June 2018 - people - netdevconf.info

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by Jamal Hadi Salim 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Please ignore this email cheers, jamal

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by Jamal Hadi Salim 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

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0x12: Bronze sponsor! Secunet
by Jamal Hadi Salim 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

We are pleased to announce secunet as a bronze sponsor. Thank you secunet for your continued support of the netdev conference. More information: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/news.html?bronze-sponsor-secunet cheers, jamal

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0x12: Bronze sponsor! Secunet
by Jamal Hadi Salim 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

We are pleased to announce secunet as a bronze sponsor. Thank you secunet for your continued support of the netdev conference. More information: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/news.html?bronze-sponsor-secunet cheers, jamal

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0x12: Moonshot talk! Composing and configuring complex network interfaces on NICs that contain a switch
by Jamal Hadi Salim 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

New Moonshot talk accepted! With the emergence of switchdev as the canonical NIC-switch representation comes the view that we need to expose each switch port as a singular netdev. There is, however, an impedance mismatch between that model and a few important use cases. Take for example the need to scale performance of high speed ports; where a reasonable approach is to spread a single NIC-switch port's traffic across multiple PCIe devices. A single netdev representation doesnt cut it for that scenario. There are other use cases of which involve hierarchies of VMs/containers where more of these issues emerge - for these use cases there have been discussions to use 2 or 3 netdev layers; however, even there some challenges emerge. Anjali Singhai Jain and Sridhar Samudrala make the arguement that the switchdev port representor as is is not the best fit for these use cases. In this talk they are putting forth a proposal that they feel will cater to various use case needs while maintaining strong control over the resources proposed by the switchdev model. More info at: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?composing-and-configuring-comp… cheers, jamal

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0x12: Workshop! Open Linux Network Operating System for switch ASICs
by Jamal Hadi Salim 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

New workshop accepted. Roopa Prabhu will chair a discussion on Open NOS for ASICs. Various topics on Linux support for switch ASICs will be discussed: - New hardware support - Hardware Resource management updates - Scaling routing fib and bridge forwarding database - Building Network virtualization solutions: E-VPN - Network Configuration Management, Debugging and troubleshooting - Futures More info at: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/news.html?workshop-roopa-prabhu-open-linux-… cheers, jamal

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0x12:Keynote Speaker - Van Jacobson
by Jamal Hadi Salim 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

We are pleased to announce our Netdev 0x12 keynote speaker: Van Jacobson For most people involved in the networking world, Van will need very little introduction for his work, amongst many, in TCP/IP network performance and scaling of the internet. For the young lads amongst us who may be oblivious of his accomplishments, Van is what you folks typically refer to as a G.O.A.T(Greatest Of All Time) and some of us would refer as a living legend[1]. A few of his accomplishments are listed on his Internet Hall of Fame Induction bio: https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/van-jacobson This announcement space is too small for us to enumerate his many accomplishments and current passions - but we wanted to highlight one buzzword in particular: You would not have EBPF today if Van was not there[2]. At the moment Van is involved, at Google, in a passion of his - Network Performance Scaling. Having Van at this conference is both a privilege and an honor as he has seen a lot of ideas take wing from the early days of the internet to the specialized roles around Data Center, Web, IOT and more that we see today. We wish to learn from this sage. To paraphrase European Communication Magazine[3]: "When Van Jacobson has something to say, people listen." And Van has something he wants to say to us at Netdev conf 0x12: We need to teach Network Interface Cards about time. What kind of surgery do we need on the kernel NIC interfaces? What kind of features do NIC vendors need to provide? Come and listen to Van. cheers, jamal [1]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/living%20legend [2]http://www.tcpdump.org/papers/bpf-usenix93.pdf [3]https://www.eurocomms.com/features/analysis/8238-could-content-centric-ne…

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0x12: First Platinum sponsor! HAProxy Technologies
by Jamal Hadi Salim 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

We are pleased to announce our first Platinum sponsor, HAProxy Technologies! Thank you HAProxy Technologies - your kindness is what makes Netdev conf happen. We are grateful not just to your sponsorship but also for all the contributions made by your organization to keeping Linux Networking on the map! More information: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/news.html?platinum-sponsor-haproxy cheers, jamal

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0x12: Moonshot talk! Restructuring Endpoint Congestion Control
by Jamal Hadi Salim 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

New accepted talk. From the same folks at MIT who brought you the idea of Congestion Manager (Linux being able to plugin different congestion control algorithms) comes an exciting(my emphasis!) idea to bring even more modularity into Linux TCP. CM concepts that were harder to put into the kernel are now possible. Akshay Narayan et al discuss Congestion Control Plane (CCP). CCP is a new way of separating sender side TCP into control (sitting in user space) and datapath (sitting in the kernel). Control state from the kernel is used by algorithms in user space. User space algorithms use this information to control the kernel’s congestion window or pacing rate. The talk will describe the details of the design principles used, kernel refactoring made, libccp which exposes user API, and experimental results from the implementation. More info at: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/news.html?talk-akshay-narayan-et-al-restruc… cheers, jamal

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0x12: Nuts-n-Bolts Workshop! Netfilter
by Jamal Hadi Salim 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Pablo Neira Ayuso will chair a mini netfilter working session with face to face discussions on different netfilter topics. More info: https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?netfilter-mini-workshop cheers, jamal

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