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#fdio-vpp: fd.io-vpp
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Meeting started by DaveBarach at 16:00:01 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-vpp/2019/fdio-vpp.2019-01-22-16.00.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* csit (Maciek reporting)  (DaveBarach, 16:01:59)
  * package name change(s) temporarily broke trending jobs  (DaveBarach,
    16:02:22)
  * patch to turn off VIRL jobs still pending  (DaveBarach, 16:02:37)
  * driver testing coming soon  (DaveBarach, 16:03:01)

* Honeycomb (Michal reporting)  (DaveBarach, 16:03:50)
  * jvpp packages unavailable  (DaveBarach, 16:04:26)
  * can generate via cmake / ninja  (DaveBarach, 16:05:36)
  * ACTION: dbarach to mail trishan about jvpp project resources e.g. on
    gerrit.fd.io  (DaveBarach, 16:11:04)
  * 19.01 HC code complete, start testing tomorrow  (DaveBarach,
    16:11:27)

* Host Stack (Florin)  (DaveBarach, 16:11:34)
  * 19.01 not much happening / fixes (tcp, VCL) pushed  (DaveBarach,
    16:11:59)
  * 19.04 make vcl and vcl session layer more reliable w/ forking apps
    (DaveBarach, 16:12:21)
  * added "VLS" layer, support sshd, nginx  (DaveBarach, 16:13:02)

* Documentation (John D)  (DaveBarach, 16:14:41)
  * Met w/ LF re: main landing page  (DaveBarach, 16:14:58)
  * mockups being shown internally, wider audience after LF internal
    review  (DaveBarach, 16:15:26)
  * ACTION: dbarach to ping chris luke about Coverity  (DaveBarach,
    16:19:00)

* Cross Compilation  (DaveBarach, 16:21:17)
  * some packaging work left, but otherwise more or less done
    (DaveBarach, 16:21:38)
  * should be able to build arm packages on x86  (DaveBarach, 16:21:47)
  * on aarch64, multiple cache-line sizes  (DaveBarach, 16:22:12)

* Buffer Manager Rework (Damjan)  (DaveBarach, 16:25:20)
  * cleanup in progress: old features dating from pre-dpdk days
    (DaveBarach, 16:25:48)
  * main change in gerrit (not committed yet), major rework for NUMA
    awareness  (DaveBarach, 16:26:16)
  * want to unify buffer manager stats  (DaveBarach, 16:26:32)
  * should be fast enough to allocate single buffers, so we can stop
    making side-bet buffer caches  (DaveBarach, 16:27:47)
  * initialize buffer metadata at buffer free time, because the buffers
    are hot in the cache then.  (DaveBarach, 16:28:16)
  * do NOT memset vlib_buffer_t to zero, to avoid whacking the buffer
    pool index  (DaveBarach, 16:28:53)
  * change dpdk: use vpp buffer manager, add custom dpdk mempool
    calllbacks  (DaveBarach, 16:33:15)
  * ACTION: Shirshak to report on cache line size stragegy for arm
    packaging  (DaveBarach, 16:44:22)



Meeting ended at 16:44:50 UTC.



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