13:01:14 <mdgray> #startmeeting Weekly Open vSwitch for NFV meeting (March 7th 2016) 13:01:15 <collabot`> Meeting started Mon Mar 7 13:01:14 2016 UTC. The chair is mdgray. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 13:01:15 <collabot`> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 13:01:15 <collabot`> The meeting name has been set to 'weekly_open_vswitch_for_nfv_meeting__march_7th_2016_' 13:01:21 <mdgray> #topic Roll Call 13:01:24 <mdgray> #info Mark Gray 13:01:39 <billyoma> #info Billy O'Mahony 13:01:48 <Simona_> #info Simona Coppola 13:02:55 <Paul_> # info paul kangil Choi 13:04:49 <tfherbert> Where is the meeting? 13:04:53 <mdgray> Its here 13:05:14 <mdgray> #topic Agenda 13:05:16 <mdgray> #link https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/ovsnfv-meet 13:06:20 <mdgray> #topic C-Release Planning 13:08:43 <mdgray> #info Draft C-Release backlog is on Wiki 13:09:50 <mdgray> #info Simon will send out an e-mail with the details 13:09:59 <mdgray> #undo 13:09:59 <collabot`> Removing item from minutes: <MeetBot.ircmeeting.items.Info object at 0x2feed50> 13:10:08 <mdgray> #info Simona will send out an e-mail with the details 13:10:51 <mdgray> #action Everyone: Review the backlog to give any feedback. 13:11:21 <mdgray> #action Tom: Update the Apex feature list with key backlog items and to fix any mistakes. 13:12:40 <tfherbert> #info Tom Herbert 13:15:11 <tfherbert> apex integration is a requirement. sfc enablement is a priority too. 13:15:48 <mdgray> #info Release C milestone 1 is tomorrow 13:16:23 <mdgray> #info Simona will drive this with feedback from committers 13:16:34 <tfherbert> Also functest passing. 13:17:34 <mdgray> #info .. and contributers 13:18:14 <mdgray> #info Debra Scott has left Linux Foundation and OPNFV - may change a few things around release planning. 13:18:39 <mdgray> #topic Priority Path through OVS based on Requirements (Lead: Al Morton - 45 minutes) 13:18:41 <tfherbert> #info sorry to see Debra go. 13:19:24 <tfherbert> Al, please send link to slides after meeting. 13:20:01 <mdgray> #info Al presenting slides. Mark will put them up on the wiki. 13:26:46 <mdgray> #link https://wiki.opnfv.org/_media/qos_mechanisms.pdf 13:27:29 <mdgray> #info Al is outlining the current standards related to QoS 13:27:48 <mdgray> #info This highlights the need for QoS 13:28:31 <mdgray> #info Many of the requirements are for service quality i.e. end-to-end 13:30:09 <mdgray> #info The eventual allocation to a virtual switch would depend on other equipment in the path, speed of light, etc 13:38:21 <mdgray> #info Two class prioritization should make sense initially 13:39:03 <mdgray> #info Initial implementation should focus on this. 13:39:18 <mdgray> #info Further work could expand on this 13:40:23 <mdgray> #info We can assume that traffic is already marked 13:41:31 <mdgray> #info We need flexibility as to which field in the packet contains the priority information 13:42:50 <mdgray> #info This could be programmed in a protocol oblivious way 13:43:30 <mdgray> #info Need to map this to a priority as handled by the switch 13:47:06 <mdgray> #info Tom noted that other vswitches have this type of functionality 13:49:25 <mdgray> #info OVS architecture will make this tricky 13:49:37 <mdgray> #info Al has outlined some observations previously made 13:54:40 <mdgray> #info Is OpenFlow control required? 13:54:56 <mdgray> #info Perhaps we should do a smaller prototype first? 13:57:28 <mdgray> #info Similar control interface in OpenFlow for Packet_In messages 14:00:53 <mdgray> #info Plan to follow up on this discussion at Hackfest (look for Al, Billy and Tom having heated discussion in front of a whiteboard!) 14:01:56 <mdgray> #info This needs to be formally documented. If no one else volunteers, Mark can do this. 14:02:13 <mdgray> #info Need vsperf tests to show the benefit of this 14:02:28 <mdgray> #endmeeting