15:01:35 <mackonstan> #startmeeting "FD.io CSIT Project Meeting"
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15:02:43 <mackonstan> #chair dwallacelf jlinkes Kai17 vrpolak mackonstan tifrank
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15:02:43 <collab-meetbot> Current chairs: Kai17 dwallacelf jlinkes mackonstan tifrank vrpolak
15:02:51 <mackonstan> #topic Agenda bashing
15:03:37 <mackonstan> #info Dave - would like to introduce Tom Jones who is working on VPP porting to FreeBSD
15:04:09 <mackonstan> #info Dave - VPP port to FreeBSD
15:04:21 <mackonstan> #topic VPP update
15:04:45 <mackonstan> #info Dave - VPP rc2 is today
15:05:08 <mackonstan> #info Andrew - vpp rc2 building now, only one last minute fix from Florin
15:05:49 <mackonstan> #info Tom - status of VPP on FreeBSD - can fwd pkts using dpdk and netmap
15:06:01 <mackonstan> #info Tom - most plugins build
15:06:34 <mackonstan> #info Tom - queue of 90 changes for vpp, about 20 already merged
15:06:54 <mackonstan> #topic TSC update
15:07:56 <mackonstan> #info Dave - biggest thing - lfn dev&test event in-person May 2-3 in San Jose
15:08:21 <mackonstan> #info Dave - a new $100 registration fee
15:09:49 <mackonstan> #info Dave - need to get moving on the physical installation earmarked for this cal year deployment
15:11:23 <mackonstan> #topic HW accelerator - SPR QAT2.0
15:11:55 <mackonstan> #info Peter - quite some progress - on QAT - working on some patches with Intel dev
15:12:05 <mackonstan> #topic HW accelerator - SNR QAT2.0
15:12:14 <mackonstan> #info Peter - same status as for SPR
15:12:24 <mackonstan> #topic HW accelerator - SPR DSA
15:13:12 <mackonstan> #info Peter, Maciek - memif tests running - need to get feedback from Kai & team if results meet expectations, esp. when compared to non-DSA accelerated results
15:13:18 <dwallacelf> #info Spring 2024 LFN Developer and Testing Forum (In person)
15:13:23 <dwallacelf> #link https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lfn-developer-testing-forum-north-america/
15:13:38 <mackonstan> #topic CSIT-2402 release
15:13:59 <mackonstan> #info Tibor - all rc1 done, and 2310 retest completed
15:14:30 <mackonstan> #info Tibor - rc2 testing starting tomorrow or friday
15:15:47 <mackonstan> #info one substantial regression affecting all AVF tests
15:16:02 <mackonstan> #info from last week meeting notes:
15:16:05 <mackonstan> #info 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)
15:16:23 <mackonstan> #info 40219: buffers: add compile-time option to set buffer alignment | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/40219 (mackonstan, 15:26:30)
15:17:14 <mackonstan> #info above patch is merged and responsible for regression
15:17:29 <mackonstan> #info Vratko - there is a new patch correcting above by Vratko
15:17:33 <mackonstan> #info VP's Active: 40291: buffers: bring back cache occupancy improvement | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/40291
15:18:44 <mackonstan> #info Maciek - looks like 40291 got merged by Damjan, so we should have the regression corrected
15:20:02 <mackonstan> #topic Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD
15:24:35 <mackonstan> #info 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.
15:24:43 <mackonstan> #info Peter - this is applied everywhere.
15:27:19 <mackonstan> #topic VPP FreeBSD testing
15:28:07 <mackonstan> #info Tom - there is still some work to be done before all changes trickle through into VPP before CI/CD perf tests can be visited
15:29:04 <mackonstan> #info Tom - it's likely to be a month before discussing CI/CD
15:29:40 <mackonstan> #info Dave, Maciek - all CSIT perf tests on pinned version of Ubuntu
15:31:35 <mackonstan> #info Tom - preference for dedicated server platform, vs sharing with other OSes, as it will make things simpler
15:34:10 <mackonstan> #info Tom - min requirements are amd64 and NIC supported freebsd
15:34:33 <mackonstan> #info Tom - correct s/NIC/dpdk-driver/
15:35:04 <mackonstan> #info Dave, Maciek - consider using the clx servers to be decomissioned this year as a potential target platforms for vpp freebsd
15:35:18 <mackonstan> #endmeeting