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#opnfv-ovsnfv: Weekly Open vSwitch for NFV meeting (March 21st 2016)
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Meeting started by mdgray at 13:03:38 UTC.  The full logs are available
at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/opnfv-ovsnfv/2016/opnfv-ovsnfv.2016-03-21-13.03.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* Simona Coppola  (simona_, 13:03:42)
* Roll Call  (mdgray, 13:03:48)
  * Tom Herbert  (tfherbert, 13:03:55)
  * Mark Gray  (mdgray, 13:04:02)
  * LINK:
    https://wiki.opnfv.org/_media/ovs_performance_considerations.pdf
    (mdgray, 13:08:32)

* Discuss OVS Performance  (simona_, 13:08:48)
  * ACTION: Billy and Simona to move meeting next Monday as its a
    holiday here in Ireland  (simona_, 13:09:19)
  * Mark presenting OVS Performance slides  (simona_, 13:11:20)
  * depending on your performance requirements for your Use case you
    should be able to tune to get better performance  (simona_,
    13:22:22)
  * concern it could be tricky trying to tune at this level for users
    (simona_, 13:23:09)
  * look at potential of prioritizing flows  (simona_, 13:29:33)
  * brought up by AL as an enhancement to OVS  (simona_, 13:30:39)
  * discussed changing it in the low level dataplane  (simona_,
    13:31:53)
  * need to figure out the best way of doing it  (simona_, 13:32:23)
  * how do we document/define requirements for performance?  (simona_,
    13:34:19)
  * characterize perf reqirements according to the type of forwarding
    rather then the use cases?  (tfherbert, 13:34:42)
  * Mark suggested we look to Use Cases  (simona_, 13:35:04)
  * reference more detail in slides  (simona_, 13:35:19)
  * can anyone (operators) help us with gathering some of the
    information we need to help define our requirements  (simona_,
    13:40:11)
  * suggested we work with VSPERF for test performance data, once we
    have results we can follow on with actions  (simona_, 13:44:15)
  * mark has offered to represent the slides again for anyone who might
    have missed today  (simona_, 13:46:17)
  * Feel free to contact me mark dot d dot gray intel dot com  (mdgray,
    13:49:05)
  * starting point for C release use VSPERF to do more specific use case
    testing as we learn more then we can make better decisions
    (simona_, 13:50:30)
  * what tools are at our disposal that can help evaluate the tables
    suggested in the slides  (simona_, 13:54:31)
  * need to have the ability to test use cases we are proposing
    (simona_, 13:55:20)



Meeting ended at 13:56:52 UTC.



People present (lines said)
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* simona_ (26)
* mdgray (6)
* collabot (4)
* tfherbert (2)



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