29th June 2017 Next meeting planned for 13th July.
ATTENDEES: Darrell, Jan, Jason, Mechthild, Peter H., Peter S., Finn, Michael, Mark K, Niaz, Billy, Zoltan, Eelco, Bhanu, Ian, Olga, Thomas M., Johan, Frikkie, Kevin. I missed some people also. ======= GENERAL ======= - Test coverage -- Request for which features are being tested so can see where gaps - DPDK 17.05.1 -- Early release of this next week -- Has the vhost fix that was previously discussed -- Thanks to Yuanhan and DPDK team -- virtio-user is included in this release - DPDK 17.08 -- API changes coming in this - OVS 2.8 Key Dates -- May branch a bit later than is documented, TBD. - Patch merging -- TBD on how to make this more efficient - Meeting Day -- Would like to move to Wednesday's to avoid being evening call at start of IL weekend. I will re-arrange after vacation. ==================== PERFORMANCE/FEATURES ==================== - Number of patches affecting performance and bug fixes. -- Bug Fixes -- Didn't hear any reasons why these should not be ready for OVS2.8 dpif-netdev: Fix insertion probability https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/780057/ packets: Do not initialize ct_orig_tuple https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/779696/ packets: Reorganize the pkt_metdata structure.https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/779697/ Remove Rx checksum user config https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/780882/ - New features conntrack : Use Rx checksum offload feature on DPDK ports for conntrack. https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/781255/ Keepalive(RFC-V3) - Quite a big feature, probably one for after OVS 2.8 https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-June/334229.html Tx batching(V2) - Seems close to being ready for merging https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-June/334248.html dpif-netdev: Assign ports to pmds on non-local numa node. - Seems close to being ready for merging https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/782142/ tunneling : Improving tunneling performance by avoiding the recirculation on datapath. - Discussion about how much change these patches make - Needs some follow up when all the relevant people are available https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/776864/ https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/776865/ https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/776866/ https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/776868/ Rxq to pmd assignment - First non-RFC patch posted https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-June/334699.html ================ HARDWARE OFFLOAD ================ - First RFC of design and patches for OVS-DPDK HWOL using DPDK rte_flow API submitted by Michael and Finn - Olga says her team have something similar - will submit shortly and look to collaborate - Some discussion about additional features that would be nice in DPDK rte_flow like VLAN push/pop, count https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-June/334708.html - Work is occurring in OPNFV on APIs for VNF acceleration, e.g. refer to the slides presented during the OPNFV Beijing mini-summit on this topic: https://www.slideshare.net/Open-NFP/data-plane-and-vnf-acceleration-mini-summit ======================= When: Every 2 weeks from 5pm to 6pm BST on Thursday Where: https://bluejeans.com/393834449 https://www.bluejeans.com/numbers Meeting ID: 393834449 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
