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> > It would be nice to have an informal discussion / unconference session
> > before the actual summit session on SR-IOV. During the previous IRC
> > meeting, we were really close to identifying the different use cases.
> > There was a dangling discussion on introducing another level of
> > indirection between the vnic_types exposed via the nova boot API and how
> > it would be represented internally. It would be ideal to have these 2
> > discussions converged before the summit session.
> 
> What would be the purpose of doing that before the session? IMHO, a
> large part of being able to solve this problem is getting everyone up to
> speed on what this means, what the caveats are, and what we're trying to
> solve. If we do some of that outside the scope of the larger audience, I
> expect we'll get less interaction (or end up covering it again) in the
> session.
> 
> That said, if there's something I'm missing that needs to be resolved
> ahead of time, then that's fine, but I expect the best plan is to just
> keep the discussion to the session. Afterwards, additional things can be
> discussed in a one-off manner, but getting everyone on the same page is
> largely the point of having a session in the first place IMHO.

Right, in spite of my previous response...looking at the etherpad there is nothing there to frame the discussion at the moment:

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/juno-nova-sriov-support

I think populating this should be a priority rather than organizing another session/meeting?

Steve