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#opnfv-vswitchperf: vswitchperf
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Meeting started by SRao at 14:59:37 UTC.  The full logs are available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/opnfv-vswitchperf/2018/opnfv-vswitchperf.2018-10-10-14.59.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Development Update  (SRao, 15:01:35)
  * Al Morton  (acm, 15:04:26)
  * We closed the patch on matplotlib - version update.  (SRao,
    15:05:00)
  * @Sridhar yet to submit a patch on histogram.  (SRao, 15:06:14)

* Intern Update  (SRao, 15:07:30)
  * ACTION: acm to help akanksha1702 get access to Intel Pod12 on Pharos
    - need to create a JIRA ticket.  (acm, 15:17:07)
  * progress on vsperf-container and results-container.  (SRao,
    15:20:09)
  * ACTION: akanksha request helpdesk for contributing to vsperf.
    (SRao, 15:20:55)
  * ACTION: sridhar share information on how to submit patches to
    vsperf.  (SRao, 15:21:15)
  * intern updates:
    https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/vsperf/Intern+Project%3A+VSPERF+Automated+Deployment+and+Results+Management
    (SRao, 15:22:25)

* VLOOP-VNF  (SRao, 15:22:46)
  * Christian: ubuntu image may not be tuned  (SRao, 15:24:06)
  * The image created with fedora - size is huge.  (SRao, 15:24:33)
  * Parameters to consider - VCPUs (default 2, better to assign more),
    testpmd-queues, cpu-pinning (isolcpus), IRQ-pinning (tuna tool),
    cpu-affinity (apart from isolcpus),  (SRao, 15:32:32)
  * Christian will follow this up - it may take few weeks.  (SRao,
    15:34:32)
  * Run test with 1500bytes, check if any loss at testpmd (guest), if
    yes, there is some issue with the guest.  (SRao, 15:36:26)
  * Christian to show the approach he take in debugging the guest.
    (SRao, 15:38:34)

* Test-Results  (SRao, 15:43:17)
  * Tests - SRIOV (ubuntu 14.04 VNF): results similar to phy2phy. 5Gb/s.
    T-Rex.  (SRao, 15:44:53)
  * tested with netEm [TC: 100Mb/s, Egress]. Came across -ve loss and
    -ve loss %ge.  (SRao, 15:46:56)
  * This behavior (-ve values) around 75 to 90mb/s range.  (SRao,
    15:47:36)
  * Trex Stateful tutorial:
    https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/trex/doc/trex_control_plane_peek.html
    (SRao, 15:49:41)
  * ACTION: acm to create wiki on edge-computing characterization,
    traditional-tools, TGens, TC, etc.  (SRao, 15:52:32)

* OVS-VANILLA  (SRao, 15:57:32)
  * currently ovs_vanilla is not built.  (SRao, 15:58:42)
  * we have to either (a) change the "default" path for OVS_Vanilla. (b)
    Build ovs-vanilla also by default  (SRao, 15:59:11)
  * Documentation update is needed.  (SRao, 16:00:25)



Meeting ended at 16:00:46 UTC.



Action items, by person
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* acm
  * acm to help akanksha1702 get access to Intel Pod12 on Pharos - need
    to create a JIRA ticket.
  * acm to create wiki on edge-computing characterization,
    traditional-tools, TGens, TC, etc.
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * akanksha request helpdesk for contributing to vsperf.
  * sridhar share information on how to submit patches to vsperf.



People present (lines said)
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* SRao (27)
* collabot (3)
* acm (2)



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