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#opnfv-ovsnfv: Weekly Open vSwitch for NFV meeting (March 7th 2016)
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Meeting started by mdgray at 13:01:14 UTC.  The full logs are available
at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/opnfv-ovsnfv/2016/opnfv-ovsnfv.2016-03-07-13.01.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* Roll Call  (mdgray, 13:01:21)
  * Mark Gray  (mdgray, 13:01:24)
  * Billy O'Mahony  (billyoma, 13:01:39)
  * Simona Coppola  (Simona_, 13:01:48)

* Agenda  (mdgray, 13:05:14)
  * LINK: https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/ovsnfv-meet  (mdgray, 13:05:16)

* C-Release Planning  (mdgray, 13:06:20)
  * Draft C-Release backlog is on Wiki  (mdgray, 13:08:43)
  * Simona will send out an e-mail with the details  (mdgray, 13:10:08)
  * ACTION: Everyone: Review the backlog to give any feedback.  (mdgray,
    13:10:51)
  * ACTION: Tom: Update the Apex feature list with key backlog items and
    to fix any mistakes.  (mdgray, 13:11:21)
  * Tom Herbert  (tfherbert, 13:12:40)
  * Release C milestone 1 is tomorrow  (mdgray, 13:15:48)
  * Simona will drive this with feedback from committers  (mdgray,
    13:16:23)
  * .. and contributers  (mdgray, 13:17:34)
  * Debra Scott has left Linux Foundation and OPNFV - may change a few
    things around release planning.  (mdgray, 13:18:14)

* Priority Path through OVS based on Requirements (Lead: Al Morton - 45
  minutes)  (mdgray, 13:18:39)
  * sorry to see Debra go.  (tfherbert, 13:18:41)
  * Al presenting slides. Mark will put them up on the wiki.  (mdgray,
    13:20:01)
  * LINK: https://wiki.opnfv.org/_media/qos_mechanisms.pdf  (mdgray,
    13:26:46)
  * Al is outlining the current standards related to QoS  (mdgray,
    13:27:29)
  * This highlights the need for QoS  (mdgray, 13:27:48)
  * Many of the requirements are for service quality i.e. end-to-end
    (mdgray, 13:28:31)
  * The eventual allocation to a virtual switch would depend on other
    equipment in the path, speed of light, etc  (mdgray, 13:30:09)
  * Two class prioritization should make sense initially  (mdgray,
    13:38:21)
  * Initial implementation should focus on this.  (mdgray, 13:39:03)
  * Further work could expand on this  (mdgray, 13:39:18)
  * We can assume that traffic is already marked  (mdgray, 13:40:23)
  * We need flexibility as to which field in the packet contains the
    priority information  (mdgray, 13:41:31)
  * This could be programmed in a protocol oblivious way  (mdgray,
    13:42:50)
  * Need to map this to a priority as handled by the switch  (mdgray,
    13:43:30)
  * Tom noted that other vswitches have this type of functionality
    (mdgray, 13:47:06)
  * OVS architecture will make this tricky  (mdgray, 13:49:25)
  * Al has outlined some observations previously made  (mdgray,
    13:49:37)
  * Is OpenFlow control required?  (mdgray, 13:54:40)
  * Perhaps we should do a smaller prototype first?  (mdgray, 13:54:56)
  * Similar control interface in OpenFlow for Packet_In messages
    (mdgray, 13:57:28)
  * Plan to follow up on this discussion at Hackfest (look for Al, Billy
    and Tom having heated discussion in front of a whiteboard!)
    (mdgray, 14:00:53)
  * This needs to be formally documented. If no one else volunteers,
    Mark can do this.  (mdgray, 14:01:56)
  * Need vsperf tests to show the benefit of this  (mdgray, 14:02:13)



Meeting ended at 14:02:28 UTC.



People present (lines said)
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* mdgray (41)
* tfherbert (6)
* collabot` (4)
* Paul_ (1)
* Simona_ (1)
* billyoma (1)



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