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Attendees
Al Morton Sridhar Rao Candidate Intern Shivank Chaudhary
| Item | Desc | who | Notes/minutes |
| Interview with Shivank | Sridhar and Al | We had a great chat with Shivank. Sridhar has made the Internship responsibilities clear and assigned some initial tasks. Shivank prefers this to be a 3 month term, IIRC. | |
| Development for Moselle Release | Off-line | M4 Due next Moselle Schedule see Release table below, specific M4 Requirements are:
Sridhar Rao Added reviewing for 6-7 patches in gerrit last week. ACTION: Al Morton review the patches in gerrit, review Daniele's big patch first! Update the Moselle table below as these reviews are completed. Al Morton has reviewed all patches from Daniele and Sridhar, all are merged. | |
| ITEMS Below Deferred for future meeting | |||
| Testbed - IXIA support | Sridhar/Al | 2nd ACTION: Do we have support from Ancuta or other IXIA person? Al Morton sent e-mail ACTION: License for IXIA HW - Check with Trevor Trevor Cooper says connected and powered on, but we still might have a license issue. Need Pierre's help. this seems to have stalled ... | |
| Additional Mentoring input | Federica | python scripting with K8s is possible for some students in 3rd year. Projects must have resume value, add skill set or new experience. Sridhar Rao created some projects. ACTION: See proposals & review https://wiki.anuket.io/display/HOME/Potential+Projects+for+Student+Volunteers | |
| LFN Intern/Mentoring proposal | Sridhar/Al/Federica | Proposed 2022 Work Under LF Mentorship Program XDP performance Studies for Cloud-Native NFV Use Cases Al Morton to connect with Maryam, DONE. "Maryam Tahhan joins the crew to talk XDP, AF_XDP, and fast networking" Operations support seems to be a big issue, and performance is currently about 0.7 of VPP and DPDK ACTION: EVERYONE, review the papers as selected, plus the Intro of the thesis paper Al Morton the Intro to the Thesis is good, as Sridhar suggested. We have been contacted twice by a strong candidate Intern, Shivank Chaudhary, who will complete the application process ASAP. He has already reviewed the project materials and papers, and is still very interested. | |
| Work for next month | Sridhar | Bring closure to Daniele's work and see if there is anything worth publishing, may consider less-selective conferences if novelty is less |
Progress for Moselle (summary: items 5,6,and 7 lack the necessary automated address discovery feature, defer)
| 1 | Epic-VINEPERF-672:Create Tools as part of moselle release | 1. Done (Yet to submit the patch) 2. Another - Will not implement - Idea is already stale. | CCLA for Moselle release (LF as C) CCLA issue resolved Patch is submitted - Done. | |||
| 2 | Epic-VINEPERF-671:Add support for newer software versions | Completed testing. | Done | |||
| 3 | Epic-VINEPERF-670:Create clean workflows for Baremetal, Openstack and Kubernetes Usecases | Workflows are drawn-up. Implementation may need few more days. Request for 1 week more. | Minor work needed for K8s Workflow DONE??? I think so. | |||
| 4 | Epic-VINEPERF-669:Improve Stability for moselle Release | 1. Bug Fixes (2 patches) | Done | |||
| 5 | Epic-VINEPERF-652:Enhance XTesting-ViNePerf Integration | Moved to Next Release | depends on 7 | |||
| 6 | Task-VINEPERF-658:Enhance framework for XTesting-K8s Usecase | Partially done (reading results from output), Deployment tool. | 1 task remains | |||
| 7 | Task-VINEPERF-654:XTesting-ViNePerf Integration Enhancement - Kubernetes | Will not implement due to limitations with CNIs. Moved to Next release - if CNIs support this. | Need CNI to add flows automatically in Switches (Userspace-CNI, supports DPDK, OVS, VPP). Major impediment to integrate with X-Testing Sridhar will check with Xavier if ARP resolution is supported in Prox as a switch TBD | |||
| 8 | Task-VINEPERF-653:XTesting-ViNePerf Enhancement - Openstack [OLD] | Done | ||||
| 9 | Epic-VINEPERF-638:Dataplane performance testing for various internal (within cloud) scenarios | Completed - Yet to submit the patches - Done | Danielle will submit patches after Thesis on Friday, Monday 04/25 After review tomorrow, Daniele will submit the patch. Al Morton will need to review (big patch with documentation) - Done | |||
| 10 | Task-VINEPERF-643:Pod-Pod Communication | |||||
ACTION ITEMS
- Sridhar Rao to think of Python scripting tasks.
- ACTION: Al Morton review the patches in gerrit, review Daniele's big patch first! Update the Moselle table below as these reviews are completed.