[ovs-dev] OVS-DPDK public meeting

[Kevin Traynor]

9th August 2017

ATTENDEES: Aaron C, Antonio F, Ciara L, Darrell B,
Olga A, Sugesh C, Mark K, Michael L, Johan T, Peter S, Ian S, Kevin T,
Yipeng W, Billy O'M, Finn C, Georg S, Jan S, Simon H, Ben P, Ori, (may
have missed some)

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GENERAL
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- OVS 2.8
-- OVS 2.8 branched
-- Looking at end of August for release
-- Bug fixes at this point

- DPDK 17.05.2
-- Discussion on whether this would be out in time for OVS 2.8
-- Probably too late for validation with OVS 2.8

- DPDK 17.08
-- Released this week

- Staging branch
-- Darrell gave us an update about this
-- No serious problems reported so far
-- Plan to submit merge requests on regular basis (~1 week)
-- Request for usual "applied" email reply to merged patches

- Feature proposals for OVS 2.9
-- Ian will send list of features Intel are planning to work on

- Conferences fyi
-- DPDK Userspace - September 26-27 Dublin
-- DPDK Summit - November 14-15 San Jose
-- OVS Conference - TBC, may align with DPDK summit
-- Openstack Summit - November 6-8 Sydney

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PERFORMANCE/FEATURES
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- Tx batching
-- Won't make OVS 2.8
-- Bhanu mentioned "Additional changes" on ML. Request to ensure all
required patches are submitted.

- Cuckoo distributor
-- Antonio requested some testing for this.

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HARDWARE OFFLOAD
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- Mellanox will submit patches based on collaboration with Napatech
- Suggestion/Request to try and make higher layers follow same model as
tc offload
- Request for Joe to review


On 07/25/2017 02:25 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The OVS-DPDK public meetings have moved to Wednesday's at the same time.
> Everyone is welcome, it's a chance to share status/plans etc.
> 
> It's scheduled for every 2 weeks starting 26th July. Meeting time is
> currently @ 4pm UTC.
> 
> You can connect through Bluejeans or through dial in:
> 
> https://bluejeans.com/139318596
> 
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> Meeting ID: 139318596
> 
> thanks,
> Kevin.
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