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