#fdio-vpp: fdio vpp

Meeting started by DaveBarach at 16:00:16 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. CSIT Maciek reporting (DaveBarach, 16:01:15)
    1. release 18.01 ready to run tests, awaiting vpp release (tomorrow) (DaveBarach, 16:01:36)
    2. Maciek (mackonstan, 16:01:42)
    3. csit rls1801 on target and on time (mackonstan, 16:01:44)
    4. dry-runs have been successful (DaveBarach, 16:01:45)
    5. https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1801_plan (mackonstan, 16:01:53)
    6. new deliveries on CSIT wiki: srv6 perf tests, k8s memif extensions, (DaveBarach, 16:02:18)
    7. trex onboarding still in progress (DaveBarach, 16:02:26)
    8. added s/w crypto tests (DaveBarach, 16:02:35)
    9. rls1801 csit report target publish date 31-Jan (mackonstan, 16:02:39)
    10. reports expected ~1wk after 18.01 release artifacts available. 6-8 days to run tests (DaveBarach, 16:03:03)
    11. will re-run entire test suite again w/ linux kernel meltdown patches. Quick-and-dirty check says not much effect (DaveBarach, 16:03:40)
    12. spectre no idea when patches will be available (DaveBarach, 16:03:57)
    13. Ray asks who are you in touch with at Intel ref: meltdown, spectre isues (DaveBarach, 16:05:24)
    14. Ray confirms that CSIT is talking to the right people at Intel. (DaveBarach, 16:05:47)

  2. Maciek on Honeycomb (DaveBarach, 16:06:44)
    1. RC2 published last week (DaveBarach, 16:06:54)
    2. release expected next week (DaveBarach, 16:07:19)

  3. Host Stack (keith starting) (DaveBarach, 16:08:28)
    1. more event-logging in vppcom (DaveBarach, 16:08:44)
    2. Envoy: need to propose patches to the project to integrate w/ vppcom (DaveBarach, 16:09:19)
    3. Dave Wallace: LD_PRELOAD layer refactoring merged (DaveBarach, 16:10:15)
    4. looking at envoy integration (DaveBarach, 16:10:25)
    5. Florin: doing a bunch of refactoring, so we can work with both socket and shared-memory API message transport (DaveBarach, 16:11:43)
    6. can transition to shared memory infra / memfd segments from socket transport. To avoid mounting /dev/shm in containers. (DaveBarach, 16:12:29)
    7. session layer can now use memfd segments (DaveBarach, 16:12:55)

  4. aarch64/arm64 (Tina reporting) (DaveBarach, 16:16:52)
    1. some question about the number of aarch64 servers (DaveBarach, 16:17:17)
    2. gear arriving next week (DaveBarach, 16:17:29)
    3. (ThunderX) (DaveBarach, 16:17:40)
    4. Kubeproxy CSIT test failing (DaveBarach, 16:18:00)

  5. 18.01 (DaveBarach, 16:19:29)
    1. Dave Wallace: formal release is tomorrow! (DaveBarach, 16:19:44)
    2. no major outstanding issues (DaveBarach, 16:20:04)
    3. will try to post artifacts tomorrow (Weds) (DaveBarach, 16:20:50)

  6. 1gb hugepage support (DaveBarach, 16:21:44)
    1. damjan in transit pls engage with him via email to the vpp-dev@list.fd.io (DaveBarach, 16:23:18)
    2. 1gb hugepages potentially used to reduce restart time (DaveBarach, 16:24:24)
    3. only allocating 40mb of buffer memory by default, so why bother allocating 1g? (DaveBarach, 16:27:54)
    4. dpdk uses less than 2mb worth of hugetlb pages (DaveBarach, 16:28:52)

  7. Container POC (DaveBarach, 16:29:28)
    1. makefile patch (damjan, pls review) (DaveBarach, 16:29:59)
    2. 1200 builds, 10 errors, all fixed by 1x retry (DaveBarach, 16:30:31)
    3. latest gerrit plugin retry reporting mechanics: transient -1 grade on retry, if it works, reset to +1 (DaveBarach, 16:31:22)
    4. post-release, we can flip the switch (DaveBarach, 16:32:02)
    5. dwallace: wait until CSIT reports are in hand. (DaveBarach, 16:33:30)

  8. transition to groups.io (DaveBarach, 16:35:46)
    1. opinion: less talking more doing... AKA no obvious issues (DaveBarach, 16:36:00)

  9. Static analysis (DaveBarach, 16:37:07)
    1. hovering around 20 defects (DaveBarach, 16:37:15)
    2. last build failed, no obvious reason (DaveBarach, 16:37:23)

  10. scale issue w/ GTP-U tunnels (DaveBarach, 16:39:02)
    1. interface creation at high scale could be an issue, John Lo working on it (DaveBarach, 16:39:27)
    2. create 10K tunnels (DaveBarach, 16:40:00)
    3. traffic flowing, create another 10K tunnels (DaveBarach, 16:40:12)
    4. forwarding rate goes way down due to graph manipulation / barrier sync (DaveBarach, 16:41:23)

  11. SELINUX review patch pushed (Billy McFall) (DaveBarach, 16:46:21)
    1. moving files around for selinux doc reasons (DaveBarach, 16:46:42)
    2. wiki update suggested (DaveBarach, 16:47:56)
    3. +1 (tfherbert, 16:47:59)
    4. vhost socket location /tmp/xxx -> /var/run/vpp/xxx (DaveBarach, 16:48:32)
    5. Dave Wallace trying to scrub wiki ref: release content (DaveBarach, 16:53:08)
    6. trying to remove references to Ubuntu 14.04 (DaveBarach, 16:53:31)
    7. package list wrong on wiki (DaveBarach, 16:53:41)


Meeting ended at 16:59:04 UTC (full logs).

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