#fdio-vpp: FD.io

Meeting started by mortderire at 16:02:13 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Agenda Bashing (mortderire, 16:02:37)
    1. VPP 19.04 Plan (mortderire, 16:02:52)
    2. Maciek updates (mackonstan, 16:03:14)
    3. CSIT-1901 report shipped last Thursday (mackonstan, 16:03:24)
    4. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/index.html (mackonstan, 16:03:40)
    5. Additional test measurements are coming in, expecting maintenance report tomorrow, with complete set of data (mackonstan, 16:03:55)
    6. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/vpp_performance_tests/csit_release_notes.html (mackonstan, 16:04:04)
    7. two known IPSec issues: (mackonstan, 16:04:34)
    8. i) CSIT-1427 VPP IPSec AES-GCM cipher scale tests broken, issue with dpdk ipsec backend activation, suspecting CSIT issue (mackonstan, 16:04:46)
    9. ii) CSIT-1234, VPP IPSec CBS-SHA1 throughput regression after switching to OpenSSL backend from DPDK (mackonstan, 16:05:01)
    10. major issues fixed during VPP RC2/release test cycle: (mackonstan, 16:05:37)
    11. iii) VPP-1562, link bonding tests sporadically fail under heavy load due to VPP crash, fixed (mackonstan, 16:05:46)
    12. iv) CSIT-1428, VM vhost tests fail sporadically due to QEMU bug, issue fixed (mackonstan, 16:06:11)
    13. otherwise good :) (mackonstan, 16:06:25)

  2. Honeycomb (mortderire, 16:07:22)
    1. Merged patch to fix and split out JVPP. (mortderire, 16:07:39)
    2. Update from Michal on JVPP. (mortderire, 16:08:08)

  3. Host Stack (mortderire, 16:08:41)
    1. Lots of activity on the Host Stack, spring clean up. (mortderire, 16:09:09)
    2. Intention is to clean up the session layer, application worker, move functionality into the application layer. (mortderire, 16:09:32)
    3. Changed and improved the listen logic, fixed bugs in TLS. (mortderire, 16:10:03)

  4. Documentation (mortderire, 16:10:39)
    1. John De Nesco providing an update, working continues on the main site. (mortderire, 16:11:11)

  5. ARM64 (mortderire, 16:11:20)
    1. Sirsak providing an update (mortderire, 16:11:46)
    2. Working on a FIFO patch, for SCTP and TCP. (mortderire, 16:12:10)
    3. Working on memcpy also, some architectures sees a boost, others see a degradation. (mortderire, 16:12:40)
    4. Other issues are related to ARM Neon buffer pool optimizations. (mortderire, 16:12:59)
    5. Damjan had to exclude some optimizations due to general "weirdness". (mortderire, 16:13:28)

  6. VPP 19.01 release (mortderire, 16:13:39)
    1. Andrew updates ... no updates. (mortderire, 16:13:48)
    2. Will likely be a maintaince release. (mortderire, 16:14:05)
    3. Improving the output of the API differ. (mortderire, 16:15:10)
    4. Maintenance release is because of a critical issue. (mortderire, 16:16:11)
    5. Issue is likely to be link bonding. (mortderire, 16:17:06)

  7. VPP 19.04 (mortderire, 16:18:08)
    1. Dave Wallace is the new release manager!!!!!!!! (mortderire, 16:18:22)
    2. Release schedule is on the wiki, final release would be the 24/04/2019. (mortderire, 16:19:11)
    3. Damjan has already submitted buffer management changes. (mortderire, 16:20:05)

  8. Infra (mortderire, 16:21:45)
    1. Coverity is back, but no sign of reports. (mortderire, 16:21:55)
    2. https://community.synopsys.com/s/article/Coverity-Scan-Update (mortderire, 16:22:50)

  9. Events (mortderire, 16:24:19)
    1. No marketing committee present. (mortderire, 16:24:37)

  10. RDMA Core (mortderire, 16:24:47)
    1. Damjan - using RDMA Core to talk to RDMA enabled NICs. (mortderire, 16:25:22)

  11. OS Integration (mortderire, 16:26:00)
  12. Jerome - any update on CentOS integration for FD.io VPP, previous challenges around compiler versions etc. (mortderire, 16:26:48)
  13. Billy - Thomas Herbert has some changes in the work to get FD.io VPP building/packaged on CentOS 7. (mortderire, 16:27:25)
  14. Billy - work is happening through the NFV SIG. (mortderire, 16:27:43)
    1. Billy - Tom will send an update, on what work is being done through the CentOS NFV SiG. (mortderire, 16:30:00)


Meeting ended at 16:30:18 UTC (full logs).

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