OVS-DPDK Unicycle - Meetings

This is the joint weekly meeting call for OVS-DPDK BP Integration and feature project call - Weekly on Wednesday 07:00-08:00 AM PT (16:00 - 17 PM CET)

Meeting leads

@Georg Kunz OVS-DPDK feature project Support of OVS-DPDK in Airship
@Rakesh Bohra OVS-DPDK integration project OVS-DPDK Unicycle Blueprint Project

Meeting Details

This meeting has been merged to become the NC Rover/Unicycle/OVS-DPDK weekly meeting: Monthly Meeting Notes for Unicycle/Rover/OVS-DPDK
Weekly on Monday 09:00-10:00 CST (14:00 - 15:00 UTC)
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android (Zoom bridge): https://zoom.us/j/367421865

Minutes of Meeting

2019-05-15
- Participants
  - Rakesh,Andrew,Georg,Roddric,Indu,Jan-Erik,Marinko,Rihab,Tina
- Integration Project Status
2019-05-08
- Participants
  - Rakesh,Andrew,David,Georg,Roddric,Indu,Rihab,Deepak
- Integration Project status
  - Rebuild Unicycle Genesis node but failed . Troubleshooting ongoing.
  - Andrew will attempt redeployment
  - Marinko can help with troubleshooting and investigating the logs
- Feature Project Status
  - Patches deployment worked in virtual Airship Env
  - Rihab is looking into integrating the OVS-DPDK into the Akraino NC unicycle BP
2019-05-01
- No meeting due to Public holiday
2019-04-24
- Participants
  - Indu, Rihab, Andrew, Jan-Erik, Georg, Roddric, David
- Feature project status
  - patches under review and slowing receiving +1s from the community
  - see: https://review.opendev.org/#/q/owner:%22Georg+Kunz+%253Cgeorg.kunz%2540ericsson.com%253E%22+topic:ovsdpdk
  - support of LAG: not a hard requirement for R1 release, but to be considered in the future (stretch goal)
    - to be investigated: how is LAG handled in a SR-IOV setup?
    - to be considered: if DPDK does not use LAG, then we might need to adapt the switch config when switching between data base technologies
- Integration project status
  - Unicycle SR-IOV baseline deployment ongoing
  - Jenkins peering: Indu working on the jjb job definitions

2019-04-17
- Participants
  - Rakesh Bohra, Marinko, Indhu,Roddric,Indu,David,Rihab
- Integration project status
- Feature Project Status

2019-04-10
- Meeting cancelled as team was busy with setup & installation of Regional Controller
- Follow-up meeting scheduled.

2019-04-02
- Participants
  - Rakesh Bohra, Marinko, Indhu,Roddric,Cheng,Jan-Erik
- Team Update
  - Rihab Banday has joined the team to contribute OVS-DPDK development
  - Cheng Li from Intel offered help to contribute to OVS-DPDK development
  - Georg Kunz is on parental leave for next 3 weeks.
- Validation lab status
  - Hardware is received and is being racked and stacked.
  - Roddric will send the LLD for further review
  - setting up account to access Jenkins LF account. Marinko is driving this
  - Integration of Jenkins Peer will start as soon as LF account to access LF jenkins is in place.
- Feature project status
  - Support of OVS-DPDK in Airship has been updated to reflect the latest state

2019-03-27
- Meeting time
  - we agreed to anchor this meeting at 7 am pacific starting from next week onwards to avoid collision with the BP validation project call.
  - AP Georg: modify Zoom meeting and update Akraino calendar
- Feature project status
  - Support of OVS-DPDK in Airship has been updated to reflect the latest state
  - BP: real-time edge cloud
- Validation lab status
  - Hardware
    - Racked and stacked end of next week
  - Jenkins deployment status and security
    - AP Rakesh: involve Marinko Caturic in the Jenkins deployment activities
    - Andrew and Rakesh will follow up on the Jenkins requirements for our lab on tomorrow's TSC call
- Review of Akraino dependencies
  - AP Indu: document your findings in suitable place in Akraino (JIRA, wiki)
  - AP Georg: provide a list of input parameters which must be fed from Akraino to the helm charts (via Airship)
- AOB
  - none
2019-03-20
- Airship upstream contribution status
  - Pending reviews: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:%22Georg+Kunz+%253Cgeorg.kunz%2540ericsson.com%253E%22+topic:ovsdpdk
  - AP Georg: check with Nokia if our ovs-dpdk work is relevant for them
- Validation lab status
  - Jenkins server / lab connectivity requirements
    - We requested input from the CI/CD sub-committee. Feedback is pending.
    - AP Roddric: deploy Jenkins peer based on documentation provided by Indu
  - Hardware delivery pending
- Akraino dependencies
  - Currently identified dependendies
    - Extend portal to allow for selecting DPDK instead of SR-IOV
    - redfish: hardware config, genesis build
    - yaml_build: translation of config to Airship config, launches Airship
  - AP Indu: identify required changes in Akraino components
- Demo booth at ONS
  - Information material for all Demos
  - Template: https://wiki.akraino.org/download/attachments/6129856/LF%20Edge%20Presentation%20Template.pptx?version=1&modificationDate=1553011103000&api=v2

2019-03-13
- Release status
  - the release has been moved to May 31
- Meeting logistics
  - Current meeting is anchored at 16 CET
  - Agree: keep it like this for the time being
  - AP Rakesh: Add joint meeting to blueprint calendar
    - Community Meetings & Calendar
- Validation lab status
  - Pod hardware has been ordered
  - Setting up Jenkins server is in progress
  - AP Indu: provide some documentation on how to set up the Jenkins peer in the lab
- Airship upstream contribution status
  - ovs-dpdk feature under development https://review.openstack.org/#/c/626894/
  - review comments suggest to split functionality between ovs and neutron

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