2020-06-04 SmartNIC SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes:  2020-06-03 SmartNIC SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes
• Review of consolidated proposal
• Project structure
• AOB

Minutes

• Encourage active participation in updating the respective googledocs templates.
• 5G status page added due to NTT interest in K8S on 5G.
• Targets added to assist with focus of project
• No specific priority for hyperscalers, enterprise,telecoms,oems - priority is relevant to own requirements
• Promoting a minimum A72 core level - or better, such as Neoverse.
• Encourage standards compliance/development
• Innovate beyond conventional ToE offloading
• Maciek confirms agreement with high-level targets with preference to Neoverse or better.
• Oversight that Cisco hadn't been listed - will be added.
• Grant provided progress on Standards document. Further input requested from all project members. Redfish (successor to IPMI but JSON styled) is a particular focus.
• Software model, in parallel with SmartNIC hardware testing. Building on the SBSA QEMU model. Current software limitation is lack of support for two different CPU architectures running within same environment.
• SW model, use openbmc
• Maciek asked about I/O regarding both the network and PCIe interfaces to correctly simulate host and NIC slot in terms of packetflow. Currently represented in slide diagram. Graphic ideally should have greater detail.
• Alternatives to VirtIO could be MemIF or VMXNet. Cisco would like to see optimisation of MemIF via FD.IO project.
• Grant looking to see what optimisations have been done with MemIF across PCIe or CXL? (Cisco talking to Han@Arm about it)
• Lifecyle & Security commented on yesterday's call.
• No update for storage.
• Dataplane section renamed to Network.
• Maciek commented that no updates/comments have been added to the proposal. All members expected to contribute.
• Resourcing constraint highlighted.
• Linaro to provided details of project structure/fees in the initial 1:1 calls.
• Timeline reviewed.

Action Items

• @ name action item here //dd-mm-yyyy  
• ALL - Work on proposals
• Paul Isaac's (Deactivated) Distribute slides prior to meetings  
• Grant Likely Server Ready Standards
• Former user (Deleted) Shashi Mallela (Deactivated) Software model development
• Al Stone - LifeCycle
• Sam Fuller - Security
• Li Wan Donna Yasay  - Storage
• Maciek Konstantynowicz - Network
• Former user (Deleted) - 5G
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