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#fdio-vpp: fdio-vpp
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Meeting started by DaveBarach at 15:57:24 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-vpp/2020/fdio_vpp/fdio-vpp-fdio_vpp.2020-12-08-15.57.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* CSIT (Maciek Reporting)  (DaveBarach, 16:02:35)
  * Complete set of nat44 results published in maintenance version of
    CSIT-2009 report last week  (mackonstan, 16:02:45)
  * Includes stateless benchmarks: Det BiDir, ED UniDir  (mackonstan,
    16:03:03)
  * Includes stateful benchmarks: ED UDP CPS, ED UDP PPS, ED TCP CPS, ED
    TCP PPS  (mackonstan, 16:03:10)
  * Methodology description see link below  (mackonstan, 16:04:57)
  * LINK:
    https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls2009/report/introduction/methodology_nat44.html
    (mackonstan, 16:05:03)
  * Benchmark graphs see link below  (mackonstan, 16:05:10)
  * LINK:
    https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls2009/report/vpp_performance_tests/packet_throughput_graphs/nat44.html
    (mackonstan, 16:05:15)
  * Finally, will be publishing first experimental set of AMD zen2
    benchmarks tomorrow/day after  (mackonstan, 16:06:50)
  * Preview of AMD data in the draft report version in master, see link
    below  (mackonstan, 16:07:00)
  * LINK:
    https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/vpp_performance_tests/packet_throughput_graphs/ip4.html
    (mackonstan, 16:07:09)
  * Note that rls2009 report will only publish base frequency data, no
    turbo numbers, as that how it is done for all other platforms
    (mackonstan, 16:07:21)
  * Many other things  updates and goodies coming in 2101, see CSIT 2101
    wiki for details as they are being filled in  (mackonstan, 16:08:06)

* (Host Stack, Florin)  (DaveBarach, 16:09:34)
  * small updates  (DaveBarach, 16:09:40)
  * LINK: https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2101_plan  (mackonstan,
    16:09:49)
  * session layer removed support for binary API connections
    (DaveBarach, 16:09:58)
  * over shared memory.  (DaveBarach, 16:10:07)
  * scheduler improvements, to coalesce pkts (per session)  (DaveBarach,
    16:10:40)
  * TCP improvements to segment pushing  (DaveBarach, 16:10:55)
  * Codenomicon tests run pre-release: 70-80 "failures" out of 1.2M
    (DaveBarach, 16:11:46)
  * ssvm merged some mutex improvements  (DaveBarach, 16:12:10)
  * DTLS draft work, will publish after 21.01  (DaveBarach, 16:12:51)
  * DTLS = "tls for UDP"  (DaveBarach, 16:13:20)

* (Documentation, Ole)  (DaveBarach, 16:18:03)
  * no updates, ole driving, try not to hit phone pole!  (DaveBarach,
    16:18:33)

* Release Management (Andrew)  (DaveBarach, 16:19:01)
  * tomorrow is F0 for 21.01  (DaveBarach, 16:19:14)
  * hold off risky commits until we pull the release branch
    (DaveBarach, 16:19:41)
  * RC1 pull in one week  (DaveBarach, 16:20:01)
  * AGREED: let's not bother with F0 anymore  (DaveBarach, 16:20:20)
  * give the API change process, F0 isn't useful anymore  (DaveBarach,
    16:21:00)
  * no updates for 20.09, 19.08  (DaveBarach, 16:21:46)
  * plan to remove the 19.08 CI jobs in January.  (DaveBarach, 16:22:09)
  * Note that the release after 21.01 will be 21.06  (DaveBarach,
    16:22:57)

* (Infra, Dave Wallace)  (DaveBarach, 16:23:04)
  * "Jenkins sucks"  (DaveBarach, 16:23:10)
  * restarted Jenkins yesterday to unconstipate it  (DaveBarach,
    16:23:35)
  * list of 20+ plugins which arent doing anything, to remove
    (DaveBarach, 16:24:18)
  * another Jenkins restart later today  (DaveBarach, 16:24:28)
  * another patch in flight to fix CentOS issues. "PowerTools" repo name
    changed to "powertools."  (DaveBarach, 16:25:06)
  * Added non-voting address sanitizer job  (DaveBarach, 16:26:51)
  * improved capture / placement of failed unittest logs  (DaveBarach,
    16:28:29)
  * (from Ray) Red Hat plans to EOL CentOS as it is, replace with
    something like Red Hat REL  (DaveBarach, 16:29:47)
  * Debian 9 status: proposal to remove from 21.01 release  (DaveBarach,
    16:30:41)
  * Cisco internal customer apparently needs to move to Debian 10.
    (DaveBarach, 16:31:17)
  * patch in progress to make vppctl statically-linked  (DaveBarach,
    16:32:35)
  * Plan to move to Ubuntu 20.04 as our primary test distro. Csit runs
    on 18.04, so some effort required  (DaveBarach, 16:35:41)
  * can start as soon as the 21.01 release throttle is pulled
    (DaveBarach, 16:36:02)

* Issues  (DaveBarach, 16:38:35)
  * Coverity Cleanup next week  (DaveBarach, 16:39:20)
  * Chris H: frame-queue fixes please review patch  (DaveBarach,
    16:40:29)
  * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/28980  (chopps, 16:40:44)
  * LINK: https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/28980  (dwallacelf, 16:41:38)
  * ACTION: Dave B to review 28980  (DaveBarach, 16:42:48)
  * new native asm crypto w/ QAT supposedly 30% faster than dpdk ipsec
    code  (DaveBarach, 16:48:10)



Meeting ended at 16:50:12 UTC.



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