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#fdio-vpp: fdio-vpp
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Meeting started by DaveBarach at 14:58:04 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-vpp/2021/fdio_vpp/fdio-vpp-fdio_vpp.2021-06-08-14.58.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Agenda Additions?  (DaveBarach, 15:03:01)

* CSIT (Vratko reporting)  (DaveBarach, 15:03:26)
  * finishing prep work for 21.06  (DaveBarach, 15:03:43)
  * still some issues, e.g. w/ memif tests  (DaveBarach, 15:03:58)
  * Damjan aware of one issue, will look into it  (DaveBarach, 15:04:14)
  * some minor issues with fixes in pipeline  (DaveBarach, 15:04:55)
  * occasional failures (1 in 100) without any clear pattern
    (DaveBarach, 15:05:12)
  * one annoying scenario: PAPI unresponsive, vpp not crashing hence no
    core file  (DaveBarach, 15:06:17)
  * DaveW and Florin got one corefile from iperf + LDP  (DaveBarach,
    15:07:32)
  * suspect binary API mmap address conflict with iperf process
    (DaveBarach, 15:09:01)
  * changed number of RX queues - one queue per worker. Needed to
    increase number of mbufs  (DaveBarach, 15:11:20)

* Host Stack (Florin)  (DaveBarach, 15:13:26)
  * close to release, doing cleanup/bugfixes  (DaveBarach, 15:13:51)
  * session layer polling on main thread to improve active-open
    performance  (DaveBarach, 15:14:19)
  * don't keep polling indefinitely  (DaveBarach, 15:14:45)
  * better tracking of half-open sessions  (DaveBarach, 15:14:57)
  * quic needs a bit of work to clean up half-open sessions
    (DaveBarach, 15:15:12)
  * fixed and arm-specific memory ordering issue. Specific to our CI
    infra: ThunderX2  (DaveBarach, 15:15:47)
  * affected tests: iperf cut-throughy  (DaveBarach, 15:16:21)
  * vcl cut-through performance improvements, e.g. with libev
    (DaveBarach, 15:16:41)
  * TLS, DTLS memory pressure hardening  (DaveBarach, 15:17:17)

* Documentation  (DaveBarach, 15:17:42)
  * dave W did some doc cleanups  (DaveBarach, 15:17:55)
  * struggling to put together a cleanup plan  (DaveBarach, 15:18:13)
  * need to move docs to readthedocs (Nexus retirement)  (DaveBarach,
    15:18:29)

* Release Managment (Andrew, DaveW)  (DaveBarach, 15:19:11)
  * new requirement to do 21.01.1, to generate artifacts  (DaveBarach,
    15:19:44)
  * to update csit report  (DaveBarach, 15:19:50)
  * As people cherry-pick for 21.06, consider also cherry-picking for
    21.01.1  (DaveBarach, 15:20:16)
  * please get cherry-picks in... Now...  (DaveBarach, 15:21:09)
  * RC2 next Weds, no need to hold for memif fix...  (DaveBarach,
    15:22:00)

* Infra Status (DaveW)  (DaveBarach, 15:25:03)
  * lots of work / improvements  (DaveBarach, 15:25:17)
  * vexxhost data center move: thanks to Peter Mikus / Barret @ vexxhost
    (DaveBarach, 15:25:41)
  * no outages at all..!  (DaveBarach, 15:25:54)
  * all of the hosts now run Ubuntu 20.04  (DaveBarach, 15:26:19)
  * plan in 21.06 to retire old hardware (Haswell)  (DaveBarach,
    15:26:53)
  * addressed "glt clone" / related failures  (DaveBarach, 15:27:21)
  * simplified the communications between components.  (DaveBarach,
    15:27:44)
  * git clone failures reduced to O(3/week), removed Naginator (again)
    (DaveBarach, 15:28:03)
  * additional change after 21.06: move ingress / Jenkins openstack
    instances from old data center to new data center  (DaveBarach,
    15:28:45)
  * series of CI job failures not related to patch, e.g. vcl vpp
    cut-through tests  (DaveBarach, 15:29:30)
  * root cause of i40e issues: using old drivers...  (DaveBarach,
    15:30:12)
  * chasing a couple of patch-unrelated issues w/ stats segment
    (DaveBarach, 15:31:07)
  * continuing to work on using Amazon S3 logging to reduce costs
    (DaveBarach, 15:31:46)
  * damjan: kudos to the team for huge improvements in CI infra
    stability  (DaveBarach, 15:32:35)
  * continuing to update docker images to eliminate repeated package
    downloads  (DaveBarach, 15:33:16)
  * using ccache to improve build times  (DaveBarach, 15:33:37)
  * Centos-8 is very old, propose to remove jobs from CI from master
    (DaveBarach, 15:34:02)
  * unless someone steps up to fix RPM builds, lets remove them. No
    support on the horizon from Red Hat. CentOS 8 is EOL at the end of
    the year, etc.  (DaveBarach, 15:35:05)
  * Matt Smith: Netgate currently uses CentOS-8, in the process of
    switching to Ubuntu  (DaveBarach, 15:35:55)
  * dwallace: no need to remove build infra, but the verify jobs need to
    go  (DaveBarach, 15:36:47)
  * ACTION: Matt Smith to discuss removal w/ colleagues  (DaveBarach,
    15:38:23)
  * Matt to advise by email  (DaveBarach, 15:38:54)
  * async crypto w/ worker threads seems to be completely broken
    (DaveBarach, 15:41:11)
  * patches coming soon. Fan is the right person to work with.
    (DaveBarach, 15:41:52)



Meeting ended at 15:42:47 UTC.



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