16:01:25 #startmeeting fdio-vpp 16:01:25 Meeting started Tue Feb 11 16:01:25 2020 UTC. The chair is DaveBarach. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 16:01:25 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 16:01:25 The meeting name has been set to 'fdio_vpp' 16:01:52 #topic CSIT (Maciek reporting) 16:02:28 #info 20.01 report expected tomorrow or Thursday, maybe 1 day late 16:02:54 #info Report will include pkt latency graphs 16:03:32 #info microcode upgrades for Spectre / Meltdown has had bad effects on Skylake, Cascade Lake 16:03:56 #info Intel recommendation is to revert microcode 16:04:48 #info will include release note to describe why we're not releasing Cascade Lake / Skylake data 16:05:50 #info skylake 5% perf hit, cascade lake 30% perf hit 16:06:45 #info Intel has reproduced the ucode issues, reproduced across a range of hardware platforms 16:07:11 #topic Host Stack (Florin reporting) 16:07:49 #info starting to add NUMA-aware fifo memory allocation 16:08:08 #info VCL udp support working well 16:08:24 #info also a number of misc fixes 16:08:54 #info major svm fifo refactor to reduce memory consumption. Patches published but not merged 16:09:06 #info plan to eventually support fifo-size autotuning 16:09:33 #info optimizing codebase for > 1M session scale cases 16:10:22 #topic Release Management(Dave Wallace) 16:10:29 #info 20.01 released on schedule 16:10:43 #info next release will be 20.05 16:11:03 #action Andrew to publish plan, etc. by March meeting 16:11:48 #info 19.08.1 is current, we've deferred 19.08.2 until now. Plan to coordinate test w/ csit community so we have perf trending info 16:12:11 #info expect 19.08.2 in the next couple of weeks 16:12:36 #topic Infra (Ed K reporting) 16:13:26 #info LF needs to schedule monthly updates, would like to do updates next week. Requires outages, etc. 16:13:55 #info Note LF infra support wiki page: 16:14:05 #link https://wiki.fd.io/view/Infrastructure_Support 16:15:12 #info packagecloud image release process, vpp already doing the right things, etc. 16:16:30 #info hicn project was accidentally filling the release directory with >10,000 images, etc. 16:19:01 #info Keyword "betacheck" will trigger Jenkins Ubuntu 20.04 / CentOS-8 jobs 16:22:35 #topic Documentation (John D) 16:23:27 #info LFN marketing still working on a blog post vis a vis 20.01. 16:24:11 #info whitepaper on its way. John DeGiglio involved, LFN project descriptions 16:24:54 #info 19.08, 19.04 doc merge jobs currently failing, Dave W and John D to address 16:25:25 #action Dave W / John D to address 19.08, 19.04 merge jobs 16:26:33 #topic aarch64 Juraj cross-compilation topic 16:44:10 #action dbarach to ask LF about a coverity license (TSC Thursday) 16:48:28 #topic HQoS support in fd.io (Ray, Steven Byrne) 16:49:08 #info original implementation was bolted together 16:49:18 #info want to do a 2.0 integration now 16:49:28 #info with actual maintenance, ownership 16:50:48 #info looking to have a next-stage technical / design 16:59:22 #action Steve Byrne to setup tech deep dive on hqos 16:59:52 #endmeeting