[Starlingx-discuss] Minutes: StarlingX Networking Meeting - 03/19

Khalil, Ghada Ghada.Khalil at windriver.com
Thu Mar 19 22:29:39 UTC 2020


Meeting minutes/agenda are captured at: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/stx-networking 

- Attendees: Ghada Khalil, Joseph Richard, Steve Webster, Chris Winnicki, Yi Wang, Alexandru Dimofte, Cosmin Albescu, Mihal-Laurentiu Trica, Nicolae Jascanu

- Steve Webster has taken on the role of networking PL. He will chair the meetings moving forward.

stx.4.0 Features
- TSN support in kata container
        - Question:  Is there any code for this? or just a procedure?
              - As per Yi, the kernel will need be upgraded in the kata container. At a minimum, the 4.20 kernel is needed. Currently, the kata runtime in stx uses a 4.18 or 4.19 kernel.
        - kata upstream (currently alpha release) is now using a 5.x kernel
              - Not sure when this release of kata will be officially available
              - Ghada will check w/ Yong if we can get schedule information
        - As per Steve, he expects stx will need to build a custom kata runtime to pick up additional drivers
              - Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1867927 
        - Yi is currently setting up a TSN network
              - First step is to setup a generic Ubunutu node w/ a TSN switch
              - Once that is working, will proceed to setup a StarlingX node.
              - Yi will be working closely with Shuicheng to coordinate efforts on kata upgrade.
        - Will target code merge (feature ready for test) by milestone-3 (May 15)
        - Test Status
              - The plan is to test Kata containers first, then test TSN after.
              - The test team in Romainia is ordering Extreme Network switches. Nick will verify if they have TSN capabilities.
- IPv6 PXE boot network support
        - Kunpeng is investigating. He's sent some questions to the stx mailing list. Joseph is helping with responses.
        - Feature plan / timing: TBD

- Test Update
        - Received some servers in Galati and will start setup.
        - Right now, test activities rely on the infrastructure in Mexico

stx.4.0 Bugs
- Total: 5
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1867927  - Kata container runtime does not include support for SR-IOV devices
        - New. Assigned to Shuicheng as he is the prime for the kata container feature
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1866230  - Tracebacks related to LLPD neighbor (INSERT INTO lldp_tlvs) filling sysinv.log
        - New, Assigned to Thomas. This is a simple fix to avoid a sysinv exception in the lldp tlv is too long.
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1862651  -- IPv6 DC: 100.113 alarm "'DATA-NETWORK0' interface failed" raised at both system controller and subclouds after installation
        - No update. Still not assigned. Issue appears to be related to having multiple data ports.
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1850438  -- The sriov device plugin pod may start before it's config manifest is written
        - No update: Still on hold. Intermittent happening at a much lower frequency. Agreed to keep as gating for stx.4.0 for now, but as a lower priority item
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1833463  -- armada-manifest upload failed when configuring bond with OVS container (vswitch-type=none)
        - No update. Action with Yong to re-assign. Work is related to openstack-helm
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1859641  - IPv6: stx-openstack app apply failed by time out waiting for the condition "grpc_status"
        - One fix merged. Zhipeng is making progress on the next issue related to rabbitmq

stx.3.0 Bugs
- Total: 1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/1821026   -- Containers:  Resolving hostname fails within nova containers leading to config_drive VM  migration failures
        - No Update. Work has not resumed

Low Priority Bugs
- Total: 6
-  2 bugs merged. 1 in progress (code review posted)



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