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

Steve Gordon sgordon at redhat.com
Fri May 9 15:44:42 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Li (baoli)" <baoli at cisco.com>
> Subject: Re: Informal meeting before SR-IOV summit presentation
> 
> This is the one that Irena created:
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/pci_passthrough_cross_project

Thanks, I missed this as it wasn't linked from the design summit Wiki page.

-Steve

> 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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Steve Gordon, RHCE
Product Manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Red Hat Canada (Toronto, Ontario)



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