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#fdio-vpp: vpp Weekly Meeting
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Meeting started by edwarnicke at 16:00:37 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-vpp/2016/fdio-vpp.2016-02-23-16.00.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* Agenda  (edwarnicke, 16:02:54)
  * LINK: https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/Meeting#Agenda <- Agenda link
    (edwarnicke, 16:02:59)

* Automated Functional / Performance Test update  (edwarnicke, 16:06:09)
  * mackonstan1 introduces himself  (edwarnicke, 16:06:18)
  * Functional Regression test overview  (edwarnicke, 16:08:05)
  * By end of this week, every vpp merge will run a regression
    (edwarnicke, 16:10:11)
  * Will also plug into verify  (edwarnicke, 16:10:18)
  * LINK: https://jenkins.fd.io/view/csit/job/csit-vpp-functional-virl/
    <- CSIT tests  (edwarnicke, 16:12:37)
  * LINK: test suites:
    https://jenkins.fd.io/view/csit/job/csit-vpp-functional-virl/68/robot/
    (edwarnicke, 16:13:47)
  * Performance Test overview  (edwarnicke, 16:14:01)
  * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=csit.git;a=summary <- CSIT
    repo  (edwarnicke, 16:16:58)
  * question about dpdk integration  (edwarnicke, 16:18:20)
  * DaveBarach suggested just push a patch pointing to a different DPDK
    tarball, and the verify job should check it  (edwarnicke, 16:18:38)
  * LINK: https://lists.fd.io/mailman/listinfo/csit-dev <- csit mailer
    (edwarnicke, 16:20:56)

* Open Items for Review  (edwarnicke, 16:21:10)
  * any progress on process for upstreaming an rpm  (edwarnicke,
    16:21:26)
  * afredette has talked to dfarrel07 from RH and he has expressed
    interest there  (edwarnicke, 16:21:45)
  * process for upstreaming Ubuntu debian packaging  (edwarnicke,
    16:22:46)
  * request for volunteers for netlink project  (edwarnicke, 16:25:16)
  * LINK: https://nexus.fd.io/#nexus-search;quick~vpp <- nexus.fd.io
    with vpp deb pkgs - currently csit functional regression executed
    against build 1.0.0-185~gca0f3b3  (mackonstan1, 16:26:21)
  * request for states in jira: INFO, JUNK, CLOSED, etc  (edwarnicke,
    16:26:50)
  * ACTION: DaveBarach to email list about Jira states  (edwarnicke,
    16:27:08)
  * LINK: https://jenkins.fd.io/view/vpp/job/vpp-merge/174/console <-
    first priority for csit job triggers are vpp-merge jobs, here is the
    latest  (mackonstan1, 16:28:00)
  * LINK:
    https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver070/defining-status-field-values-749382903.html
    <- Bug Status can be done  (edwarnicke, 16:28:15)

* Staticly linking vpp executable against network stack  (edwarnicke,
  16:28:43)
  * LINK: https://jenkins.fd.io/view/vpp/job/vpp-verify/ <- we are then
    looking to plug into vpp-verify jobs  (mackonstan1, 16:28:51)
  * LINK: https://jenkins.fd.io/view/csit/job/csit-vpp-functional-virl/
    <- here latest csit functiona tests executed on LF hosted VIRL
    3-node topology  (mackonstan1, 16:30:16)
  * static linking of network stack under consideration, would have to
    be tested heavily to make that switch  (edwarnicke, 16:30:52)
  * execution time of csit-vpp-functional-virl tests - currently <
    3.5min  (mackonstan1, 16:31:18)

* Code Base Activity report  (edwarnicke, 16:39:06)
  * Patch Cisco VIC (enic) PMD TX path  (edwarnicke, 16:42:13)
  * Add MTU info to binary API (sw_interface_dump)  (edwarnicke,
    16:42:23)
  * Fix vpp handling of DPDK-2.2.0 buffer metadata bits [ip6 pkts ending
    up in ip4 path]  (edwarnicke, 16:42:32)
  * Per-interface, per address-family fast packet whitelist / blacklist
    (edwarnicke, 16:42:44)
  * Jumbo frame support for non-dpdk (vhost) interfaces  (edwarnicke,
    16:42:55)
  * Show dpdk EAL arguments in "show version verbose"  (edwarnicke,
    16:43:05)

* Consumability  (edwarnicke, 16:43:12)
  * DPDK tarball download failures  (edwarnicke, 16:43:30)
  * tfherbert is seeing it too  (edwarnicke, 16:43:40)
  * suggestion to put dpdk tarball in git repo  (edwarnicke, 16:45:13)
  * ACTION: edwarnicke to see about mirroring dpdk tarball to fd.io
    nexus server  (edwarnicke, 16:45:32)
  * suggestion made to clone dpdk and set tag to desired release
    (edwarnicke, 16:46:31)
  * DaveBarach suggested possibly retry logic for downloading dpdk
    tarball  (edwarnicke, 16:46:47)
  * ACTION: jmcnamara will look into DPDK download site  (edwarnicke,
    16:48:02)
  * idea of netlink agent project is to provide a netlink agent so that
    existing user space tools via a LDPRELOAD hack can talk to vpp
    (edwarnicke, 16:53:38)



Meeting ended at 16:54:21 UTC.



Action items, by person
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* DaveBarach
  * DaveBarach to email list about Jira states
* edwarnicke
  * edwarnicke to see about mirroring dpdk tarball to fd.io nexus server
* jmcnamara
  * jmcnamara will look into DPDK download site



People present (lines said)
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* edwarnicke (61)
* collabot` (8)
* ashyoung_ (6)
* mackonstan1 (6)
* tfherbert (3)
* keith_wiles (3)
* jmcnamara (2)
* KeithWiles (0)
* afredette (0)
* dmarion (0)
* DaveBarach (0)



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