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#fdio-meeting: FD.io CSIT Project Meeting
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Meeting started by mackonstan at 13:59:09 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-meeting/2022/fd_io_csit_project_meeting/fdio-meeting-fd_io_csit_project_meeting.2022-04-13-13.59.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* mackonstan  (mackonstan, 13:59:17)
* Vratko Polak.  (vrpolak, 13:59:48)
* Tibor Frank  (tifrank, 14:00:36)
* Agenda bashing  (mackonstan, 14:00:58)

* Inputs from projects - VPP  (mackonstan, 14:03:03)
  * Maciek, interesting discussion on VPP call yesterday  (mackonstan,
    14:06:59)
  *   (viliamluc, 14:07:10)
  * Maciek, I provided readout about csit-2202 failures, Vratko provided
    readout about regressions  (mackonstan, 14:07:44)
  * Dave, a long ranging discussion about amount of performance centric
    contributions and CSIT benchmarking data  (mackonstan, 14:13:53)
  * Dave Wallace  (dwallacelf, 14:14:08)
  * Vratko, started discussing regressions, but didn't not get to any
    concrete followups (except the "mem copy" improvement impacting
    tests) (Vratko to provide jira reference)  (mackonstan, 14:19:53)
  * Dave, recommend we keep performance as a standing topic for vpp
    calls  (mackonstan, 14:20:27)

* Inputs from projects - TSC  (mackonstan, 14:21:11)
  * Dave, working with Casey, Vanessa (and Andy G) re AWS usage and cost
    and billing  (mackonstan, 14:21:42)
  * Dave, proposing to have budget readouts quarterly  (mackonstan,
    14:22:55)
  * LINK: https://jira.fd.io/browse/CSIT-1815  <-- The Jira reference.
    (vrpolak, 14:23:04)
  * Dave, added list of events with LFN presence  (mackonstan, 14:23:36)
  * Maciek - **vppcfg** new project proposal - readout to CSIT on 27-Apr
    (mackonstan, 14:25:39)
  * LINK: https://wiki.fd.io/view/Project_Proposals/vppcfg  (mackonstan,
    14:25:57)

* New or being refactored tests  (mackonstan, 14:27:10)
  * E810 flow "offload" tests - need Fan to provide update  (mackonstan,
    14:27:47)
  * Juraj Linkeš  (jlinkes, 14:28:17)
  * Scale tests revisited - Vratko, we need to discuss options first,
    before setting to code the prototype  (mackonstan, 14:28:47)
  * Vratko, adding different frame sizes support for TRex ASTF tests
    (mackonstan, 14:29:52)
  * LINK: https://lists.fd.io/g/csit-dev/message/4482  (mackonstan,
    14:30:08)

* VPP hot items  (mackonstan, 14:30:58)
  * VPP MTU handling, Vratko, no updates.  (mackonstan, 14:31:10)

* CSIT hot items  (mackonstan, 14:31:20)
  * re Spectre-BHB security vulnerability, Maciek  (mackonstan,
    14:32:00)
  * Maciek, no update from Intel  (mackonstan, 14:32:13)
  * Juraj, no update from Arm  (mackonstan, 14:32:22)
  * Keesang, AMD published recommendation, Keesang will update the
    reference list with AMD specific info in fd.io gerrit  (mackonstan,
    14:34:05)

* Releases - CSIT-2206  (mackonstan, 14:34:42)
  * Andrew, from vpp side note stats segment refactor  (mackonstan,
    14:35:42)
  * see patch 66c85838  (mackonstan, 14:36:26)
  * Maciek, Vratko - bumping dpdk to v22.03 already in vpp master
    (mackonstan, 14:37:00)
  * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/q/topic:%22dpdk_22_03-bump%22  <-- 3
    patches doing the DPDK version bump, merged to VPP master (not
    stable/2202).  (vrpolak, 14:38:44)

* Physical Infrastructure  (mackonstan, 14:40:43)
  * Maciek, Juraj, 3n-alt numbers are available now, 11 Mpps per core
    for ip4-base  (mackonstan, 14:42:29)
  * LINK: 35640: stats: convert error counters to normal counters |
    https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/35640  (vrpolak, 14:43:50)
  * Maciek, Peter, looking at optimising space in existing racks and
    considering removal of 2n-skx testbeds to make space for new 3n-snr
    and more icx ones.  (mackonstan, 14:45:36)
  * Maciek, Peter, we should do our best to avoid putting fat 4RU
    servers in the racks ... if it's at all possible  (mackonstan,
    14:46:22)
  * Keesang, AMD, following up with Peter re BIOS settings.
    (mackonstan, 14:49:26)
  * Keesang, AMD, requesting again pointers for vpp performance tests -
    settings, methodology, results - so that AMD team can review it and
    provide suggestions.  (mackonstan, 14:53:14)
  * Maciek, will provide the pointers  (mackonstan, 14:55:51)
  * Maciek, Keesang, Peter, schedule a dedicated slot for AMD
    performance results review - FD.io CSIT labs vs. AMD CSIT labs
    (mackonstan, 15:00:07)
  * Keesang, will ask the AMD team to join the CSIT call next week
    (mackonstan, 15:02:17)

* Trending  (mackonstan, 15:02:34)
  * Dave, would like to follow up on request to add hoststack tests to
    trending  (mackonstan, 15:02:47)
  * Tibor, will work on it  (mackonstan, 15:02:56)



Meeting ended at 15:03:33 UTC.



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