[openstack-dev] Informal meeting before SR-IOV summit presentation

Robert Li (baoli) baoli at cisco.com
Thu May 8 20:40:01 UTC 2014


This is the one that Irena created:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/pci_passthrough_cross_project


On 5/8/14, 4:33 PM, "Steve Gordon" <sgordon at redhat.com> wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>> > 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




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