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#fdio-vpp: fdio-vpp
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Meeting started by DaveBarach at 15:00:48 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-vpp/2020/fdio_vpp/fdio-vpp-fdio_vpp.2020-09-08-15.00.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* CSIT (Maciek reporting)  (DaveBarach, 15:01:44)
  * Maciek K.  (mackonstan, 15:01:46)
  * New / updated tests: lots of focus on nat44:  (mackonstan, 15:01:59)
  * i) nat44-deterministic throughput (TRex stateless, bi-dir),
    ii)nat44-endpoint-dependent throughput (TRex stateless, uni-dir),
    iii)nat44-ed CPS and throughput (TRex stateful, bi-dir).
    (mackonstan, 15:02:45)
  * All nat44 tests at varying scale 64k to 16M UDP sessions. TCP to
    follow.  (mackonstan, 15:02:59)
  * Test framework, environment: TRex stateless and stateful calibration
    work, TRex multi-thread "tuning" for higher speeds to fill MLX /
    100GE.  (mackonstan, 15:03:23)
  * CSIT-2009: f1 milestone on Wed, branch pull, dry run tests of VPP
    rc1.  (mackonstan, 15:04:08)

* Host stack (Florin reporting)  (DaveBarach, 15:04:43)
  * TCP tracks reordering w/ SACKs  (DaveBarach, 15:05:09)
  * network simulator plugin now supports packet reordering
    (DaveBarach, 15:05:52)
  * LDP / vcl added support for multiple workers working with multiple
    app workers  (DaveBarach, 15:07:05)
  * small fixes in vcl, session layer for cut-through sessions
    (DaveBarach, 15:07:22)

* Docs (John D, Ray)  (DaveBarach, 15:07:56)
  * new infographic from Marketing, need tech review  (DaveBarach,
    15:08:15)

* Release management (Andrew, DaveW)  (DaveBarach, 15:08:56)
  * 20.09 RC1 throttle pull tomorrow  (DaveBarach, 15:09:09)
  * Production APIs are effectively frozen all of the time  (DaveBarach,
    15:09:54)
  * 2 weeks post-RC2, to see if we can avoid an immediate point release.
    (DaveBarach, 15:11:11)

* 20.05.01 released over a month ago  (DaveBarach, 15:12:09)
  * 19.08.3 csit report deferred until 20.09 report is released
    (DaveBarach, 15:13:51)
  * DaveBarach back...  (DaveBarach, 15:17:39)

* Infra (Dave W)  (DaveBarach, 15:18:43)
  * at least 3 unscheduled Jenkins restarts due to Vexxhost work,
    mistakes, etc.  (DaveBarach, 15:19:24)
  * network between 2 data centers simply not reliable  (DaveBarach,
    15:19:47)
  * hope to relocate Nomad servers to the same DC. Budget input to LFN
    in progress  (DaveBarach, 15:20:28)
  * requesting larger VM instances for Jenkins; currently only 8g
    (DaveBarach, 15:20:55)
  * still running on ancient Docker instances, working on automation for
    creating new instances  (DaveBarach, 15:23:22)
  * next week, will push new instances as documented in gerrit 28022
    (DaveBarach, 15:23:46)
  * will deploy 20.04, centos8 and debian9 executors  (DaveBarach,
    15:26:55)
  * ACTION: Andrew to chase down static analysis nits  (DaveBarach,
    15:27:43)

* Discussion of AMD Epyc performance  (DaveBarach, 15:36:46)
  * competitive with similar Intel h/w, ddio clearly counts for a good
    deal  (DaveBarach, 15:37:31)
  * AMD has testbeds going into CSIT, being onboarded now  (DaveBarach,
    15:43:54)
  * expect to update 20.09 csit report w/ AMD perf numbers  (DaveBarach,
    15:44:23)



Meeting ended at 15:46:13 UTC.



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