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#opnfv-meeting: Weekly Technical Discussion
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Meeting started by bh526r at 13:02:40 UTC.  The full logs are available
at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/opnfv-meeting/2018/opnfv-meeting.2018-07-26-13.02.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* Roll Call  (bh526r, 13:02:48)
  * Bin Hu  (bh526r, 13:02:54)
  * Gary Wang  (bh526r, 13:03:01)
  * Brian Skerry  (bjskerry, 13:03:23)
  * Trevor Cooper  (bh526r, 13:05:34)

* KVM4NFV Requirement Gathering  (bh526r, 13:07:30)
  * LINK: https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/kvm  (bh526r, 13:07:46)
  * Gary mentioned that this KVM project has been in maintenance mode
    for 2 years  (bh526r, 13:08:22)
  * Gary and his colleagues, such as Isaku, discussed to make the
    project more active  (bh526r, 13:08:49)
  * and convince his management to invest more resources in this project
    and in OPNFV  (bh526r, 13:09:17)
  * Gary and Isaku have thought about some of the areas to contribute to
    the project such as performance improvement  (bh526r, 13:09:52)
  * and some optimization  (bh526r, 13:10:02)
  * and consider to contribute patches to this project  (bh526r,
    13:10:20)
  * Thus Gary wants to discuss some requirement for this project
    (bh526r, 13:11:44)
  * Brian indicated that one of the issue is the adoption rather than
    spinning a fork  (bh526r, 13:12:13)
  * Gary indicated that some patches may be contributed to OPNFV, and
    some may be submitted to upstream KVM project  (bh526r, 13:14:07)
  * Trevor asked if those are existing patches or new patches  (bh526r,
    13:14:55)
  * In another word, if old patches are not accepted by upstream Linux
    kernel, why new patches?  (bh526r, 13:16:40)
  * Gary indicated that we are looking for ways for kernel to accept our
    patches  (bh526r, 13:17:07)
  * Brian asked if the use case is the real time performance  (bh526r,
    13:17:44)
  * Gary said yes, all existing patches and new patches will be for real
    time feature  (bh526r, 13:18:06)
  * Trevor said that maybe some specifics are needed, such as test
    framework, to show the benefits  (bh526r, 13:20:00)
  * 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)
  * 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)
  * i.e. suggestions from industry and ecosystem  (bh526r, 13:26:57)
  * Brian suggested the direction of container  (bh526r, 13:28:59)
  * 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)
  * Brian also indicated that nevertheless, there is the issue of being
    accepted by upstream kernel community  (bh526r, 13:30:20)
  * 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)
  * Bin suggested that maybe another way is to analyze how KVM
    technology can support container  (bh526r, 13:44:36)
  * Gary said that because of resource constraint, it may be challenging
    to do such analysis  (bh526r, 13:45:10)
  * Gary/team will communicate with existing stakeholders/committers of
    project to get more information  (bh526r, 13:52:40)

* AOB  (bh526r, 13:59:34)
  * None  (bh526r, 13:59:38)



Meeting ended at 13:59:41 UTC.



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