Thanks for the meeting notes Robin, I've edited a bit.

15 DEC 2016
ATTENDEES
Kevin Traynor, Robin Giller, Rashid Khan, Mark Gray, Michael Lilja,
Bhanuprakash Bodireddy, Rony Efraim, Sugesh Chandran, Aaron Conole,
Thomas Monjalon, Daniele diProietto, Vinod Chegu

Next meeting: 2017-01-12

AGENDA
* OVS-DPDK sync up meeting
--status/updates/plans/coordination - good for meeting
--Deep tech discussion to be on the mailing list

* OvS 2.7 status – branch date, experimental tag, etc
--https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2016-December/326025.html
--Port naming change work underway - looking for review, help (Kevin,
Ian). Expect to be merged by next week
--Once this is in we are in good position to remove experimental tag
--vHost PMD - may not make it in this time
--V2 of PMD reconfiguration is out now - looking for review (Ilya is
looking at it - Ian have a look too)
--DPDK timeline - 17.02 release mid February, integration window open
now. 16.11 is the DPDK LTS - let’s go with this!

* Partial offload (packet pipeline) model in OvS-DPDK
--https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2016-December/325597.html
--Enabling partial offload feature for NICs. Looking for comments/review
on this pipeline approach

* DPDK generic flow API
--Call to action: look at generic classification API on DPDK mailing
list and provide review to ensure ease of integration with OvS-DPDK
--http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-November/050262.html

* Document for hwol use cases doc created

* Rony working on v3 of HW offload dpif
--Concern on usability of tc flower for user space
--Will add comments to patch when released by Rony

* Implement lazy DPDK init (Aaron Conole)
--RFC patch for this on mailing list
--Daniele will repost as patch, Aaron will ACK

* DPDK contribution to remove aborts from DPDK initialisation method
--Aaron looking at this

* Documentation - add information on list of supported distributions
(Bhanu Bodireddy)
-- Waiting until docs formatting changes are made

* Aaron changing ofp_print routines to write into large table with lots
of headings. Pre-defined format strings to reproduce existing output,
table support for csv, json, etc
--Useful for OvS-DPDK users: OpenStack devs
--Ben also working on debuggability improvements

* Investigate optimisation/removal of vHost retries for performance
(Kevin Traynor)
--Preceded by vHost PMD and indirect descriptors

* Optimise SW Conntrack perf (Mark Gray)
--Bhanu and Antonio will start looking at this start of 2017
HW acceleration:

* Share use cases where conntrack is not needed (John Fastabend)
--Would like to get list of use cases not requiring conntrack
--Eg firewall in VM, conntrack is done in VM, GiLAN, Mobile edge compute

Kevin.

On 12/13/2016 05:47 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> You have been invited to the following event.
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> Title: OVS-DPDK bi-weekly meeting
> Hi All,
> 
> At the OVS-DPDK Meetup after the OVS conference, it was suggested to
> have a regular sync up call between people working on OVS-DPDK. Let's
> keep it to status/plans and keep the technical discussion for the
> mailing list.
> 
> I'd suggest for a first meeting, we collect status for the items
> identified at the meetup
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2016-November/325217.html
> and discuss any new plans or opens anyone wants to talk about.
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