On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:08:32AM +0300, Kamal Heib wrote: > > > On 5/15/19 9:15 PM, Yuval Shaia wrote: > > 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). > > That person is me. > Leon: Is Mellanox willing to join too? I have no mandate to publicly commit to any future plans on behalf of my employer. Thanks
