1 fdio_csit_dev_plan.txt - DRAFT
3 FD.io CSIT High-Level Development Plan
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6 Proposed Work Organisation
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9 * Each work area is covered by owners.
10 - Technical Lead (TL) - overall responsibility incl. design, detailed
11 work plan, DT coordination, managing dependencies.
12 - Development Team (DT) - doing work following the TL.
13 - Project Lead (PL) - involved in all work areas at higher level,
14 focusing on requirements definitions, design and work reviews,
16 - For work areas with large number of deliverables there could be
17 multiple TLs e.g. for operations, framework or test refactor.
18 - FD.io CSIT owners' initials listed with suffix strings:
19 "[TL;DT1..DTn;PL]", contact details at the end of this note.
21 * Actual work breakdown tracked in FD.io CSIT jira:
22 - Tasks tracked in Jira under CSIT Epics.
27 * Current release cycle:
28 - FD.io CSIT rls18.07, associated with VPP-18.07.
29 * Sub-sequent releases:
30 - FD.io CSIT rls18.10, rls1812, ..
31 - Work not completed fully in current release cycle marked as backlog
32 for follow-on release(s).
37 * Infrastructure, Framework, Tools
38 * New Skylake testbed infra to increase FD.io CSIT lab capacity.
40 * Introduce 2-node performance tests for new Skylake testbed infra.
42 * Productize duration aware multi-rate MLR search. [VP;PM,VP;MK]
43 * Improve continuous performance trending: anomaly detection tunings,
44 add dpdk. [TF;TF,VP;MK]
45 * Complete and phase into production continuous per VPP patch
46 performance tests. [PM;PM,TF,VP;MK]
47 * Implement proper per-packet latency measurements, reporting and
48 analytics with TRex HdrHistogram. [TF;PM,TF,VP;MK]
49 * Evolve presentation and analytics layer (PAL) addressing growing
50 volumes of test measurement and telemetry data. [TF;EK,PM,TF,VP;MK]
51 * Start migration from CSIT_VIRL to VPP_Path (make_test) and
52 VPP_Device integration tests. [JG;EK,JG,TF;MK]
53 * Enhance CSIT reports, trending pages, PAL backend and trending test
54 code addressing wider set of data plane workloads and automate
55 CI/CD trending communication to FD.io community. [TF;PM,TF,VP;MK]
56 * Automate VPP performance regression search. [TF;TF,VP;MK]
57 * Other refactor: VAT to PAPI, data driven tests, suite duration,
58 infra overhead. [VP;JG,PM,TF,VP;MK]
60 * Testing, Performance
61 * New tests: more TCP stack, SRv6, memif; AVF driver (no DPDK).
63 * VPP_Path: migration of P0 VIRL tests to VPP_make_test, followed by
64 qualification of VIRL P1, P2 tests; adding use case driven
66 * VPP_Device: new use cases per VPP_Device design note <add link>.
67 * VPP_Path_Device: continue to add relevant tests.
70 * FD.io Operations. [All]
71 * ARM, Atom servers. [?]
72 * API changes across VPP major versions. [?]
73 * Plugin dependencies. [?]
74 * DPDK driver dependencies. [?]
76 FD.io CSIT Contributors
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79 * JG - Jan Gelety <jgelety@cisco.com>, irc: jgelety.
80 * EK - Ed Kern <ejk@cisco.com>, irc: snergster.
81 * MK - Maciek Konstantynowicz <mkonstan@cisco.com>, irc: mackonstan.
82 * PM - Peter Mikus <pmikus@cisco.com>, irc: pmikus.
83 * TF - Tibor Frank <tifrank@cisco.com>, irc: tifrank.
84 * VP - Vratko Polak <vrpolak@cisco.com>, irc: vrpolak.