[ovs-dev] OVS-DPDK public meeting

[Kevin Traynor]

Next meeting: 21st August 16:00 UTC.

Minutes of meeting 8th August 2018.
Attendees: Eelco, Thomas, Matteo, Ian, Ophir, Johann, Yipeng, Tiago,
Simon, Kevin.

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GENERAL
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- OVS 2.10
-- No info on anything that would make 2.10 slip
-- No news is good news :-)

- Updates to OVS to use latest DPDK
-- DPDK 18.11 will be an LTS and will be required for hardware offload
-- Suggestion to move OVS master to use DPDK 18.08 interim step
-- Would give time to flush out any integration bugs using later DPDK
releases before DPDK 18.11 is available

- Branches for future work
-- Request from Ophir to have a branch for hardware offload as it will
require significant effort. Ian will talk with Ben about it where it
should be.
-- Suggestion for the future to have a new branch working with latest
DPDK (e.g. 19.02/19.05 etc)to catch and feedback any integration issues.

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PERFORMANCE/FEATURES
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- Outstanding bug fixes:
-- dpif-netdev: Avoid reordering of packets in a batch with same megaflow.
-- This has been reported in the wild and would need to go on branches.
Question about whether this should try to be included for 2.10 release
or not. But anyway patch is not merged in master yet.

- Tiago has posted an RFC of TSO

- Move OVS 2.7 to use 16.11.7
-- Any reason not to? No one had any

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HARDWARE OFFLOAD
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- Ophir gave us an update and it seems like there has been good progress
and collaboration between vendors.
- There would need to be some new functionality wrt adding several ports
at once but it wouldn't break backward compatibility.

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.
> 
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> Kevin.
>