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

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:08:32AM +0300, Kamal Heib wrote:
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> 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