13:01:50 <bh526r> #startmeeting Weekly Technical Discussion
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13:02:55 <bh526r> #topic New Project Proposal NFVBench
13:03:40 <acm> #info
13:03:53 <acm> #info Al Morton
13:03:55 <trevor_intel> #info Trevor Cooper
13:03:57 <bh526r> #link https://wiki.opnfv.org/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=nfvbench&title=NFVbench+Project+Proposal
13:04:19 <thaj> #info Thaj
13:04:41 <bh526r> #info It is about a toolkit that allows developers, integrators, testers and customers to measure and assess the L2/L3 forwarding performance of an NFV-infrastructure solution stack (i.e. OPNFV scenario) using a black-box approach.
13:14:44 <bh526r> #info Trevor Cooper asked if to develop some workload or what is the workload?
13:15:41 <bh526r> #info Alec said it can specify a limited number of simple flows at the first stage
13:16:01 <bh526r> #info More complicated flow can be specified later stage
13:16:36 <bh526r> #info Simple traffic pattern today already gave us lots of thing to play with
13:17:18 <bh526r> #info Brian Skerry asked why it cannot be part of Vsperf project
13:17:56 <bh526r> #info Alec said Vsperf programs vswitch directly, but this project uses a different approach, not to program vswitch directly
13:50:40 <bh526r> #info Considering timing and urgency of taking it to TSC for participating in E Release, Frank asked if there is any concern to take it to TSC
13:55:10 <bh526r> #info All agreed to recommend it for TSC Creation review on May 2
13:55:20 <bh526r> #info Meeting adjourned
13:55:25 <bh526r> #endmeeting