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#fdio-meeting: "FD.io CSIT Project Meeting"
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Meeting started by mackonstan at 15:01:35 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-meeting/2024/_fd_io_csit_project_meeting_/fdio-meeting-_fd_io_csit_project_meeting_.2024-02-14-15.01.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Agenda bashing  (mackonstan, 15:02:51)
  * Dave - would like to introduce Tom Jones who is working on VPP
    porting to FreeBSD  (mackonstan, 15:03:37)
  * Dave - VPP port to FreeBSD  (mackonstan, 15:04:09)

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

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

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

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

* HW accelerator - SPR DSA  (mackonstan, 15:12:24)
  * 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)
  * Spring 2024 LFN Developer and Testing Forum (In person)
    (dwallacelf, 15:13:18)
  * LINK:
    https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lfn-developer-testing-forum-north-america/
    (dwallacelf, 15:13:23)

* CSIT-2402 release  (mackonstan, 15:13:38)
  * Tibor - all rc1 done, and 2310 retest completed  (mackonstan,
    15:13:59)
  * Tibor - rc2 testing starting tomorrow or friday  (mackonstan,
    15:14:30)
  * one substantial regression affecting all AVF tests  (mackonstan,
    15:15:47)
  * from last week meeting notes:  (mackonstan, 15:16:02)
  * 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)
  * 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)
  * above patch is merged and responsible for regression  (mackonstan,
    15:17:14)
  * Vratko - there is a new patch correcting above by Vratko
    (mackonstan, 15:17:29)
  * VP's Active: 40291: buffers: bring back cache occupancy improvement
    | https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/40291  (mackonstan, 15:17:33)
  * Maciek - looks like 40291 got merged by Damjan, so we should have
    the regression corrected  (mackonstan, 15:18:44)

* Virtual Infrastructure, CI/CD  (mackonstan, 15:20:02)
  * 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)
  * Peter - this is applied everywhere.  (mackonstan, 15:24:43)

* VPP FreeBSD testing  (mackonstan, 15:27:19)
  * 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)
  * Tom - it's likely to be a month before discussing CI/CD
    (mackonstan, 15:29:04)
  * Dave, Maciek - all CSIT perf tests on pinned version of Ubuntu
    (mackonstan, 15:29:40)
  * Tom - preference for dedicated server platform, vs sharing with
    other OSes, as it will make things simpler  (mackonstan, 15:31:35)
  * Tom - min requirements are amd64 and NIC supported freebsd
    (mackonstan, 15:34:10)
  * Tom - correct s/NIC/dpdk-driver/  (mackonstan, 15:34:33)
  * 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.



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