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#fdio-vpp: fdio-vpp
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Meeting started by DaveBarach at 16:04:45 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-vpp/2020/fdio-vpp.2020-01-14-16.04.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* CSIT (Maciek)  (DaveBarach, 16:04:59)
  * move to Python 3.x completed  (mackonstan, 16:05:16)
  * VAT still used for fib scale tests and will be fixed in PAPI with
    Python3.x after CSIT-2001  (mackonstan, 16:06:47)
  * removed stale test code: HoneyComb, NSH_SFC, DMM, TLDK  (mackonstan,
    16:07:10)
  * some highlights of work done and in CSIT production  (mackonstan,
    16:07:23)
  * added per packet latency measurements resolution using TRex plus
    HDRhistogram  (mackonstan, 16:07:32)
  * added IPv4 and IPv6 FIB scale tests with random flows  (mackonstan,
    16:07:59)
  * added 100GE MLX5 NICs tests using suite generator so all tests are
    now supported, waiting for performance optimized rdma-core driver
    from Benoit, no pressure, to properly benchmark 100GE  (mackonstan,
    16:08:10)
  * number of other items progressed towards closure and ship for
    CSIT-2001 release  (mackonstan, 16:08:31)
  * CSIT-2001 plan tracked on wiki, will be updated with the latest
    status before CSIT call tomorrow  (mackonstan, 16:08:39)
  * LINK: https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2001_plan  (mackonstan,
    16:08:47)
  * tomorrow pulling CSIT-2001 branch from master, per rc1 milestone
    (aligned with VPP project timetable)  (mackonstan, 16:08:56)

* release management  (DaveBarach, 16:10:24)
  * 20.01 on schedule, RC1 throttle pull tomorrow  (DaveBarach,
    16:10:42)
  * 19.08.2 planned after 20.01 release  (DaveBarach, 16:11:26)
  * planning to put csit trending job in place  (DaveBarach, 16:11:40)
  * ACTION: remove 19.04 from agenda  (DaveBarach, 16:12:02)
  * one more update from CSIT  (mackonstan, 16:16:58)
  * Upgrade from from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kernel 4.15.0-66 to Ubuntu 18.04
    LTS kernel 4.15.0-72, introduced Xeon Processors’ ucode update
    increasing coverage to known (but not all announced)
    meltdown-spectre vulnerabilities (CSIT code is tracking those by
    executing spectre-meltdown-checker as part of the test suite).
    Skylake impact at 2-3%, Cascadelake impact at >30% !  (mackonstan,
    16:17:32)
  * Note that FEATURE.yaml files are published through fd.io, so please
    look at spelling, etc.  (DaveBarach, 16:20:22)

* Host Stack (Florin)  (DaveBarach, 16:23:26)
  * TCP port reuse supported for connections in TIMEDWAIT state
    (DaveBarach, 16:24:03)
  * a bunch of small fixes  (DaveBarach, 16:24:27)
  * Coming Soon: major refactor of shared-memory FIFOs.  (DaveBarach,
    16:24:51)
  * will not ship in 20.01  (DaveBarach, 16:25:41)
  * goal: to improve memory-scaling  (DaveBarach, 16:27:23)

* Documentation (John D)  (DaveBarach, 16:28:17)
  * whitepaper page  (DaveBarach, 16:28:24)



Meeting ended at 16:31:24 UTC.



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