#fdio-meeting: vpp

Meeting started by dmarion at 15:03:47 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. mackonstan (mackonstan, 15:04:17)
    2. Dave Wallace (dwallacelf, 15:04:26)
    3. Physical infra updates (mackonstan, 15:04:37)
    4. New Intel Xeon ICX based testbeds - supermicro HW shipment (motherboard, chassis) delayed till Oct/Nov, other components are already onsite (mackonstan, 15:05:15)
    5. Trending updates (mackonstan, 15:05:29)
    6. Daily (MRR rapid-fire tests), weekly (NDRPDR proper perf) process: (mackonstan, 15:05:54)
    7. 1) nat44ed 16M sessions test, sessions not getting established in allotted time for some tests; (mackonstan, 15:06:09)
    8. 2) deterministic for specific (frame_size, core config): ipsec sw asyn tests, no traffic forwarded; (mackonstan, 15:06:19)
    9. Releases: CSIT-2106 report published mid-July includes Icelake results tested externally in Intel labs using CSIT; CSIT-2110 tracking on time (mackonstan, 15:07:08)
    10. CSIT-2110 release deliverables, see link (mackonstan, 15:07:16)
    11. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit2110_plan (mackonstan, 15:07:22)
    12. Virtual infra updates (mackonstan, 15:07:30)
    13. All FD.io systems are finally in a single DC location hosted by Vexxhost, incl. all used LF IT systems, all connectivity issues induced by WAN are (seemingly) behind us for good :) (mackonstan, 15:08:05)
    14. session layer - support for axx socket for application use (mackonstan, 15:09:38)
    15. TLS - refactored picoTLS relying on vpp crypto infra, performance looks really good, 15 Gbps with openssl, 18 Gbps with picoTLS, 1 connection 1 worker (mackonstan, 15:10:29)
    16. using sync crypto in all cases (mackonstan, 15:10:47)
    17. happy to discuss if testing with async crypto makes sense (mackonstan, 15:11:07)
    18. can now bootstrap hoststack with binary API, without touching VCL (mackonstan, 15:12:14)
    19. Damjan q: is there a need for vpp crypto infra to support for TLS key negotiation/handling etc, apart from the data channel supported today, and then support different crypto backends e.g. ipsecmb (mackonstan, 15:15:22)
    20. Florin a: it may improve sessions/sec, will need to check if picoTLS supports, (mackonstan, 15:17:08)
    21. Nathan: spent few hrs on polishing fd.io documentation, removing old/stale info a.o. (mackonstan, 15:18:53)
    22. Dave Wallace: similarly, updating the FD.io CI/infra related content; should be done before 21.10 branch is pulled (mackonstan, 15:20:05)
    23. Dave W: Peter Mikus from csit converted all CSIT docs to s3, available at usual links prefixed with "s3-" (mackonstan, 15:20:39)
    24. Dave W: for vpp, optimizing the way per release docs are generated, make test docs, doxygen, … (mackonstan, 15:21:58)
    25. 21.10 rc1 next week Wed 21-Sep (mackonstan, 15:22:50)
    26. vpp v21.01 completed, csit tests also done and published (mackonstan, 15:23:58)
    27. re v21.01, v21.06 rls's - currently nothing else planned (mackonstan, 15:24:42)
    28. coverity pages - still number of outstanding defects (mackonstan, 15:25:42)
    29. https://github.com/vpp-dev/vpp-coverity-report (mackonstan, 15:25:44)
    30. Andrew looking for feedback about the notification mechanism to use, attempts to date are not yielding desired effect, double digit of open defects (mackonstan, 15:26:33)
    31. Florin Q: asking about the process of removing deprecated APIs (mackonstan, 15:28:40)
    32. Andrew A: process not fully hashed out yet, at least 3mths(?) between marking API deprecated and removing it (mackonstan, 15:29:14)
    33. https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/ApiChangeProcess (dmarion, 15:32:29)
    34. https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/ApiChangeProcess (mackonstan, 15:32:56)
    35. done a lot and break a lot :) (mackonstan, 15:37:24)
    36. big thanks to all involved (mackonstan, 15:37:31)
    37. deployed jcasc - jenkins configuration as source code - system was broken for few days - but now can maintain majority of jenkins config thru git repo in ci-managment project, so huge improvement (mackonstan, 15:38:23)
    38. all HW infra now in one DC location YUL1 (mackonstan, 15:38:38)
    39. updated build discarder, all jenkins artefacts deleted after 30 days, all log archives in s3 (thx again to Peter Mikus for doing all of the integration for this) (mackonstan, 15:39:33)
    40. corrective note to hoststack update done by Florin: "added support for abstract sockets for app namespaces. Easier to use with containers" (mackonstan, 15:40:23)
    41. observed some git clone failures - result of interim w/a patch to avoid WAN WireGuard links - after revert all good again (mackonstan, 15:41:35)
    42. monitoring jenkins jobs daily - looking healthier than ever (mackonstan, 15:42:14)
    43. Maciek areas of investment under discussion: csit data backend, aws performance tests execution, more rack space (mackonstan, 15:51:33)
    44. Matthew: what about a newer ATOM processors, SnowRidge (mackonstan, 15:52:44)
    45. Damjan: problem is there are not many (none?) commercially available systems with SNR. aimed at mobility market, but nothing available from the open market. (mackonstan, 15:54:07)
    46. Maciek: putting a placeholder for this SnowRidge/SNR ask, in addition to some new Arm/Xeon systems (mackonstan, 15:54:52)


Meeting ended at 15:56:40 UTC (full logs).

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