#fdio-vpp: fd.io-vpp

Meeting started by DaveBarach at 16:00:01 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. csit (Maciek reporting) (DaveBarach, 16:01:59)
    1. package name change(s) temporarily broke trending jobs (DaveBarach, 16:02:22)
    2. patch to turn off VIRL jobs still pending (DaveBarach, 16:02:37)
    3. driver testing coming soon (DaveBarach, 16:03:01)

  2. Honeycomb (Michal reporting) (DaveBarach, 16:03:50)
    1. jvpp packages unavailable (DaveBarach, 16:04:26)
    2. can generate via cmake / ninja (DaveBarach, 16:05:36)
    3. ACTION: dbarach to mail trishan about jvpp project resources e.g. on gerrit.fd.io (DaveBarach, 16:11:04)
    4. 19.01 HC code complete, start testing tomorrow (DaveBarach, 16:11:27)

  3. Host Stack (Florin) (DaveBarach, 16:11:34)
    1. 19.01 not much happening / fixes (tcp, VCL) pushed (DaveBarach, 16:11:59)
    2. 19.04 make vcl and vcl session layer more reliable w/ forking apps (DaveBarach, 16:12:21)
    3. added "VLS" layer, support sshd, nginx (DaveBarach, 16:13:02)

  4. Documentation (John D) (DaveBarach, 16:14:41)
    1. Met w/ LF re: main landing page (DaveBarach, 16:14:58)
    2. mockups being shown internally, wider audience after LF internal review (DaveBarach, 16:15:26)
    3. ACTION: dbarach to ping chris luke about Coverity (DaveBarach, 16:19:00)

  5. Cross Compilation (DaveBarach, 16:21:17)
    1. some packaging work left, but otherwise more or less done (DaveBarach, 16:21:38)
    2. should be able to build arm packages on x86 (DaveBarach, 16:21:47)
    3. on aarch64, multiple cache-line sizes (DaveBarach, 16:22:12)

  6. Buffer Manager Rework (Damjan) (DaveBarach, 16:25:20)
    1. cleanup in progress: old features dating from pre-dpdk days (DaveBarach, 16:25:48)
    2. main change in gerrit (not committed yet), major rework for NUMA awareness (DaveBarach, 16:26:16)
    3. want to unify buffer manager stats (DaveBarach, 16:26:32)
    4. should be fast enough to allocate single buffers, so we can stop making side-bet buffer caches (DaveBarach, 16:27:47)
    5. initialize buffer metadata at buffer free time, because the buffers are hot in the cache then. (DaveBarach, 16:28:16)
    6. do NOT memset vlib_buffer_t to zero, to avoid whacking the buffer pool index (DaveBarach, 16:28:53)
    7. change dpdk: use vpp buffer manager, add custom dpdk mempool calllbacks (DaveBarach, 16:33:15)
    8. ACTION: Shirshak to report on cache line size stragegy for arm packaging (DaveBarach, 16:44:22)


Meeting ended at 16:44:50 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. dbarach to mail trishan about jvpp project resources e.g. on gerrit.fd.io
  2. dbarach to ping chris luke about Coverity
  3. Shirshak to report on cache line size stragegy for arm packaging


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