Re: CFP: 4th RDMA Mini-Summit at LPC 2019

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

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

>
> >
> > 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