CSIT/Meeting

Meeting Details

Weekly on Wednesday 15:00 Greenwich, London time. FD.io Zoom Meeting room (passcode <remove spaces> '4 1 2 3 2 4')
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Topic: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting

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Agenda

The next CSIT meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 27-Jul 15:00-16:00 Greenwich, London time / 07:00-08:00 PST. Proposed topics:

1. Agenda bashing.
2. Inputs from projects
   • FD.io: VPP, TSC, other.
   • FD.io: **vppcfg** new project proposal - readout to CSIT postponed
3. New or being refactored tests
   • E810 flow "offload" tests
     • device: updating tests with new dpdk offload flags, Fan.
     • perf: DONE?, Fan.
       • MERGED 36120: Add gtpu flow offload test suite | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/36120
       • MERGED 36119: Add ipsec policy test suites with flow director or rss accelerated | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/36119
       • Need to add these tests to trending and report job_specs for 3n-icx testbeds only
   • Scale tests revisited
     • Currently amount of executed scale tests is reduced for ip4, ip6, nat, ipsec.
     • This is due to poor performance of PAPI and excessive time taken for configuring VPP.
     • Work to restart to review feasible option to have this fixed, Vratko, Ole, Andrew, Dave.
4. VPP and CSIT hot items
   • Spectre-BHB security vulnerability
     • docs: Add references to Spectre-BHB security vulnerability
     • Waiting for updated spectre-meltdown script.
   • AMD performance results review - FD.io CSIT labs vs. AMD CSIT labs, Keesang et al
     • Current state in CSIT lab.
5. Releases CSIT-2206
   • Testing status
   • Report status
     • CSIT and VPP 22.02 known issues status check, https://lists.fd.io/g/csit-dev/message/4516
   • 100 GbE tests with newly fitted and calibrated MLX ConnectX5-ex and TRex v2.96
     • with 16 pmd threads max aggregate 2x 100 GbE STL performance: 188Mpps TX rate and 133Mpps RX rate
   • telemetry - vpp perfmon and linux bpf telemetry
   • CSIT UTI
     • http://csit.fd.io/trending/
   • New platforms and testbeds: new ICX testbeds, SnowRidge (3n-snr)
   • CVL 100 GbE flow-based tests
6. Physical Infrastructure
   • Performance testing: Xeon Skx/Ckx/Icx, Arm, Atom.
   • Functional driver testing: Xeon Skx, Arm Tx2.
   • Updated LFN FD.io infra support documentation.
   • Lab new hardware builds:
     • Perf - 17 supermicro icx servers
       • 5 servers in production: 2n-icx, 3n-icx testbeds.
       • 2 servers used for TG/TRex machines for new testbed builds (2n-alt).
       • 10 servers being used for new testbeds build
   • AMD requests to increase AMD participation level in CSIT benchmarking, Keesang et al.
   • 2x Atom SnowRidge servers (4RU) onboarding status.
7. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD
   • LFN FD.io CI/CD systems.
   • Jenkins jobs: csit-vpp, vpp-csit, trending.
   • vpp-csit jobs: vpp-csit-verify-device-{..}-tx2 (not voting), vpp-csit-verify-device-{..}-skx (voting)
8. Environment, Framework
   • VPP API changes' tracking.
   • VPP CLI usage in CSIT.
     • Functional checks, e.g. "show nat44 summary" to count established sessions.
       • VPP changed output in: 34877: nat: TCP state tracking based on RFC 7857/RFC 6146 | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/34877
       • CSIT test were failing until fix: 35295: fix(nat): parse new show nat44 summary output | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/csit/+/35295
9. Trending
   • Hoststack tests: Requested tests to be added are the same as CSIT Report Hoststack Iterative Job Specs
   • Daily perf tests: mrr-daily test selection, daily csit-report.
   • Performance trending: Dashboard, Failures.
   • Trendline graphs: L2, IP4, IP6, Vhost, L2 memif, Overlay, Crypto.
   • New dynamic dashboard (CSIT UTI).
   • Failures, anomalies, breakages
     • 3n-skx: First port is down when running traffic profile.
     • 2n-dnv: sporadic 1518B tput tests failing to establish required sessions.
     • 3n-icx, 3n-skx: all AVF crypto tests sporadically fail. 1518B with no traffic, IMIX with excessive packet loss.
     • AF-XDP - NDR tests failing from time to time.
     • 3n-tsh, 3n-alt, 2n-clx testbed (Taishan, Altra, Cascade-lake): NDR tests failing from time to time..
     • VPP does not recognize X553/X557-AT2 10GE.
     • multicore AVF tests are failing when trying to create interface.
     • Not all DET44 sessions have been established: 4128767 != 4128768.
     • VPP-1995 i40e driver issue, vlan stripping for VF not working.
10. Analytics, Presentation.
11. Fd.io Events.
12. Housekeeping.
    • Maintainers, commit message template, https://www.conventionalcommits.org

Meeting Minutes

• CSIT Meeting Minutes
• CSIT Meeting Minutes Archive 2020
• CSIT Meeting Minutes Archive 2019
• CSIT Meeting Minutes Archive 2018
• CSIT Meeting Minutes Archive 2017
• CSIT Meeting Minutes Archive 2016