13:02:23 #startmeeting Weekly Open vSwitch for NFV meeting (17th August 2015) 13:02:23 Meeting started Mon Aug 17 13:02:23 2015 UTC. The chair is mdgray. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 13:02:23 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 13:02:23 The meeting name has been set to 'weekly_open_vswitch_for_nfv_meeting__17th_august_2015_' 13:02:28 #info mdgray 13:02:36 #info Mike Lynch 13:02:47 #topic Roll Call 13:02:51 #info mdgray 13:03:03 #info Mike Lynch 13:03:32 Good morning 13:04:44 #info Gabor 13:04:54 #info therbert 13:05:12 #topic Agenda Items 13:05:37 #info Release Planning 13:05:56 #info Instructions to add package to an installer 13:06:25 #info SFC 13:06:42 #info and NSH 13:07:03 #topic Release Planning 13:07:22 #info ppt was sent out to Debra Scott 13:08:44 #info sounds right 13:09:05 #info May need to update due to a dependency on Openstack Liberty 13:10:30 #info There is a risk that Brahmaputra will not have Openstack Liberty 13:11:19 #info There may be a dependency on Openstack Liberty for SFC/NSH 13:12:43 #undo 13:12:43 Removing item from minutes: 13:13:17 #info SFC requires NSH aware openvswitch. If we are deploying user space accelerated openvswitch, that would need to be NSH aware as well. 13:17:49 #info Both userspace and kernel space patches for NSH will be released together and will be based on the original Cisco code 13:18:22 #action Mark to update ppt to reflect these dependencies 13:20:05 #info We will also need more detail in the plan which we can do at a later stage when we have more information. 13:20:29 #info Gabor asks if there are any specific hardware dependencies? 13:20:38 #undo 13:20:38 Removing item from minutes: 13:20:52 #info Gabor asks if we have any hardware for this project 13:22:05 #info Mike Lynch: There will be access to the Intel OPNFV lab or the LF lab. 13:23:15 #info Follow the HW requirements of Pharos 13:24:48 #info We may need to book time on lab infrastrucure in order to run tests. 13:26:09 #action Mike Lynch to check the procedure for reserving lab infrastructure. 13:27:47 #info Gabor: What are the supported NICs in the userspace datapath with DPDK? 13:28:23 #info There is a baseline specification for Pharos servers. Inclusing NICs. Those are all DPDK-supported. 13:29:10 #info Gabor: Memory and hugepages are not an issue either. 13:29:28 #topic Instructions to add package to an installer 13:29:56 #link http://lists.opnfv.org/pipermail/opnfv-tech-discuss/2015-August/004178.html 13:32:04 #info: there is a link to the current Pharos HW Specification 13:32:11 #link https://wiki.opnfv.org/pharos/pharos_specification 13:33:16 #info There are few options for installers 13:34:44 #info Mark suggests Fuel is a good option as the documentation, support from the mailing list, it also supports checkboxes for different builds, it also supports a virtual deployment 13:34:57 #info Gabor +1 13:35:28 #info Robin: Is RDO another option? 13:36:31 #info therbert: Franck Brockner gave the exact methodology for doing what we need to do. 13:37:42 #info It might be Michal. The following link outlines this. 13:37:47 #link http://lists.opnfv.org/pipermail/opnfv-tech-discuss/2015-August/004185.html 13:37:50 #info Fuel +1 13:38:35 #info We only need to support one. 13:39:20 #agreed We will target Fuel as the first installer. 13:41:00 #info We need to take the list of tasks highlighted in the above e-mail thread into Jira to indicate what we need to do to complete an integration of userspace ovs into OPNFV 13:43:31 #action Tom will build a description of the work we need to do using the info in this e-mail and populate into Jira. The first purpose of this is really to help direct work so that people can contribute. 13:44:43 #info mailing list with [ovsnfv] tag, individual email or this chat channel for comms 13:45:09 #info Gabor wants to know how to contact this group in general during the week? 13:45:33 #info Let's use e-mail as there is a record of it. 13:46:05 #info Tom we are in different timezones so email is probably better 13:46:11 #topic SFC and NSH 13:46:42 #info SFC requires NSH-aware Open vSwitch 13:47:27 #info This is the first example of a NFV requirement that we need pushed into upstream. 13:49:25 #topic Actions 13:49:57 #info Tom to arrange presentation from someone on Genesis team on integration - Closed via the email chain http://lists.opnfv.org/pipermail/opnfv-tech-discuss/2015-August/004178.html 13:50:48 #topic Other topics 13:51:01 #info Tom: Where do we put the package? 13:52:07 #info Needs to be somewhere accessible by CI 13:52:18 #info +1 13:52:21 #info artifacts is a possibility 13:52:42 #info Mike: How do we formalize the userspace ovs as part of the CI 13:54:03 #action Mike to talk to Octopus project to understand how to do this. 13:55:30 #endmeeting