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2020-05-06 - [CNTT - RM Workstream Master] Agenda and Meeting Minutes

2020-05-06 - [CNTT - RM Workstream Master] Agenda and Meeting Minutes

May 06, 2020

Attendees:

Please add your name in here:

  1. @Kelvin Edmison (Nokia)

  2. @Walter.kozlowski (Telstra)

  3. @Pankaj.Goyal (AT&T)

  4. @Trevor Cooper (Intel)

  5. @Karine Sevilla (Orange)

  6. @Tomas Fredberg (Ericsson) (Ericsson)

  7. @Gergely Csatari (Nokia)

  8. @Toshi Wakayama (KDDI)

  9. @Ahmed El Sawaf (STC)

Special Notes:

  • Given the limited time available, we will focus on identifying issues/actions/next steps, but not solving them right now

  • Weekly RM meetings are intended to

    • Identify owners for new Issues

    • Track open Issues

    • Address technical issues that cannot be resolved online (i.e. resolve stalls)

Agenda:



  • Github issue Status

    • Great work on the final push to M3 milestone.

    • We progressed (submitted or closed) all of the PRs identified for Baldy.

    • We closed all but 7 of the issues that were identified for Baldy.

    • During the Baldy release, we closed 42 issues and 87 PRs total.



  • CNTT Baraque, and next steps for RM

    • Baraque dates are here https://github.com/cntt-n/CNTT/blob/master/doc/tech/release_notes/release_process.md#timeline

    • Currently, they important ones for us are:

      • May 29: M1 (Release Planning/Requirements)

      • Jun 19: M2 (Issue Logging)

      • Sep 14: M3 (Freeze contributions) 

    • CNTT Baraque#ReferenceModel outlines RM goals as:

      • NFG: Stable base for Networking Modelling by May 30. (further work needed to refine during the Baraque release)

      • Better Characterisation of Networking and Storage.

      • Technically make sure RM supports both Containers as well as VMs.

      • Data-centre Tier Services and how to integrate them tin RM.

      • NFG: Add HW Accel capabilities (include SmartNIC)

    • Are there others we would suggest?  



  • Network Focus Group

    • Update on this week's progress



  • Virtual Face-to-face (June 1-4)

    • Scot Steele is requesting topics for sessions, deadline for May 13

    • This date is aligned with the LFN DDF

    • Topics requests should be added the DEPRECATED: June 2020 Virtual Conference - Topic Requests page

    • Topic brainstorming for RM

      • Networking: longer-term plan for integration (Walter, Ahmed)

      • Limitations of OVS relative to OVN/SDN (Ahmed to consider proposing)

      • Edge workstream: accelerator requirements, new profiles, etc (Ahmed to consider proposing)

      • Storage BoF: are there needs for a storage profile? do we have the performance targets set properly? compute-host-attached storage?

Actions:



Minutes:



Discussion about whether to integrate Edge use cases into RM in the Baraque timeline

  • Edge is defining some new profiles that include accelerators (e.g. SmartNICs, FPGAs, needed for vDU use cases)

  • Can begin to have discussion on this in 2-3 weeks regarding how Edge workstream will begin to merge into RM.  RA1 and RA2 will follow later.

    • This is associated to the HW Acceleration topic.

  • Storage discussion: can look to RA-1 with respect to storage requirements, understanding it, and then apply learnings to storage modelling.

    • Can also examine the discussion around a storage-based profile: use cases, etc.