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#fdio-vpp: fdio-vpp
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Meeting started by DaveBarach at 14:59:28 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-vpp/2019/fdio-vpp.2019-04-16-14.59.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* CSIT (Maciek reporting)  (DaveBarach, 15:01:12)
  * CSIT rls1904 branch pulled, dry runs of vpp-19.04 starting
    (mackonstan, 15:02:25)
  * Content of CSIT-1904 in wiki  (mackonstan, 15:02:41)
  * LINK: https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1904_plan  (mackonstan,
    15:02:46)
  * Two issues in trending:  (mackonstan, 15:02:56)
  * i) IPsec tunnel-interface test failures, VPP fix
    https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/18834/ to be verified  (mackonstan,
    15:03:03)
  * ii) VPP with DPDK driving physical interfaces: packets not passing
    in VPP configs with large number of rx queues and workers (over
    16rxq/multi-queues) that require high values of buffers-per-numa,
    resolution in progress. The same tests with native VPP AVF driver
    work fine.  (mackonstan, 15:03:49)

* Honeycomb (Michal C reporting)  (DaveBarach, 15:05:00)
  * tomorrow code freeze for 19.04  (DaveBarach, 15:05:07)

* Host Stack (florin c reporting)  (DaveBarach, 15:05:26)
  * 19.04 host stack stable  (DaveBarach, 15:05:38)
  * 19.08 development: refactor svm infra to support dynamic fifo sizing
    (DaveBarach, 15:06:14)
  * autotuning algorithm not currently in-scope  (DaveBarach, 15:06:34)
  * fifos need to change. Thanks Sirshak for help  (DaveBarach,
    15:07:18)
  * added a basic rb-tree implementation to vppinfra  (DaveBarach,
    15:07:28)

* aarch64 (Sirshak)  (DaveBarach, 15:08:43)
  * removing 2**n fifo size restriction in patch  (DaveBarach, 15:08:56)
  * packaging change patch ready for review 19.08 delivery  (DaveBarach,
    15:09:28)

* 19.01 (Dave Wallace)  (DaveBarach, 15:10:02)
  * require 19.01.2, to start after 19.04 formal release, first week of
    May  (DaveBarach, 15:10:27)

* 19.04 (Dave Wallace)  (DaveBarach, 15:10:43)
  * RC1 last week  (DaveBarach, 15:10:47)
  * a number of issues found + fixed, will update document / cookbook
    (DaveBarach, 15:11:02)
  * freezing master [we don't really need to]  (DaveBarach, 15:11:22)
  * label position requirements will be documented  (DaveBarach,
    15:11:40)
  * next time, we should need to freeze master for about ten minutes
    (DaveBarach, 15:12:35)
  * issue w/ centos validation, thanks to tom/billy for help
    straightening it out  (DaveBarach, 15:14:55)
  * we don't have a patch validation requirement for centos. Workaround:
    hand-install packages  (DaveBarach, 15:15:34)
  * a hole when we install new features  (DaveBarach, 15:16:08)
  * Tom H has a patch ready for the spec file  (DaveBarach, 15:16:23)
  * minor issues: csit midly confused by labels, initial merge jobs
    failing because packagcloud repo had nothing in the "bionic" section
    (DaveBarach, 15:20:12)
  * merge job failing because base pkg repo add uses master for
    dependencies, need to uninstall before trying to make 19.04 version
    (DaveBarach, 15:21:23)
  * name of the next release discussion, cadence  (DaveBarach, 15:22:17)
  * any issue w/ revising the release cadence to 3/yr, aka 4 months
    (DaveBarach, 15:22:38)
  * Considering a 12/18 formal release date  (DaveBarach, 15:28:35)
  * AGREED: release cadence going forward will be xx.1 xx.5 xx.9, with
    19.08 as planned  (DaveBarach, 15:32:33)
  * RC2 tomorrow, please get fixes in ASAP, must have JIRA ticket
    numbers  (DaveBarach, 15:33:36)

* Infra Status (Ed Kern reporting)  (DaveBarach, 15:34:49)
  * minor latency spike this morning  (DaveBarach, 15:34:58)
  * will release old arm nodes shortly  (DaveBarach, 15:35:11)
  * will update servers which have been up for > 300 days  (DaveBarach,
    15:35:39)



Meeting ended at 15:38:38 UTC.



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* mackonstan (6)
* collabot (3)



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