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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’d rather go for a preliminary meeting at the summit – but am open to a webex on Friday if that would make more sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bob<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Irena Berezovsky [mailto:irenab@mellanox.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 10 April 2013 05:47<br><b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List<br><b>Cc:</b> Ian Wells (iawells@cisco.com) (iawells@cisco.com)<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [openstack-dev] Further SR-IOV / PCI passthrough discussion?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I agree that we need to discuss the use cases and gain understanding of the separation of concerns for involved components such as virtualization driver, compute scheduler , virtual network provisioning service (Quantum), etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think it worth to get another discussion before the sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Both alternatives, webex and preliminary meeting at the summit are fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Irena<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ian Wells [<a href="mailto:ijw.ubuntu@cack.org.uk">mailto:ijw.ubuntu@cack.org.uk</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 10, 2013 5:58 AM<br><b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [openstack-dev] Further SR-IOV / PCI passthrough discussion?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Subsequent to last week's PCI passthrough meeting, does anyone care to talk any further about it? <br><br>I've had some interest in talking over use cases for passthrough as a driver to discuss what features we might want (quite justified, since the last discussion was pretty low level, and based on my and others' experiences in developing for passthrough). I've also had someone reach out from the Xen camp about passthrough for Xen - which comes as no surprise but does indicate that whatever we do should have a clean interface at the virtualisation driver level.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>We could<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- talk further on a webex<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- have a birds of a feather meeting at the summit prior to the session-and-a-half that we have scheduled<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>- leave the presenters to deal with the information we've gathered so far about passthrough and have our further conversations during the sessions themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>I would say it depends on whether we want a detailed proposal for work (interfaces, units of work, timelines) to be presented in the sessions or whether we would prefer to have the discussions then and deal with the plan of work afterward.<br><br>Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Regards,<br>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ian.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>