Re: CFP: 4th RDMA Mini-Summit at LPC 2019

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 07:36:26PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 06:30:51PM +0300, Yuval Shaia wrote:

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On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 03:23:21PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:

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This is a call for proposals for the 4th RDMA mini-summit at the Linux
Plumbers Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, which will be happening on
September 9-11h, 2019.

We are looking for topics with focus on active audience discussions
and problem solving. The preferable topic is up to 30 minutes with
3-5 slides maximum.

Abstract: Expand the virtio portfolio with RDMA

Description:
Data center backends use more and more RDMA or RoCE devices and more and
more software runs in virtualized environment.
There is a need for a standard to enable RDMA/RoCE on Virtual Machines.
Virtio is the optimal solution since is the de-facto para-virtualizaton
technology and also because the Virtio specification allows Hardware
Vendors to support Virtio protocol natively in order to achieve bare metal
performance.
This talk addresses challenges in defining the RDMA/RoCE Virtio
Specification and a look forward on possible implementation techniques.

Yuval,

Who is going to implement it?

Thanks

It is going to be an open source effort by an open source contributors.
Probably as with qemu-pvrdma it would be me and Marcel and i have an
unofficial approval from extra person that gave promise to join (can't say
his name but since he is also on this list then he welcome to raise a
hand).
I also recall once someone from Mellanox wanted to join but not sure about
his availability now.

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This year, the LPC will include netdev track too and it is
collocated with Kernel Summit, such timing makes an excellent
opportunity to drive cross-tree solutions.

BTW, RDMA is not accepted yet as a track in LPC, but let's think
positive and start collect topics.

Thanks