This is an invitation to participate in the
"Bits, Nibbles, Bytes and Words" event at
Netdev 0x12 on the 12th of July, 2018[1].
If you are working on a project that is open source
or on protocols that are open and tied to Linux
Networking then you are eligible.
We will provide either a table or a spot on a table
for you at the event where you can demo or talk about
your project to attendees and their companions as well
as our sponsors. There will be electrical power and
wifi available at the tables.
This opportunity is offered free of charge to you but we
have limited spots since we need time to prepare.
Send your request to info(a)netdevconf.org
Deadline for submission is June 29th.
cheers,
jamal
[1]https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/news.html?bits-nibbles-bytes-and-words
The Bits, Nibbles, Bytes and Words event will be held
on day 2 of Netdev 0x12 conference at the outdoor
terrace of the Hyatt Regency on July 12th at 6 pm[1]
with a beautiful view of downtown Montreal.
We will be serving cocktails, bits and bites and an
opportunity to network between attendees, sponsors,
and open source linux networking projects. Food bits
will be nibbled on, bitten into, and words (only big
words, the best words!) will be exchanged!
This event is open to all attendees and anyone
accompanying them to the conference (family members,
etc - dont have to be registered). We just ask that
if you are bringing someone just let the registration
desk know when you pick your badge so we can plan
better for food and drinks.
We will have tables for sponsors for marketing and
recruiting. We will also provide a table for any
project that is open to make attendees aware of their
work (we will send out a separate note requesting open
source projects to request for space).
cheers,
jamal
[1]https://montreal.regency.hyatt.com/multimedia/fr/regency/mtlrm/gateway.im…
UDP segmentation was recently introduced to the Linux kernel.
In this talk, Boris Pismenny and Yossi Kupperman present their efforts
towards supporting UDP segmentation offload with existing net devices.
They will talk about limitations they encountered and how they
overcame them. Based on these experiences, Boris and Yossi
have some suggestion on how to improve the Linux networking stack
to generalize their work and make driver development easier.
More info at:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?udp-segmentation-offload
cheers,
jamal
Field applications and IoT require low latency (we are talking
Sub 10 msecs), high throughput and secure, and highly reliable
communications.
Think traffic intersection monitoring, remote surgery, industrial
robotics, etc.
How do we get there on Linux?
Tom Herbert will chair a session which goes into these requirements.
He will try to motivate the discussion with a live physical demo of
traffic intersection using a slot car track.
More info at:
https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?achieving-super-low-latency-fo…
cheers,
jamal
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
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