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#opnfv-vswitchperf: vsperf weekly call
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Meeting started by mtahhan at 15:01:27 UTC.  The full logs are available
at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/opnfv-vswitchperf/2016/opnfv-vswitchperf.2016-08-31-15.01.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Al Morton  (acm, 15:06:02)
* New version of MoonGen coming, many new features  (acm, 15:06:29)
* MoonGen Latency is a new ticket, Bill  (acm, 15:06:49)
*   (acm, 15:06:51)
* vloop VNF updated with ethtool  (acm, 15:07:29)
* ethtool adds some networking capability  (acm, 15:08:39)
* ACTION: mtahhan will send exact mods on ethtool  (acm, 15:09:07)
* new contributor, Alex submitted patch for review  (acm, 15:09:50)
* Martin's patch allows any number of VMs connected in series.  Big
  patch.  (acm, 15:10:28)
* called PXP X = many Vs  (acm, 15:11:44)
* ACTION: everyone: how do we reflect the num of VMs and passes thorugh
  SR-IOV of vswitch  (acm, 15:14:28)
* in our current PVVP path code descriptions  (acm, 15:15:06)
* real easy to make this codeing too complicated and make it unusable!
  (acm, 15:16:25)
* JIRA issues need to be moved to September Sprint  (acm, 15:17:48)
* if you need scheduling priv. let Maryam know!  (acm, 15:18:16)
* Sridhar would like to show a demo 2889 test next week  (acm, 15:20:27)
* hi vsperf meeting in progress  (acm, 15:21:21)
* ACTION: mtahhan will add a JIRA ticket for D release discussions
  (acm, 15:26:31)
* Sridhar on traffic generator  -- MoonGen -- mentioned background load
  vs network load  (acm, 15:27:46)
* DIcussion on Background Load - we need to account for all of it  (acm,
  15:33:23)
* LINK:
  https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/papers/IFIP-Networking-2016-FLOWer.pdf
  (mtahhan, 15:33:42)
* LINK:
  https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/papers/MoonGen_IMC2015.pdf
  - original paper  (marst, 15:36:53)
* Figure 3 shows a bi-modal distribution  (acm, 15:42:35)
* Need to add priority for D  (acm, 15:43:00)
* ACTION: look at paper for next week, understand and discuss  (acm,
  15:44:11)
* above is for everyone!  (acm, 15:44:30)
* Yardstick integration - basic config of flows using heat, some more
  (acm, 15:46:03)
* for D-relaease, Yardstick is enabling plug-in architecture, much
  better integ, but reported by Yardstick (plots)  (acm, 15:46:59)
* it means using the cloud platform for VNF config and vsperf for test
  gen config (and OVS config?)  (acm, 15:49:28)
* analysis of YS tests in nightly build will help with reviewing
  reepeatability  (acm, 15:52:10)



Meeting ended at 15:53:22 UTC.



Action items, by person
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* mtahhan
  * mtahhan will send exact mods on ethtool
  * mtahhan will add a JIRA ticket for D release discussions
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * everyone: how do we reflect the num of VMs and passes thorugh SR-IOV
    of vswitch
  * look at paper for next week, understand and discuss



People present (lines said)
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* acm (28)
* mtahhan (4)
* collabot (4)
* marst (1)
* LGee (1)



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