#opnfv-meeting: Weekly Technical Discussion

Meeting started by bh526r at 13:02:40 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Roll Call (bh526r, 13:02:48)
    1. Bin Hu (bh526r, 13:02:54)
    2. Gary Wang (bh526r, 13:03:01)
    3. Brian Skerry (bjskerry, 13:03:23)
    4. Trevor Cooper (bh526r, 13:05:34)

  2. KVM4NFV Requirement Gathering (bh526r, 13:07:30)
    1. https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/kvm (bh526r, 13:07:46)
    2. Gary mentioned that this KVM project has been in maintenance mode for 2 years (bh526r, 13:08:22)
    3. Gary and his colleagues, such as Isaku, discussed to make the project more active (bh526r, 13:08:49)
    4. and convince his management to invest more resources in this project and in OPNFV (bh526r, 13:09:17)
    5. Gary and Isaku have thought about some of the areas to contribute to the project such as performance improvement (bh526r, 13:09:52)
    6. and some optimization (bh526r, 13:10:02)
    7. and consider to contribute patches to this project (bh526r, 13:10:20)
    8. Thus Gary wants to discuss some requirement for this project (bh526r, 13:11:44)
    9. Brian indicated that one of the issue is the adoption rather than spinning a fork (bh526r, 13:12:13)
    10. Gary indicated that some patches may be contributed to OPNFV, and some may be submitted to upstream KVM project (bh526r, 13:14:07)
    11. Trevor asked if those are existing patches or new patches (bh526r, 13:14:55)
    12. In another word, if old patches are not accepted by upstream Linux kernel, why new patches? (bh526r, 13:16:40)
    13. Gary indicated that we are looking for ways for kernel to accept our patches (bh526r, 13:17:07)
    14. Brian asked if the use case is the real time performance (bh526r, 13:17:44)
    15. Gary said yes, all existing patches and new patches will be for real time feature (bh526r, 13:18:06)
    16. Trevor said that maybe some specifics are needed, such as test framework, to show the benefits (bh526r, 13:20:00)
    17. Gary said that we were focusing on real time, and we want to hear from community if there are more requirement (bh526r, 13:23:57)
    18. In current project, we were focusing on analyzing the bottleneck and improving the performance. We are looking for some new requirement at overall NFV level (bh526r, 13:26:14)
    19. i.e. suggestions from industry and ecosystem (bh526r, 13:26:57)
    20. Brian suggested the direction of container (bh526r, 13:28:59)
    21. Gary said that the project focused on kernel space, and if there are container requirement, they would be happy to address it and support it (bh526r, 13:29:50)
    22. Brian also indicated that nevertheless, there is the issue of being accepted by upstream kernel community (bh526r, 13:30:20)
    23. Trevor suggested to write a proposal as if a new project, and give people the insight of the real scenario that shows the benefit (bh526r, 13:35:49)
    24. Bin suggested that maybe another way is to analyze how KVM technology can support container (bh526r, 13:44:36)
    25. Gary said that because of resource constraint, it may be challenging to do such analysis (bh526r, 13:45:10)
    26. Gary/team will communicate with existing stakeholders/committers of project to get more information (bh526r, 13:52:40)

  3. AOB (bh526r, 13:59:34)
    1. None (bh526r, 13:59:38)


Meeting ended at 13:59:41 UTC (full logs).

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