2020-06-04 SmartNIC SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

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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.

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