> -----Original Message----- > From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:34 AM > To: Hannes Reinecke > Cc: Iyer, Shyam; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; lsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx > foundation.org; dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [Lsf] Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF > > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 16:55 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > On 03/30/2011 04:26 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 16:10 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > >> On 03/30/2011 04:02 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > > >>> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 07:58 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > >>>> No, seriously. I think it would be good to have a separate slot > > >>>> discussing DCB (be it FCoE or iSCSI) and cgroups. > > >>>> And how to best align these things. > > >>> > > >>> OK, I'll go for that ... Data Centre Bridging; experiences, > technologies > > >>> and needs ... something like that. What about virtualisation and > open > > >>> vSwitch? > > >>> > > >> Hmm. Not qualified enough to talk about the latter; I was more > > >> envisioning the storage-related aspects here (multiqueue mapping, > > >> QoS classes etc). With virtualisation and open vSwitch we're more > in > > >> the network side of things; doubt open vSwitch can do DCB. > > >> And even if it could, virtio certainly can't :-) > > > > > > Technically, the topic DCB is about Data Centre Ethernet > enhancements > > > and converged networks ... that's why it's naturally allied to > virtual > > > switching. > > > > > > I was thinking we might put up a panel of vendors to get us all an > > > education on the topic ... > > > > > Oh, but gladly. > > Didn't know we had some at the LSF. > > OK, so I scheduled this with Dell (Shyam Iyer), Intel (Robert Love) and > Emulex (James Smart) but any other attending vendors who want to pitch > in, send me an email and I'll add you. > > James > Excellent. I would probably volunteer Giridhar(Qlogic) as well looking at the list of attendees as some of the CNA implementations vary.. -Shyam ÿô.nlj·Ÿ®‰†+%ŠË±é¥Šwÿº{.nlj·¥Š{±þÇ‹ø¡Ü}©ž²ÆzÚj:+v‰¨þø®w¥þŠàÞ¨è&¢)ß«a¶Úÿûz¹ÞúŽŠÝjÿŠwèf
