#opnfv-cperf: cperf

Meeting summary

1. 1. Yuanwen of ONF testing and interop group will give presentation to CPerf about their activities, discussion about how we can collaborate (dfarrell07, 18:16:16)
   2. Daisy is with Ixia, co-chair of ONF testing and interop group (dfarrell07, 18:20:23)
   3. Goal is to accelerate testing efforts, current focus is on OpenFlow (dfarrell07, 18:21:21)
   4. Various parties involved, vendors and users (dfarrell07, 18:21:34)
   5. Frequent plugfest and appfest to do interop (dfarrell07, 18:23:32)
   6. Developing and promoting OF benchmarking methods (dfarrell07, 18:23:49)
   7. OF benchmarks are split into switch and controller (dfarrell07, 18:24:08)
   8. dfarrell07 asks about this ONF benchmark work vs IETF work we've seen before (dfarrell07, 18:25:42)
   9. Daisy says IETF is more general, ONF work is really focused on OF (dfarrell07, 18:26:22)
   10. Al confirms that IETF work is trying to be general on the SB (dfarrell07, 18:27:31)
   11. mgkwill asks about switch side of benchmarking, Intel has been thinking about that recently, Maracus is wondering status/progress of that work, how best to profile OVS/similar (dfarrell07, 18:29:10)
   12. Daisy says switch work is in draft format, have test cases contributed from test tool vendors, pretty hard to fix methodology that can apply to many switches but agreement about focus on OF (dfarrell07, 18:30:25)
   13. ONF work trying to focus on use cases, to get around huge diversity of SBs controllers can support, to fix some factors and get comparisons between implementations (dfarrell07, 18:32:30)
   14. OF 1.3 is in scope, other SBs and NBs are not (dfarrell07, 18:33:10)
   15. First big category of bench marking is OF channel, second is flow setup, third is data plan failure recovery (dfarrell07, 18:34:38)
   16. mgkwill asks about support for these tests with Ixia, they have some 1.0 stuff but 1.3 is under dev, should have some stuff by end of year (mgkwill has Ixia boxes he wants to use for this) (dfarrell07, 18:35:46)
   17. LuisGomez asks about how they will do proactive programming testing if they don't want to include NB in scope (dfarrell07, 18:36:20)
   18. Seems like tool itself would need to live in controller (like we do with ODL blaster tests) (dfarrell07, 18:37:32)
   19. LuisGomez points out that in ODL, OF Plugin doesn't know things about paths, so some of these tests would test app in ODL vs OF Plugin (dfarrell07, 18:38:38)
   20. Daisy says goal is to fix as much app-stuff as possible, isolate SB factors to compare better (dfarrell07, 18:39:08)
   21. LuisGomez says that apps that manage paths will have different behaviors, not super clear how to standardize/fix that (deeper dive required to answer imho) (dfarrell07, 18:40:26)
   22. LuisGomez says metrics make sense overall (dfarrell07, 18:40:45)
   23. LuisGomez is very interested in how to implement these tests in a cluster, which controller to address, etc (dfarrell07, 18:41:58)
   24. Lots of good ways to collaborate it seems, both in terms of auditing/feedback about test specs/standards and implementing them in actual running test in OPNFV CI (dfarrell07, 18:49:18)
   25. Daisy is encouraged to continue joining calls if she wishes, or at least join sometimes to give us updates about this progress (dfarrell07, 18:49:51)
   26. Daisy will send slides and maybe pre-release paper to dfarrell07 and LuisGomez, who will send to others (dfarrell07, 18:50:12)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. dfarrell07 (31)
2. collabot (4)
3. LuisGomez (1)
4. mgkwill (0)
5. jamoluhrsen (0)