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Meeting Minutes for SWAI, 19 November 2009

Present

Glen, Guido, Tatsuya, Bob L, Yiannis, Dave, Brandon, Dan T, Mikio

Reviewed 1.0 Status

• Slicing
  • Brandon reviewing;
  • need Rob S date for FlowVisor
  • Testing needs to try an enqueue action if there is one or more queues
• Config protocol
  • Issue in communication between database and openvswitchd component
  • Long discussion about partitioning of these parts
    • Does the database represent the physical switch or a datapath (virtual switch)
    • Need to clarify our understanding of the high level architecture
  • ETA was 4 days ago; want testing in 11 days; can we do this?
  • Need resource for NOX side scripts to exercise config protocol
• Identified reviewers
• Spec clarifications
  • Identify any matters that require code changes and which should be bumped up
  • Trade-off: Getting it right vs getting it out
  • Goal: Close issues by next Tuesday 11/24

Bob's Demo

A 1000 node OF Network onto a laptop.

• Network research platform
• Virtualization for testing
• Use processes for virtualization and veth interfaces
• >500 Mbps datarates between machines in this demo

Follow-up on previous Action Items

• Have some slicing test results showing sliced traffic distribution (Yiannis) DONE
• Begin/organize review of test framework (David, Guido)
• Need a tee shirt design for OpenFlow 1.0 release. (Glen, Guido, David E)
• Send out e-mail about code reviews and follow up with implementers (Glen)
• Add Done column for NOX in 1.0 status table (Glen)
• Send reminder for NOX features -- fill in ETA column (Glen)
• Add note about kernel implementation in reference tree (Glen) Still to do

Actions

• Begin/organize review of test framework (David, Guido)
• Add note about kernel implementation in reference tree (Glen)
• Send out status email to OF spec (Glen)
• Identify reviewers for each 1.0 feature (Glen)
• Get date from Rob S for slicing flowvisor complete (Yiannis)
• Config protocol:
  • Date from Nicira for code availability for switch side (Guido)
  • Date for Integration of switch side code (Glen)
  • Date from Nicira for Controller side code availability (Guido)
• Organize meeting for testing on or near 12/1: How to test in production (Guido)
• Get NOX ETA for 1.0 features: (Glen)
  • Flow Cookies,
  • Port number for stats,
  • Flow duration,
  • IP TOS matching
• Update 1.0 features table to remove deferred items (Glen)
• Clarify NOX 1.0 wire compatibility availability (Glen/Guido)
• Need a tee shirt design for OpenFlow 1.0 release. (Glen, Guido, David E)