2020-05-28 SmartNIC SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes
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Attendance
Steering Committee Members
Name | Present
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| Alternate | Present
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Paul Isaac's, Linaro |
| Graeme Gregory | ||
Grant Likely, ARM |
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Member Guests
Name | Present |
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Sean Varley, Ampere | |
Jack Liu, ARM | |
Kshitij Sudan, ARM | |
Duberly Mazuelos, ARM | |
Tina Tsou, ARM | |
Jie Zhao, Baidu | |
David Berry, Broadcom | |
Yuanliang Wang, ByteDance | |
Xian Liu, ByteDance | |
Loic Minier, Canonical | |
Junfen Li, China Mobile | |
Qihui Zhao, China Mobile | |
Xuan Jia, China Mobile | |
Yihui Wang, China Mobile | |
Yourong Ban, China Mobile | |
Sheng Wang, China Mobile | |
Jerome Tollet, Cisco | |
Maciek Konstantynowicz, Cisco | |
Tomas Fredberg, Ericsson | |
Li Wan, Futurewei | |
Jonathan Cameron, Huawei | |
Steve Poole, LANL | |
Prasun Kapoor, Marvell | |
Satananda Burla, Marvell | |
Sid Karkare, Marvell | |
Gil Bloch, Mellanox | |
Gil Shainer, Mellanox | |
Stephen Hemminger, Microsoft | |
Sowmini Varadhan, Microsoft | |
Jarmo Hillo, Nokia | |
Yasuhiro Ohara, NTT | |
S. Ezaka, NTT | |
Jaswinder Singh, NXP | |
Sam Fuller, NXP | |
Al Stone, Red Hat | |
Rashid Khan, Red Hat | |
Andrew Younge, Sandia | |
Matthew Curry, Sandia | |
Whit Schonbein, Sandia | |
Greg-Scott Levy, Sandia | |
Ryan Grant, Sandia | |
Bill Mills, TI | |
Andrei Warkentin, VMWare | |
Donna Yasay, Xilinx | |
Steven Pope, Xilinx | |
Kartik Srinivasan, Xilinx | |
Jamon Bowen, Xilinx |
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Linaro
Name | Present |
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Andrea Gallo | |
Bill Fletcher | |
Jammy Zhou | |
Randy Linnell | |
Mark Orvek | |
David Rusling | |
Shashi Mallela |
Agenda
Previous meeting minutes: 2020-05-27 SmartNIC SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes
Technology proposal review
AOB
Minutes
Summary of US meeting(?)
Action on Linaro to explain the way of working. If interested, let Graeme know and will invite you
About 1 week late on the original schedule for deploying the project.
Should have a table of who proposed initiatives as a quick reference
Next meeting will be a health check on the project in general
Software model - Shashi Mallela, Linaro
Investigations around using two QEMU instances to model the host and the smartNIC connected via virtio
Lifecycle - Al Stone, Red Hat
Still work-in-progress
Waiting for discussion on the mailing list
Different use cases being proposed, eg fixed smartnic firmware vs dynamic workloads being downloaded from the host or infrastructure
Security - Sam Fuller, NXP
Security, key management, encrypted DRAM, etc.
Grant: had a long discussion with Tomas from Ericsson after our project call yesterday, significant overlap between standards and security related to using smartnic as the root of trust and more
Standards - Grant LIkely, Arm
Extend some of the tooling and certifications from server ready to other areas, which are not as complex as servers yet need a compliance program
Standardization of management and firmware fits well here
Had a breakout meeting with Tomas Fredberg from Ericsson yesterday, will publish more in the wiki pages in Collaborate.
Anybody interested in joining this call, please contact Grant/Graeme/Paul or Andrea
Storage - Li Wan, Futurewei
Xilinx interested to collaborate and widen the scope to both initiator and target
Grant and Tomas also discussed the NVMe interface as part of the standards discussions
Maciek: Any interest in NVME-OF?
Grant: Specifically smartNIC to host interface. Can do nvme-of gateway on smartnic. Aim to provide portability on VMs. i.e. can you map an NVME interface to SW defined storage?
Dataplane - Maciek, Cisco
Started filling in a Google Docs: SmartNIC with VPP Data-Plane
It shall be renamed to Networking, not dataplane
These are not use cases anymore rather technical areas
Check out Pensando or AWS Nitrogen, the model is that the fabric is done and all intelligence is at the edge. Not in the TOR switch but completely in the smartNIC → very powerful fully automated proposal
Grant: break down into individual technical pieces. Possibly valuable to have two levels of discussion:
Deployment model and lifecycle
Building blocks (check recording at 35min after the start)
Proposal to organise a break out meeting to flesh out the details yet maintaining the high level view as well, then get back to the project committee with the proposal - best is towards the end of next week or later
Maciek agrees, early the week after would work
Yasu NTT Japan
Open source 5G server with kubernetes smartNIC
How does this align with the existing proposed initiatives?
Grant: this project is about (1) standardization of smartNIC interfaces and (2) use case. The proposed kubernetes use case is very relevant for the latter. Please describe what you would like to see, what is missing for kubernetes to support smartNIC
Yasu: just ramping up, would like to get connected with vendors who are working on this, eg Xilinx or NXP
Grant: Could set up a separate call on this with interested parties
Andrea/Graeme will start an email thread on this