
- Khem to try L2BD and L2XC.
- brian to use cache stashing and see the results.
- Action Items - Next Week
- Nitin: Run a VPP performance test to understand if the memcpy neon version provides any benefits.
- Sirshak: Create a higher LF ticket so that it is easier for Trishan/Acton/Venessa/Mohammed to follow up on bringing up ThunderX/mcbin
- Nitin: start email discussion with Dave to address the creation of single makefile for all ARMv8 devices
5/1/2018
- New Joinees
- Natalie and Yuval from Marvell for engineering input.
- fd.io lab
- Follow up on ThunderX to getting mgmt IP
- Release Machine to EdK as soon as ThunderX is up.
- Cavium has shipped more machines as well.
- See the Taishan setup for any VM issue.
- VPP
- VPP-1064 Dave Barach rejected the patch based on the solution Damjan and Nitin had decided upon following the reason that current approach breaks cross compilation.
- One solution suggested was creating a platform specific Makefile for ThunderX
- Honnappa Suggested as this not just a ThunderX issue but also Qualcomm issue hence a ARM specific Makefile would be better.(Issue 128 byte Cache Line Size)
- Honnappa no update on memcpy benchmarking will do that next week
- 1019: fixed in local will upstream soon
- 1021: Patch submitted centos env issue CSIT follow up.
- 1023: migrated to openssl using DPDK manual but facing failed TCs
- 1043: No updates
- 990: Brian to Retry on mcbin
- 1267: l3fwd performance tuning: Marvell to upstream a patch to enable dpdk on mcbin by making changes to dpdk plugin in vpp.
- Auto-detection of memory channels: Andrew's comment no really way to do that hence to go with making it a runtime argument via startup conf instead of being hard coded.
- Sachin facing issues with build rpm currently on 1801 will open a Jira Tkt if issues persists with 1804.
- CSIT
- Adarsh stalled with failure of test cases after using openssl.
- Performance Testing Khem : NUMA node numbering issue.
- NUMA node no issue not seen in ThunderX. Khem to post the details of issue and the workaround on Taishan.
- Khem facing issues with trex installation on ARM hence he will try getting a x86 machine as TG.
- Nitin known issue with trex with arm and mellanox card.
- Khem to try L2BD and L2XC.
- brian to use cache stashing and see the results.
- Action Items - Next Week
- Sirshak: Follow up with Mohammed regarding ThunderX mgmt connectivity and mcbin.
- Sirshak to hold a call with Khem and Adarsh to understand the Vm_vhsot issue because of nested VMs - Not done yet will do it next week.
- Sirshak to create consolidated ARM ecosystem xls to reflect CSIT effort. - Not Done will do it next week.
- Honnappa: memcpy benchmarking
- Brian : CSIT-990(buildroot)
- Brian to publish a pictorial representation of rx queues and tx queues in multicore case for mcbin. - Moved to next week
- Khem to analyze make test failure in Taishan - 1804 - Next Week
- ARM - For TG for deciding connectivity - MCBin and Taishan - Working on it.
- CSIT 990 brian to try - Next Week
- Sirshak/Brian to recheck validity of ASLR issue. - Not Done. Next Week.
- Action Items - Last Week
- Khem to ask mohammed, anton for power clearance for 2 new taishan. - Ok for Power Clearance
- Sirshak to hold a call with Khem and Adarsh to understand the Vm_vhsot issue because of nested VMs - Not done yet will do it next week.
- Sirshak and Brian to discuss on TG connectivity. - Done
- Sirshak to create consolidated ARM ecosystem xls to reflect CSIT effort. - Not Done will do it next week.
- Nitin: To post vlib_main 1804_rc2 issue to community. - Done
- Sirshak : to check if vlib_main is a issue in centriq. - Done
- Nitin: AI for creating Jira for number of memory channel identification. - Done
- Brian to publish a pictorial representation of rx queues and tx queues in multicore case for mcbin. - Moved to next week
- John B - 1G to USB adapters Ship to lab. - Done
- Khem to analyze make test failure in Taishan - 1802 rc2 - Next Week
- ARM - For TG for deciding connectivity - MCBin and Taishan - Working on it.
- CSIT 990 brian to try - Next Week
- Sirshak to take 1103 and 1114 - Done
- Nitin to Create l3fwd tkt - Done
- Brian to create a mcbin crash tkt. Next Week
- Maen to provide contact for IO Stashing on mcbin. - Contacted Brian. Brian to provide further input.
- Sirshak/Brian to recheck validity of ASLR issue. - Not Done. Next Week.
4/25/2018
- Meeting Time
- Proposed time 6-8am Tuesday PST.
- Tina to update wiki with new meeting time.
- FD.io lab
- ThunderX
- OS installed on ThunderX. Switch being sent.
- 1 ThunderX booted.
- Plan to use 1G to USB adapters.
- Varun POC for Cavium.
- Taishan
- Its up and connected to Internet.
- Build and make test 2 TCs failing (VCL TCs failing) - 1802 rc2 used.
- Brian no update for TG - Meeting on it next week.
- Khem to ask mohammed, anton for power clearance for 2 new taishan.
- MCBin
- Maen POC - To Contact Mohammed.
- Maen to provide engineering contact for help to Nitin.
- ThunderX
- VPP
- Round Table status on Porting tkts.
- Nitin: vlib_main taking a lot of time on both mcbin and thunderx2
- Sirshak to take on ARM tkts.
- CSIT
- Adarsh looking at IPv4 failed test cases with priorty.
- Sirshak to hold a call with Khem and Adarsh to understand the Vm_vhsot issue because of nested VMs
- Cavium to publish mcbin cist performance nos but low priority. Nitin faced build-root issue with this.
- Maciek to host a kick off call.
- Sirshak and Brian to discuss on TG connectivity.
- Sirshak to create consolidated ARM ecosystem xls to reflect CSIT effort.
- Performance Benchmarking
- Nitin: To post vlib_main 1804_rc2 issue to community.
- Nitin: vlib_main issue in mcbin and thunderx2 at different points within the function. Not a hotspot in x86.
- Sirshak : to check if vlib_main is a issue in centriq.
- Nitin: AI for creating Jira for number of memory channel identification.
- AI for creating Jira for the crash on Mcbin – Brian
- Khem to get started on CSIT performance suite this week and publish on shared xls.
- Brian to publish a pictorial representation of rx queues and tx queues in multicore case for mcbin.
- Action Items - Last Week
- Sirshak to add link to xls to wiki page. - Done by somebody else.
- Brian to raise LF RT ticket about MACCHIATObins - Done. Pinged Mohammed yet hear back from him.
- Nitin to check 'make test' on MACCHIATObin (16GB DRAM) - Failed. Error related to Python scripts.
- Honnappa, Khem to check Clang build on arm64. - Tried clang build on Centriq made some changes still fails. clang on x86 has errors still passes. 'make test' fails on x86. Jira Card to be created - AI(Sirshak). Khem to try.
- Action Items
- John B- 1G to USB adapters Ship to lab.
- Khem to analyze make test failure in Taishan - 1802 rc2
- ARM - For TG for deciding connectivity - MCBin and Taishan
- CSIT 990 brian to try
- Sirshak to take 1103 and 1114
- Nitin to Create l3fwd tkt
- Brian to create a mcbin crash tkt.
- Maen to provide contact for IO Stashing on mcbin.
- Sirshak/Brian to recheck validity of ASLR issue.
- Sirshak to track down issues.
4/18/2018
- FD.io lab
- Temporarily borrow 1x ThunderX to be used for ONAP demo at OpenStack Summit (end of May)? Yes.
- OS exists on ThunderXs; Varun will keysign with EdW; need to resolve OS netdev connectivity over 10/40GbE
- OS exists on TaiShan2280; no connectivity to the Internet
- VPP
- RC2
- 'make' passes, 'make test' fail, 'make test-all' ??? - MACCHIATObin (4GB DRAM)
- 'make' passes, 'make test' pass, 'make test-all' fails - Centriq
- 'make' passes, 'make test' pass, 'make test-all' fails - x86
- Build
- Testing Verify and Merge jobs for 18.04 master on arm64 today
- Clang build fails on arm? 'CC=clang CXX=clang make'
- RC2
- CSIT
- Adarsh updated CSIT status in xls
- CSIT-1023: decided to go with OpenSSL instead of ARMv8 crypto library, in DPDK, due to number of algorithms supported
- e.g. AES-GCM not supported by ARMv8 crypto library
- Nitin updated CSIT-990 (buildroot) with more information
- Action Items
- Sirshak to add link to xls to wiki page.
- Brian to raise LF RT ticket about MACCHIATObins
- Nitin to check 'make test' on MACCHIATObin (16GB DRAM)
- Honnappa, Khem to check Clang build on arm64
4/11/2018
- Proposal to keep meeting at current time with additional overflow meeting at 8AM PST
- FD.io lab
- MACCHIATObins just arrived at VEXXHOST
- Nitin working on getting IPMI login credentials to provision OS on ThunderX
- Need to connect Skylake TG machines to Arm machines
- ETA: 1wk
- Khem working with Aton (LF) to provision OS on TaiShan2280
- ETA: 1wk, Ubuntu 17.10
- VPP
- Brian to do more benchmarking on MACCHIATObin
- Khem working on benchmarking clib_memcpy64_x4()
- CSIT
- Lucian submitted patches for CSIT-1019, CSIT-1021
- Lucian looking for contact for ARMv8 crypto driver in DPDK for CSIT-1023
- See CSIT-1023 for details; looks like DPDK issue?
- Nitin to add more details to CSIT-990
- Action Items
- Sirshak to move JIRA tickets to xls
- Lucian to work with Nitin/Jerin on CSIT-1023
4/4/2018
- Propose to move the meeting +2 hours?
- RC1 cut today
- FD.io lab
- Allocate 3 ThunderX for EdK to integrate into CI
- JohnB from Cavium agreed to supply 3 more ThunderX for CSIT (will pre-install FW & OS)
- Brian working on provisioning SSDs for MACCHIATObins
- Khem can ping IPMI interfaces on TaiShan2280s; also needs an OS to be installed
- Allocate 3 ThunderX for EdK to integrate into CI
- VPP
- Discussed ONS slides
- Khem has patch for clib_memcpy64_x4() and needs help benchmarking
- CSIT
- Lucian found and created JIRA tickets for 3 issues while running CSIT
- Nitin created JIRA ticket for buildroot issue
- Khem seeing issues with VM
- Action Items
- Nitin/Varun to help provision Ubuntu 16.04 and firmware update on ThunderX machines
3/28/2018
- Sachin Saxena from NXP joined the call, welcome
- FD.io lab
- Khemendra is having issues with Rudy's emails. Hence, not been able to access Taishan servers
- Nitin will try to access the servers this week
- MACCHIATObin setup under progress
- OD1000 is added to Jenkins slave. The build is failing currently. The build can be triggered manually.
- VPP
- Discuss Single core, L3Fwd sample perf numbers and analysis next week
- Sachin is working on compiling 18.01. Native compilation works fine, cross compilation is failing
- Nitin still working on patch for cache line size
- VPP-1126 is being used in DPDK input node. Khemendra will take a look at it this week.
- VPP-1129 Brian/Sirshak will take a look. Looks like it can be closed.
- VPP-1114 Patch under internal review
- CSIT
- Khemendra having issues with interface bring up failing intermittently. Nitin suggested to add delay.
- Nicolas/Lucian debugging TC-07
- Khemendra having issues with TG VM crashing randomly with Ubuntu 16.04, QEMU 2.10. Solved by moving to Ubuntu 17.10, QEMU 2.10
- Nitin using Ubuntu 16.04 with 4.13 kernel
- Action Items
- Discuss Single core, L3Fwd sample perf numbers and analysis next week - Brian
- VPP-1126 Take a look this week as it affects DPDK input node - Khemendra
- Need more attention on solution for buildroot issue, need more information on failure CSIT-990 - Nitin
- Create an excel sheet with the test case status - Nicolas/Lucian
3/21/2018
- Key signing party! Thank you Ed!
- FD.io lab
- VEXXHOST currently working on getting another PDU because there are not enough power ports
- Received SSDs for MACCHIATObins
- VPP
- Discuss high level plan for VPP on Arm
- Nitin still working on patch for cache line size
- CSIT
- Need more attention on solution for buildroot issue CSIT-990
- Nitin moving towards L2 & L3 perf test cases
- VM crash due to buffer overflow when multiple VMs share NVRAM; resolved in Fedora27
3/14/2018
- Key signing party! Thank you Ed!
- FD.io lab
- ToR switch issue resolved; confirm mgmt IP address assignment to racked Huawei/Cavium machines
- Started provisioning MACCHIATObins; Andy ordered SSDs to go with them
- VPP
- No updates
- CSIT
- Adarsh started running CSIT on virtual topology; moved past a paramiko issue, seeing other test failures
- Ongoing discussions on getting Adrian access to machines
3/7/2018
- FD.io lab
- Trishan (LF) to help follow up on progress in FD.io lab
- VPP
- More discussion on patch for cache line size; use MIDR register exported by proc fs
- Decision has been made to use wrappers for atomics
- Damjan reworked PCI handling code and added native driver for Intel AVF (XL710 i.e. Fortville)
- Measuring 132 clocks per packet on Skylake (ip4 routing) with VLIB_FRAME_SIZE 256 (default); +1Mpps over DPDK avf/i40e PMD
- Damjan reworked memcpy() in MEMIF; achieve 2x25GbE line rate with these changes
- Sirshak working on getting VPP running on Qualcomm Centriq with Mellanox NIC
- Seeing issues with external DPDK; static works but not shared; is VPP build system missing -libverbs -lmlx5 in LDFLAGS?
- Nitin noticed DPDK 17.11 Mellanox PMD does not compile
- Mellanox recently submitted a patch to VPP to support dynamic loading of Mellanox libraries
- CSIT
- Adrian does not have machines to work with in Bucharest; machine in Paris that Gabriel was using no longer available
- AndyW to help resolve
- Adarsh moved past VM issues; able to launch VPP in VM with virtio interface; starting to run CSIT scripts
- Adrian does not have machines to work with in Bucharest; machine in Paris that Gabriel was using no longer available
2/28/2018
- FD.io lab
- Ed Kern to try containerized CI on one OD1000 in parallel with Vanessa
- Received MACCHIATObins in Austin
- VPP
- Adarsh trying to run VPP in VM but getting PCI mapping issue; trying to connect to Linux bridge on host
- Patches for build breakage were committed; arm64 build stable now
- Brian able to reproduce low PPS numbers seen on MACCHIATObin
- CSIT
- Adarsh can reproduce a crash in qemu 2.10 Ubuntu 16.04; going to try Ubuntu 17.10
- Need to partition func test cases across people
2/21/2018
- FD.io lab
- CSIT
- Gabriel updated CSIT/AArch64 wiki with PASS/FAIL/OTHER list
- OTHER - failure due to expect-like parsing of output(?)
- FAIL - ssh timeout during PCIe rescan(?)
- Moved past first UEFI crash; still seeing crashing on startup (Gabriel)
- Setup new Ubuntu environment
- Continue debugging UEFI issue on Fedora with JeremyL
- Ubuntu is used pretty much everywhere except for additional CentOS CSIT perf
- Nitin working on upstreaming changes to CSIT
- Adarsh working on getting VM interfaces working
- Gabriel updated CSIT/AArch64 wiki with PASS/FAIL/OTHER list
- VPP
- More discussion on how to handle cache line size
- Sync'd on patches for build breakage
2/14/2018
- FD.io lab
- Working on getting access to LF lab in order to setup OD1000 environment
- Check with tykeal & zxiiro on trust policy for getting others access (Brian)
- VEXXHOST
- Mohammed says they do not have extra rack shelf - we need to send one for 3x MACCHIATObin
- LF RT tickets: #52434 (ThunderX), #52435 (TaiShan2280), #52436 (MACCHIATObin)
- VPP
- Build, unit test, deb/rpm
- 64B/128B cache line size - working on passing this configuration to rest of build system i.e. DPDK (Nitin)
- RPi3 32-bit
- Some parts of patch are 32-bit related, some RPi3 related
- If there is justification, look into maintaining a 32-bit build on ARM
- Porting & Tuning
- If patches need to be tested on multiple Arm chips, please use DO_NOT_MERGE and Code Review -2
- Two NEON related patches merged, working in progress on others, Nitin testing CLASSIFY_USE_SSE
- Build, unit test, deb/rpm
- CSIT
- Please open JIRA ticket with details on VM crashing on startup. DONE: CSIT-922
- Khem working on running VPP func tests on internal setup
2/7/2018
- LF lab
- OD1000 - last machine was racked; Vanessa needs credentials
- Taishan2280 - machines arrived at Vexxhost; confirm with Rudy/Mohammed
- ThunderX - machines arrived at Vexxhost; send board details to Mohammed
- MACCHIATObin - boards arrived in Arm SJC waiting for enclosures (Andy)
- Build, unit test, packaging
- 64B/128B cache line size - working on it (Nitin)
- Interest in ILP32 from Cavium; customer coming from MIPS32
- VPP
- NEON usage in vhost - sent first patch for review (Nitin)
- Need to verify how it performs on other Arm-based machines (Brian)
- VPP maintainers prefer to use SIMD wrappers, but it might not always be possible
- Cavium/Arm had to rewrite algorithm for AArch64 instead of use SIMD wrappers in DPDK
- CLIB_HAVE_VEC128 - working on it (Gabriel)
- Discussed compiler builtins for atomics in VPP call; need to spin another patch with wrappers based on architecture (Kevin)
- Seeing prefetch hostspots on TX2+MlnxCX4en (similar to Armada8040) (Nitin)
- NEON usage in vhost - sent first patch for review (Nitin)
- CSIT
- libvirt crashing on VM startup (Hierofalcon) (Gabriel)
- Need someone who can reproduce this issue (Arm TBD)
- Huawei also seeing VM issues (Khem)
- buildroot doesn't work on Arm (Nitin)
- Root issue: no support in GRUB for AArch64 in buildroot (?)
- Need someone who can reproduce this issue (Arm TBD)
- Peter Mikus replied to Nitin on csit-dev mail list
- Using a temporary workaround: use a different VM image (Ubuntu Cloud) instead of one produced by buildroot
- Working on patching DPDK in VM image (Ubuntu Cloud) just like done in buildroot
- Root issue: no support in GRUB for AArch64 in buildroot (?)
- libvirt crashing on VM startup (Hierofalcon) (Gabriel)
- Misc
- OpenFlow (Nitin, Damjan)
- Is there an OpenFlow agent for VPP, and can VPP implement OpenFlow rules/tables?
- VPP is not flow-based like OVS is; they are different
- Can ODL/Honeycomb be used?
- OpenFlow (Nitin, Damjan)
1/31/2018
- LF lab
- OD1000 - 1 replacement being installed this week
- Huawei & Cavium boards should arrive at colo this week; confirm with Rudy
- Build, unit test, packaging
- Kubeproxy/NAT failures
- Not arch related
- Part of extended unit tests, so does not block CI
- `make test` passes on D03 & D05 (Ubuntu)
- Kubeproxy/NAT failures
- MACCHIATObin
- Seeing hotspots in VPP graph nodes
- L3 forwarding - ip4 rewrite node
- L2 cross-connect
- Try reducing quad loop to a dual loop
- dpdk-input node highly opt for x86 (could contribute to low perf) but hotspots still in rte_mbuf_t conversion(?)
- Some examples of runtime code selection based on uarch exist in the codebase
- Seeing hotspots in VPP graph nodes
- CSIT
- Adrian Oanca join from Enea
- Gabriel seeing VM crashing during boot; related to # interfaces assigned (6)
- Nitin ran into issue with buildroot on arm64; see thread on csit-dev
1/24/2018
- VPP
- DPDK issue with non-pci network cards
- build & test status updated
- VPP-1127 (VEC_128 enable) under discussion. Should we enable this by default ?
- add Nitin to review Neon commits
- VPP-1114 currently internal review
- VPP-1064 under rework after review by Damjan
- CSIT
- first 3-nodes functional tests status list
- TODO Gabriel: share CSIT VM setup env
- nested VM: build-root package support for ARM. Create Jira ticket for Brian.
1/17/2018
- Tina to send calendar invite for meeting
- FD.io lab
- Cavium shipping
- VPP
- Kubeproxy tests failing
- Khem trying to find out the PCIe address for a given netdev interface
- CSIT
- Gabriel setting up 3 node topo with VMs
- Gabriel working on PASS/FAIL status
- CSIT 17.10 report
1/10/2018
- Meeting moved 2 hours earlier - 6AM PT / 3PM CET / 7:30PM IST / 10PM CST
- FD.io lab
- Cavium ThunderX shipping soon
- VPP
- Kumar to look at VPP-1126
- Gabriel proposed https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/10049/ as follow-up to Damjan's patch
- CSIT
- Gabriel's patch for aarch64 support in CSIT merged
- VirtualBox not supported on Arm / Vagrant unknown
- This is OK for upstream since automation expects VMs to already exist
- Performance
- Need plan for 1T; use TaiShans that were sent to lab
- AIs
- Brian: Follow up with Vanessa and EdW regarding 'resource issue'
- Gabriel: Update CSIT wiki page; which tests are passing/failing?
- Brian: Check with Vanessa how to split machines between CI jobs and CSIT jobs
1/3/2018
- FD.io lab
- One OD1000 sent for RMA
- Huawei PO sent out
- Cavium PO sent out (?)
- VPP
- Gabriel working on patch for "show cpu" to display MIDR as human readable
- Nitin sent preliminary patch for vhost-user NEON impl
- Seeing perf differences on different cores; tradeoff is single-threaded perf vs. NEON
- Kumar built and unit test successfully on D03
- Nitin to resume patch for supporting different cache line sizes for the same arch
- CSIT
- Gabriel cleaned up WIP patch; ready for review
- Kumar starting CSIT func tests with Ubuntu VMs
- Scripts for running on dedicated hardware need to be modified, e.g. PCIe resources
- Kumar to send doc on testing
- Performance
- Kumar to start thread on performance testing
- AIs
- Brian: Check with Tina on shipping and open LF RT ticket once they have arrived
- Brian: Need a way to choose either SW or NEON impl based on chip
- Gabriel: Create list of broken CSIT tests for 2-node topology
12/20/2017 No meeting next week - Dec 27
- FD.io lab
- OD1000s - build only
- 1 of 3 needs to be RMAd
- Can these be up in time to show 'make test' passes on ARM for 18.01 release report?
- TaiShan
- PO in progress
- ThunderX - build only
- PO went out
- OD1000s - build only
- VPP
- Patches / JIRAs
- Patch for extended test failure, but still more (new) extended test failures - Gabriel
- Nitin to post vhost-user.c changes for NEON
- Nitin will finish Gabriel's original NEON patch to add CLIB_HAVE_VEC_128
- Can we share code on Github e.g. NEON perf tests?
- Patches / JIRAs
- CSIT
- Leading question: How many CSIT test cases are passing/failing?
- Environment issues preventing running through all CSIT test cases; Gabriel needs dedicated machines or more RAM
- Cavium & Huawei will join Gabriel in CSIT replication on ARM hardware next week
- Cavium previously ran vhost test cases manually, now moving to CSIT
12/13/2017
- VPP
- Quick overview of work items
- Waiting to hear back from LF about OD1000 connectivity
- Changes needed to ci-mgmt
- CSIT
- Starting to reproduce CSIT on x86 and ARM (with Gabriel's WIP patch)
- Some issues with environment variables (perf tests on 2-node)
- Need Nexus to support aarch64 packages
- Need a contact for Nexus
- Starting to reproduce CSIT on x86 and ARM (with Gabriel's WIP patch)
- Share known issues on wiki!
- Request CSIT 'deep dive'
12/06/2017
- Can we access the OD1000 in csit lab ?
- currently mainly working with VMs
- added dedicated wiki page for CSIT : https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/AArch64
- WIP : https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/9474/
11/29/2017
- VPP
- vhost-user.c - SSE4.2 only. Implement range search using NEON. (nitin)
- OD1000 status ?
- build only
- can we access them ?
- what wan we do to help in general ?
- x86 intrinsic review
- build VPP on ARM VM on x86
- CSIT
- what platforms wil lbe made available
11/22/2017
- VPP CI
- 3 ThunderX for Chrismas
- CSIT
- func on VM vs perfs on HW
- func on x86 VMs OK with 2 nodes
- DPDK integration WIP : https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/9474/
- issues
- how to access the lab ?
- Next steps
- VPP
- CSIT
- structure work & send email (Gabriel)
- is xxhash vs crc32 finished ? (Gabriel)
- ask Maciek & setup a presentation meeting with someone from CSIT (Tina)
- find a time to reschedule this meeting before the CSIT weekly call (Brian)
11/15/2017
- VPP upstream status
- build && build-release OK
- "make test" && "make test-debug" OK
- packaging:
- Ubuntu 16.04 OK
- Ubuntu 17.10 ? (TBC)
- fedora-26 OK
- vpp continuous test
- all task required for jenkin's "verify" job are ready
- TODO: request gerrit hook to Dave Barachs / vpp-dev (NB & GG)
- set up ci in fdio lab
- CSIT
- setting up env
- ThunderX platforms should arrive this week
- csit work sharing
11/8/2017
- Unit tests
- Tests pass except for random initialization failures
- Need to hear back from upstream about Extended unit tests
- Should we run plugins such as NSH SFC?
- Hardware to lab
- Huawei h/w stalled
- 3x ThunderX shipping to FD.io lab
- CSIT replication
- Cavium replicating on ThunderX2; getting started
- Let's track our work in Jira; Brian to migrate tasks to Jira
10/25/2017
- Gabriel working on vpp init failure in linux_pci_init()
- Kumar to check with GeorgeZ on Huawei boards shipped to CSIT; need to verify tests also on this environment (package versions from distro)
- Brian to check whether anything else needs to be done besides 'make test' for upstream enablement