#fdio-vpp: fdio-vpp

Meeting started by DaveBarach at 15:00:20 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. CSIT (Maciek reporting) (DaveBarach, 15:02:41)
    1. CSIT-1904 report published (mackonstan, 15:02:48)
    2. https://docs.fd.io/csit/rls1940/report/ (mackonstan, 15:02:54)
    3. rls delay due to LFN Jenkins outages (mackonstan, 15:03:01)
    4. Identified VPP issues: (mackonstan, 15:03:12)
    5. i) IPsec tunnel-interface test failures, patches still undergoing verification (VPP-1670, -1671) (mackonstan, 15:03:23)
    6. ii) 9000B tests failing for IPsec, memif, nat44 (VPP-1675, -1676, -1677) (mackonstan, 15:03:51)
    7. Notable performance improvement vs. previous release: VM vhost (mackonstan, 15:04:34)
    8. https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/_static/vpp/performance-changes-2n-skx-2t1c-ndr.txt (mackonstan, 15:04:47)

  2. host stack (Florin reporting) (DaveBarach, 15:05:56)
    1. more svm fifo / fifo segment updates. Shrinking fifos now supported (DaveBarach, 15:06:15)
    2. decoupled fifo allocation into header, data chunks (DaveBarach, 15:06:47)
    3. should properly reuse memory when freed (DaveBarach, 15:07:05)

  3. Documentation (John D reporting) (DaveBarach, 15:07:45)
    1. prototype main fd.io site available (DaveBarach, 15:07:57)
    2. will present at next vpp public call in 2 weeks (DaveBarach, 15:08:20)

  4. aarch64 / arm (Sirshak reporting) (DaveBarach, 15:09:07)
    1. gcc 7.3 is OK, but 7.4 is not OK. Fixed in 8.3 as well (DaveBarach, 15:09:56)
    2. causing Jenkins failures in Bionic (DaveBarach, 15:10:08)
    3. update-alternatives to gcc-8.3 discussion (DaveBarach, 15:10:56)

  5. Honeycomb (Michal reporting) (DaveBarach, 15:22:16)
    1. release OK / done (DaveBarach, 15:22:24)

  6. 19.04 (Dave W reporting) (DaveBarach, 15:22:37)
    1. 2 maint releases in the queue 19.01, 19.04 (DaveBarach, 15:22:56)
    2. Jenkins issues may delay past tomorrow, likely will pull 19.01.2 this week (DaveBarach, 15:23:23)
    3. 19.04 several patches in the queue, target date two weeks from Weds (DaveBarach, 15:24:04)
    4. csit will do directed testing for issue verification (DaveBarach, 15:24:25)

  7. aarch64 package installation patch (Sirshak) (DaveBarach, 15:25:25)
    1. hyperscan required by dpi plugin, not compiling on arm (DaveBarach, 15:26:00)
    2. ref: master not release (DaveBarach, 15:26:28)
    3. Jerome: DPI plugin multiple patch-sets, incremental functionality, lacking a signature database (DaveBarach, 15:27:27)
    4. Damjan: first patch-set wasn't multi-packet capable (DaveBarach, 15:28:17)
    5. Jerome: increasing encrypted traffic, must deal with TLS (DaveBarach, 15:28:58)
    6. ACTION: Sirshak and Jerome to sync up offline (DaveBarach, 15:30:25)

  8. API Flag Days (Dave Wallace) (DaveBarach, 15:30:48)
    1. comparison done in CSIT (DaveBarach, 15:31:03)
    2. https://gerrit.fd.io/r/18356 (dwallacelf, 15:31:17)
    3. please review the doc, add comments (DaveBarach, 15:31:34)

  9. Jenkins issues (DaveBarach, 15:34:43)
    1. looks like the queue is running again as of this minute (DaveBarach, 15:36:48)


Meeting ended at 15:41:02 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. Sirshak and Jerome to sync up offline


People present (lines said)

  1. DaveBarach (33)
  2. mackonstan (8)
  3. collabot (3)
  4. dwallacelf (1)


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