Meeting 2024-08-06

• Team calendar

  • Next on Necko triage: Ed

• New contributors / Friends of Necko THANK YOU!!

  • Max Inden

    • Bug: 1910360 Use quinn-udp instead of NSPR for QUIC I/O on Nightly

    • Bug: 1911658 Crash in [@ core::slice::impl$0::chunks]

  • :gerard-majax

    •  Bug: 1910821 Use correct mutex for gConnRecvMutex in FuzzyLayer

• Round Table

  • No public topics this week.

• Active Projects roadmap 

  • Native HTTPS RR Implementation (riding the trains, target Fx129)

  • 3rd Party Cookie Deprecation (in progress, target Fx133)

    • [Ed]

      • Need to make fixes to this patch

      • Tim should be back from PTO need to discuss getting chips partition limit to ride the rails

  • Fetch keepalive: (in progress, Target Fx131) 

    • Pushing release to Fx131 to accommodate additional scope to support workers.

    • [Sunil] Milestone 2 Changes implementation review complete, will merge after completion of test review.

    • [Sunil] Started work on Milestone 3 and extending WPTs for workers.

• HTTP Priorities Experiments (in progress, target Fx130 )

  • Experiment Perf Reports:

    • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/11047744/Experiments+Necko

• Firefox/Chrome benchmark test suite (in progress, Fx132)

  • [kershaw]

    • Bug 1895359 Install the Node.js server to handle file uploads and the Caddy server to provide HTTP/3 support.

      • R?

    • Working on traffic shaping scripts

• Interop 2024 URL (in progress, target H2 2024)

  • [Ed] Addressing code review suggestions for 1889988

• necko-glean: (sekim) Landing glean patches using #ifndef ANDROID blocks tracking such blocks using Bug 1901798  

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• Fast UDP I/O in Firefox (in progress, target H2 2024)

  • Milestone 1

    • Enabled by default on Firefox Nightly https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D217830

    • Seccomp failure on Android x86

      • https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn/issues/1947

      • Not able to reproduce in emulator thus far.

      • Using NSPR for now.

    • Crash when reading empty UDP datagram on Windows

      • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1911658

      • Will be fixed with upcoming neqo v0.8.2.

      • https://github.com/mozilla/neqo/pull/2044

      • Using NSPR for now.

  • Milestone 2

    • Improve ECN blackhole handling merged.

    • Will be uplifted by upcoming neqo v0.8.2 https://github.com/mozilla/neqo/issues/2040

  • Glean metrics

    • Andrew Creskey built a dashboard.

• PMTUD for QUIC

  • Still blocked on test failure https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1909910#c3

  • Prioritizing Fast UDP I/O in Firefox milestone 2

• Performance work: 

  • [acreskey] 

    • Experiment Perf Reports:

      • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FIREFOX/pages/11047744/Experiments+Necko

    • Update to Network Performance Pulse dashboards

      • Pageload metrics by protocol version

    • Fenix slow pageload bugs

      • Fenix slow, stalled pageload bugs

  • New experiments:

    • OMT Decompression + html5Parser, cssLoader for Beta

      • Experiment Brief

      • Data ticket

      • [Sunil] Experiment is live

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