13:03:38 <mdgray> #startmeeting Weekly Open vSwitch for NFV meeting (March 21st 2016) 13:03:38 <collabot> Meeting started Mon Mar 21 13:03:38 2016 UTC. The chair is mdgray. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 13:03:38 <collabot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 13:03:38 <collabot> The meeting name has been set to 'weekly_open_vswitch_for_nfv_meeting__march_21st_2016_' 13:03:42 <simona_> #info Simona Coppola 13:03:48 <mdgray> #topic Roll Call 13:03:55 <tfherbert> #info Tom Herbert 13:04:02 <mdgray> #info Mark Gray 13:05:15 <simona_> #agenda 13:05:28 <simona_> Discuss OVS Peformance 13:06:46 <mdgray> #chair simona_ 13:06:46 <collabot> Current chairs: mdgray simona_ 13:07:49 <simona_> # Topic Discuss OVS performance 13:08:32 <mdgray> #link https://wiki.opnfv.org/_media/ovs_performance_considerations.pdf 13:08:48 <simona_> #Topic Discuss OVS Performance 13:09:19 <simona_> #Action Billy and Simona to move meeting next Monday as its a holiday here in Ireland 13:11:20 <simona_> #Info Mark presenting OVS Performance slides 13:22:03 <simona_> # info depending on your performance requirements for your Use case you should be able to tune to get better performance 13:22:22 <simona_> #info depending on your performance requirements for your Use case you should be able to tune to get better performance 13:23:09 <simona_> #info concern it could be tricky trying to tune at this level for users 13:29:33 <simona_> #info look at potential of prioritizing flows 13:30:19 <simona_> #brought up by AL as an enhancement to OVS 13:30:39 <simona_> #info brought up by AL as an enhancement to OVS 13:31:53 <simona_> #info discussed changing it in the low level dataplane 13:32:23 <simona_> #info need to figure out the best way of doing it 13:34:19 <simona_> #info how do we document/define requirements for performance? 13:34:42 <tfherbert> #info characterize perf reqirements according to the type of forwarding rather then the use cases? 13:35:04 <simona_> #info Mark suggested we look to Use Cases 13:35:19 <simona_> #info reference more detail in slides 13:40:11 <simona_> #info can anyone (operators) help us with gathering some of the information we need to help define our requirements 13:44:15 <simona_> #info suggested we work with VSPERF for test performance data, once we have results we can follow on with actions 13:46:17 <simona_> #info mark has offered to represent the slides again for anyone who might have missed today 13:49:05 <mdgray> #info Feel free to contact me mark dot d dot gray intel dot com 13:50:30 <simona_> #info starting point for C release use VSPERF to do more specific use case testing as we learn more then we can make better decisions 13:54:31 <simona_> #info what tools are at our disposal that can help evaluate the tables suggested in the slides 13:55:20 <simona_> #info need to have the ability to test use cases we are proposing 13:56:39 <simona_> #end meeting 13:56:52 <simona_> #endmeeting