[ovs-dev] OVS-DPDK public meeting

[Kevin Traynor]

23rd August 2017

ATTENDEES: Aaron, Ben, Flavio, Darrell, Antonio, Ian, Georg, Michael,
Ori, Rohit, Sammeh, Yippeng, Frikkie, Kevin, Billy, Zoltan (Missed some)

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GENERAL
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- OVS 2.8
-- Finalizing NSH commits for 2.8
-- Aiming for release next week
-- RH testing (Flavio)
--- Found issue related to non-root user and selinux - Aaron sent fix
--- Possible issue on gre mtu? Will send note when testing finished

- OVS 2.9 features list (Ian)
-- Would like to forge ahead and put in docs in about a week
-- no objections on call

OVS Conf
- Nov 16/17. Not fully confirmed
- Probably won't have a dedicated OVS-DPDK day as 2 days of DPDK summit
and 2 days OVS conference should be enough time to for OVS-DPDK discussions
- OVS-DPDK submissions welcome for OVS conference

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PERFORMANCE/FEATURES
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- Improved Packet Drop Statistics in OVS (Rohit)
-- Proposal to improve packet counts around dropped packets
-- Will submit more info the ML

- Tx batching
-- Bhanu requested not to proceed with netdev implementation
-- dpif solution is preferred now

- non root user (Aaron)
-- Possible now on rhel/fedora with Aaron's patches and DPDK 17.05

- rxq pmd assignment (Kevin)
-- Will track cycles used by rxqs and assign to pmds based on this

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HARDWARE OFFLOAD
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- Classification offload (Ori/Michael)
-- Patches submitted By Yuanhan/Finn
-- Reworked to be more like to how tc offload is done
-- An unresolved issue is that MARK action cannot be supported without QUEUE


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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