[ovs-dev] OVS-DPDK public meeting

Kevin Traynor ktraynor at redhat.com
Thu Sep 17 11:08:47 UTC 2020


Next meeting October 14th 1600 UTC

Minutes: Sept 16

Attendees: Ameer, David, Flavio, Fouad, Gaetan, Gregory, Ilya, Majd, Oz,
Scott, Simon, Thomas, William, Roni, Harsha, Hemal, Ajit, Anurag, Kevin

Agenda:

- OVS LTS
-- Discussion on OVS LTS upstream
-- Aims to clarify and document a default LTS selection process
-- https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=197572
-- V2 is coming

- OVS/OVN Conf (virtual)
-- Dec. 7 to 11
-- Conf CFP
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-announce/2020-September/000265.html

- DPDK Userspace (virtual)
-- Sept 22 - 23
--
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-userspace-summit/program/schedule/

- OVS Reviews
-- Ilya has been scrubbing patchwork
-- 203 patches currently in patchwork
-- Reviews are slow - onus on everyone to help
-- Separate meeting requested to brainstorm ideas and plan how to get
more timely reviews

- Hardware Offload (Majd)
-- Oz presented on new DPDK API as a helper to using rte_flow in OVS
-- Presentation is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1re8OWHjeW7S8dSiUykMSWJZottl2AQSF
-- Recording is here:
https://bluejeans.com/s/P9t6iZw8cBX/

-- Difficulties seen in the past in specifying usage of rte_flow from
OVS to allow for optimization for different Hw vendors
-- New API aims to allow application an opaque method of using Hw vendor
specific helpers in DPDK
-- Looking for reviews:
--- http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-June/169656.html
--- http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-July/172375.html

On 25/07/2017 14:25, 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
> 
> US: +1.408.740.7256
> UK: +44.203.608.5256
> Germany: +49.32.221.091256
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> Other numbers at https://www.bluejeans.com/numbers
> Meeting ID: 139318596
> 
> thanks,
> Kevin.
> 



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