#fdio-meeting: "FD.io CSIT Project Meeting"

Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:01:35 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Agenda bashing (mackonstan, 15:02:51)
    1. Dave - would like to introduce Tom Jones who is working on VPP porting to FreeBSD (mackonstan, 15:03:37)
    2. Dave - VPP port to FreeBSD (mackonstan, 15:04:09)

  2. VPP update (mackonstan, 15:04:21)
    1. Dave - VPP rc2 is today (mackonstan, 15:04:45)
    2. Andrew - vpp rc2 building now, only one last minute fix from Florin (mackonstan, 15:05:08)
    3. Tom - status of VPP on FreeBSD - can fwd pkts using dpdk and netmap (mackonstan, 15:05:49)
    4. Tom - most plugins build (mackonstan, 15:06:01)
    5. Tom - queue of 90 changes for vpp, about 20 already merged (mackonstan, 15:06:34)

  3. TSC update (mackonstan, 15:06:54)
    1. Dave - biggest thing - lfn dev&test event in-person May 2-3 in San Jose (mackonstan, 15:07:56)
    2. Dave - a new $100 registration fee (mackonstan, 15:08:21)
    3. Dave - need to get moving on the physical installation earmarked for this cal year deployment (mackonstan, 15:09:49)

  4. HW accelerator - SPR QAT2.0 (mackonstan, 15:11:23)
    1. Peter - quite some progress - on QAT - working on some patches with Intel dev (mackonstan, 15:11:55)

  5. HW accelerator - SNR QAT2.0 (mackonstan, 15:12:05)
    1. Peter - same status as for SPR (mackonstan, 15:12:14)

  6. HW accelerator - SPR DSA (mackonstan, 15:12:24)
    1. Peter, Maciek - memif tests running - need to get feedback from Kai & team if results meet expectations, esp. when compared to non-DSA accelerated results (mackonstan, 15:13:12)
    2. Spring 2024 LFN Developer and Testing Forum (In person) (dwallacelf, 15:13:18)
    3. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lfn-developer-testing-forum-north-america/ (dwallacelf, 15:13:23)

  7. CSIT-2402 release (mackonstan, 15:13:38)
    1. Tibor - all rc1 done, and 2310 retest completed (mackonstan, 15:13:59)
    2. Tibor - rc2 testing starting tomorrow or friday (mackonstan, 15:14:30)
    3. one substantial regression affecting all AVF tests (mackonstan, 15:15:47)
    4. from last week meeting notes: (mackonstan, 15:16:02)
    5. Vratko - looked at rc1 and retest results, mostly good, but one substantial regression (10-40%) on AVF on all Xeons and some other combinations (mackonstan, 15:24:39) (mackonstan, 15:16:05)
    6. 40219: buffers: add compile-time option to set buffer alignment | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/40219 (mackonstan, 15:26:30) (mackonstan, 15:16:23)
    7. above patch is merged and responsible for regression (mackonstan, 15:17:14)
    8. Vratko - there is a new patch correcting above by Vratko (mackonstan, 15:17:29)
    9. VP's Active: 40291: buffers: bring back cache occupancy improvement | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/40291 (mackonstan, 15:17:33)
    10. Maciek - looks like 40291 got merged by Damjan, so we should have the regression corrected (mackonstan, 15:18:44)

  8. Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD (mackonstan, 15:20:02)
    1. Dave - was t/shooting why caching didn't work for Docker images, found the root cause, related to "virtual-end" utility that predates python vend. (mackonstan, 15:24:35)
    2. Peter - this is applied everywhere. (mackonstan, 15:24:43)

  9. VPP FreeBSD testing (mackonstan, 15:27:19)
    1. Tom - there is still some work to be done before all changes trickle through into VPP before CI/CD perf tests can be visited (mackonstan, 15:28:07)
    2. Tom - it's likely to be a month before discussing CI/CD (mackonstan, 15:29:04)
    3. Dave, Maciek - all CSIT perf tests on pinned version of Ubuntu (mackonstan, 15:29:40)
    4. Tom - preference for dedicated server platform, vs sharing with other OSes, as it will make things simpler (mackonstan, 15:31:35)
    5. Tom - min requirements are amd64 and NIC supported freebsd (mackonstan, 15:34:10)
    6. Tom - correct s/NIC/dpdk-driver/ (mackonstan, 15:34:33)
    7. Dave, Maciek - consider using the clx servers to be decomissioned this year as a potential target platforms for vpp freebsd (mackonstan, 15:35:04)


Meeting ended at 15:35:18 UTC (full logs).

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