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#fdio-vpp: fdio-vpp
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Meeting started by DaveBarach at 15:00:22 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-vpp/2020/fdio-vpp.2020-03-10-15.00.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* CSIT (Maciek reporting)  (DaveBarach, 15:02:55)
  * done w/ CSIT 20.02  (DaveBarach, 15:03:31)
  * will update 20.05 deliverables on wiki this week  (DaveBarach,
    15:04:11)
  * Skylake: delayed testing due to ucode updates  (DaveBarach,
    15:04:33)
  * iidentified 3 issues: 1. 30% perf regression on Cascade Lake
    (DaveBarach, 15:05:01)
  * ACTION: Maciek to up date vpp-dev / csit mailers  (DaveBarach,
    15:08:09)
  * DPDK tests also affected  (DaveBarach, 15:08:25)
  * Issues 2, 3 reproduced by Intel Chandler  (DaveBarach, 15:08:50)
  * Would like to publish numbers and move on. Two options: increase
    queue lengths -> PDR rates much better on 3-node testbed
    (DaveBarach, 15:10:46)
  * AGREED: Go with Suggestion 1  (DaveBarach, 15:14:30)

* Host Stack (Florin)  (DaveBarach, 15:15:09)
  * Major FIFO refactor merged. Considerable memory savings at a minor
    cost in CPU cycles  (DaveBarach, 15:15:41)
  * improved timer pacing, spread timer expirations over 50ms so we
    don't handle too many timers per dispatch loop  (DaveBarach,
    15:16:57)
  * Session layer scheduling improvements, to limit max packet bursts
    per dispatch cycle  (DaveBarach, 15:17:23)
  * VCL lock layer (VLS) used w/ LD_PRELOAD shim improve lock efficiency
    (DaveBarach, 15:17:53)
  * requests/sec testing w/ wrk 1.4 e 6/sec, improved to 1.9 e6 /sec
    (DaveBarach, 15:19:06)

* Documentation (John DeNisco)  (DaveBarach, 15:20:07)
  * whitepaper send to conference, conf. cancelled due to Coronavirus
    (DaveBarach, 15:21:28)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/3.+Brief+project+overview
    (dwallacelf, 15:21:38)
  * John will attend marketing meetings to push blog post forward
    (DaveBarach, 15:21:52)
  * John's link
    https://wiki.lfnetworking.org/display/LN/3.+Brief+project+overview
    (florinc, 15:22:52)

* Release Management (Dave W, Andrew on PTO)  (DaveBarach, 15:24:14)
  * 20.05 release plan published  (DaveBarach, 15:24:35)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.fd.io/view/Projects/vpp/Release_Plans/Release_Plan_20.05
    (DaveBarach, 15:24:49)
  * dates are in the plan document  (DaveBarach, 15:25:04)
  * 20.01 some commits, no requests for a formal release  (DaveBarach,
    15:25:35)
  * 19.08 still pulling non-API changing patches  (DaveBarach, 15:26:14)
  * we haven't been merging API affecting patches, we have one pending
    (DaveBarach, 15:26:59)
  * absent a discussion, will -2 the patch.  (DaveBarach, 15:27:39)
  * Vratko has patches ready to do stable/19..08 validation
    (DaveBarach, 15:29:17)
  * ACTION: Dave Wallace to follow up with Christian about the
    IS_INBOUND flag API change  (DaveBarach, 15:31:25)
  * haven't scheduled 19.08.2, if needed please let us know
    (DaveBarach, 15:32:20)
  * given timing on 20.05, should deal with 19.08.2 last week of March /
    beginning of April  (DaveBarach, 15:32:48)

* Infra (Dave W, Ed K)  (DaveBarach, 15:37:03)
  * no drama  (DaveBarach, 15:37:13)
  * Plan to remove the naginator plugin, may cause more manual rechecks
    (DaveBarach, 15:38:28)

* QoS replacement (Jon L)  (DaveBarach, 15:40:38)
  * any updates?  (DaveBarach, 15:40:43)



Meeting ended at 15:48:29 UTC.



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* florinc (1)
* dwallacelf (1)



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