[dpdk-dev] DPDK Events Plan - Current Thinking/Proposal

[St Leger, Jim]

DPDK Community:

The Tech Board has provided great input on their preferences for a Userspace 
event. Some weeks back (I'm late getting the minutes out; my apologies) a small 
team (Bruce, Honnappa, Thomas, Jim, Ashley, Jill, Rachel, and Emily) met to 
discuss the options and come up with a plan. Here's what has been agreed to.

Userspace:
1. Userspace Co-located in Brussels after FOSDEM.
The preference is very strong to have an in-person event, not another hybrid 
event. The consensus was that the community really wants to get together 
in-person, face to face. We discussed whether it would be the week before 
FOSDEM or after. There is a conflicting event the week prior, thus the week 
after was chosen. As of today that would be February 7-8, 2022.

2. What if FOSDEM is Again Virtual?
In the case of FOSDEM being a virtual event for 2022 we will NOT hold Userspace 
after it. Instead we will aim for some time in the early summer, likely June. 
The location is TBD but is likely still somewhere in Europe.

3. What about other DPDK Summit Events?
Our first decision is when to hold the Userspace event. There will not be a 
2021 Userspace event. There will be a 2022 in-person Userspace event. But 
whether it's in February or June is contingent on what FOSDEM does. Once we 
know that outcome we can start planning other events. We will need community 
feedback as to when we should hold an Asia/China event as well as a North 
America event. We will also need input on location preferences.

As of today FOSDEM has reported their event will be February 5-6. But it is not 
clear from their post https://twitter.com/fosdem/status/1447889564874457093 as 
to whether the event will be virtual on in-person. We are seeking more clarity 
from the FOSDEM organizers. If it is in-person then DPDK Summit Userspace will 
be in Brussels on Feb 7-8 (specifics to be determined based on site 
availability, etc.)

We will keep you posted on updates as the situation and planning develops.

Thanks,
Jim

Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 21.08 released

[St Leger, Jim]

Nice work by all! (This release should be called the Olympic Release, out just 
as the Tokyo 2020 games are concluding.)

Now go off and enjoy some well-earned summer holidays. 

Stay safe,
Jim


> On Aug 8, 2021, at 10:47, Thomas Monjalon  wrote:
> 
> A new release is available:
>https://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-21.08.tar.xz
> 
> Summer release numbers:
>922 commits from 159 authors
>1069 files changed, 150746 insertions(+), 85146 deletions(-)
> 
> It is not planned to start a maintenance branch for 21.08.
> This version is ABI-compatible with 20.11, 21.02 and 21.05.
> 
> Below are some new features:
>- Linux auxiliary bus
>- Aarch32 cross-compilation
>- Arm CPPC power management
>- Rx multi-queue monitoring for power management
>- XZ compressed firmware read
>- Marvell CNXK drivers for ethernet, crypto and baseband PHY
>- Wangxun ngbe ethernet driver
>- NVIDIA mlx5 crypto driver supporting AES-XTS
>- ISAL compress support on Arm
> 
> More details in the release notes:
>https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.html
> 
> 
> There are 30 new contributors (including authors, reviewers and testers).
> Welcome to Aakash Sasidharan, Aman Deep Singh, Cheng Liu, Chenglian Sun,
> Conor Fogarty, Douglas Flint, Gaoxiang Liu, Ghalem Boudour,
> Gordon Noonan, Heng Wang, Henry Nadeau, James Grant, Jeffrey Huang,
> Jochen Behrens, John Levon, Lior Margalit, Martin Havlik,
> Naga Harish K S V, Nathan Skrzypczak, Owen Hilyard, Paulis Gributs,
> Raja Zidane, Rebecca Troy, Rob Scheepens, Rongwei Liu, Shai Brandes,
> Srujana Challa, Tudor Cornea, Vanshika Shukla, and Yixue Wang.
> 
> Below is the number of commits per employer (with authors count):
>222 Marvell (22)
>183 NVIDIA (26)
>168 Intel (44)
>100 Broadcom (12)
> 45 OKTET Labs (5)
> 36 Huawei (7)
> 35 Arm (7)
> 29 Red Hat (5)
> 20 Trustnet (1)
> 17 6WIND (3)
> 13 Microsoft (2)
>  8 NXP (4)
>  7 Semihalf (1)
>  5 UNH (2)
>  5 PANTHEON.tech (1)
>  4 Chelsio (1)
>  3 IBM (1)
> 
> Based on Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags, the top non-PMD reviewers are:
>45 Akhil Goyal 
>34 Jerin Jacob 
>21 Ruifeng Wang 
>20 Ajit Khaparde 
>19 Matan Azrad 
>19 Andrew Rybchenko 
>17 Konstantin Ananyev 
>15 Chenbo Xia 
>14 Maxime Coquelin 
>14 David Marchand 
>13 Viacheslav Ovsiienko 
>11 Thomas Monjalon 
> 9 Dmitry Kozlyuk 
> 8 Stephen Hemminger 
> 8 Bruce Richardson 
> 
> 
> DPDK 21.11 will be a big and busy release.
> The new features for 21.11 can be submitted during one month:
>http://core.dpdk.org/roadmap#dates
> Please share your features roadmap.
> 
> Thanks everyone
> 
> 

DPDK Gov Board - My departure and replacement

[St Leger, Jim]

DPDK Community:

I am writing to let you know that I will be leaving my role as the Intel 
representative on the DPDK Governing Board and as the board chair. I have taken 
on a new role, still at Intel, which will bring my work focus in a new 
direction. Robin Giller, whom some of you may know from his work in other open 
source efforts including networking, cloud native, and microservices, will be 
the new Intel gov board rep. Nathan will initiate a call for nominations for a 
new board chair and a subsequent vote as needed. Please welcome and support 
Robin as you have me.

I want to thank the entire community for all of the support and fun over the 
years. I've been involved in the DPDK project from it's embryonic days at Intel 
and the first 2010 release. I watched the community grow. I've been at the 
first and most of the DPDK Summit events which started back in 2014 in San 
Francisco, expanded to Userspace in Dublin, and eventually were held in India 
and China with one in Japan as well. When the community elected to move to 
hosting by The Linux Foundation I was honored to serve as the board chair, a 
role I have had now for more than five years. It's been an incredible privilege 
to serve the community for so long.

I have many cherished memories of working with this incredible community. The 
Userspace events and dynamic, interactive discussions epitomize the very best 
of open source. All voices are heard. All opinions matter. The community comes 
together for the betterment of our work. It doesn't get any better than that. 
Meanwhile, we've created the industry's defacto high performance, userspace 
networking model that is widely adopted and deployed. I leave with great pride 
at all that has been accomplished, predominantly through this amazing community 
of committed engineers and developers. Thank you.

I hope our paths do cross again. I will still be involved in open source 
efforts. Please do keep in touch.

All the very best,
Jim

[dpdk-dev] Merge with 1.4.1??

[St Leger, Jim]

As Stephen noted, Intel has posted our latest Intel DPDK to our site.
The main site is 
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/intel-technology/packet-processing-is-enhanced-with-software-from-intel-dpdk.html
You'll see the code (as referenced below for download   
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/intel-technology/dpdk-source-code.html)
 as well as other supporting documentation.


-Original Message-
From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 11:49 PM
To: dev at dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] Merge with 1.4.1??

What are plans to merge in latest Intel 1.4.1 DPDK?
  
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/intel-technology/dpdk-source-code.html

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 1.8.0 released

[St Leger, Jim]

Fabulous work by all in the community! Thanks Thomas for pushing us along and 
getting it done! It's like an early holiday present :-)

Enjoy the holidays!
Jim

P.S. Sorry if this top-post offends anyone.

-Original Message-
From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 7:30 AM
To: announce at dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 1.8.0 released

A new DPDK release can be downloaded here:
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v1.8.0

For those who prefer using git for updates to the stable releases, the new 
branch "releases" will be updated when a new release is out.

Changelog (main changes since 1.7.1)
- fixes for:
* i211
* ixgbe
* i40e
* virtio
* vmxnet3
* pcap
* kni
* ring API
* bonding
* empty cfgfile
* packet framework table
* l3fwd-vf example
* multi-process example
* Ubuntu
* Fedora
* RHEL/CentOS
* FreeBSD
- enhancements:
* IBM PowerPC support preview
* option to list enabled lcores
* option to set master lcore
* logs rework
* mbuf rework
* TCP segmentation offload
* extended statistics
* default conf for each PMD
* upgrade ixgbe base driver with X550 support
* upgrade i40e base driver
* i40e configurable CRC stripping
* i40evf RSS
* i40e VXLAN
* i40e mac vlan filter
* i40e ethertype filter
* i40e flow director
* i40e link status interrupt
* i40e VMDQ
* Cisco enic PMD
* AF_PACKET PMD
* vmxnet3 performance
* virtio promiscuous
* vhost library
* bonding mode 4 & 5
* power management in KVM guest
* unit test to measure cycles per packet
* distributor example
* skeleton application
* removal of rte_snprintf and RTE_PCI_DRV_MULTIPLE
* some clean-up of EAL
* documentation guides generated with sphinx

The release notes are available online:
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes

Statistics for this release cycle:
712 files changed, 101902 insertions(+), 29849 deletions(-)
54 authors
Thank you to everyone!

We tried to integrate almost all planned features in this release.
But waiting for every feature to be ready, leads to a late delivery.
>From now, the integration cycle will be different because based on deadlines.
This is explained on roadmap page: http://dpdk.org/dev/roadmap#cycle New 
features must be submitted before end of January.
If not properly reviewed and acked on 20th February, feature won't be in 2.0.

For now, let's celebrate this new release!
--
Thomas

[dpdk-dev] Specific NIC for DPDK?

[St Leger, Jim]

You could write a PMD for any NIC. The work is only done for the NICs listed 
here http://dpdk.org/doc/nics
But nothing stopping anyone from using other NICs if they want to write the PMD.

Regards,
Jim

-Original Message-
From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of TSADOK, Shlomi (Shlomi)
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 8:42 AM
To: Thomas Monjalon
Cc: dev at dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Specific NIC for DPDK?

Thanks guys

So basically "only" Intel* and mlx4 are supported? Do I get it right?


Regards
Shlomi


-Original Message-
From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monja...@6wind.com]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 5:39 PM
To: TSADOK, Shlomi (Shlomi)
Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Daniel Kaminsky
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Specific NIC for DPDK?

06/01/2014 14:31, Daniel Kaminsky :
> Currently DPDK supports most of Intel 1Gb and 10Gb NICs. The exact 
> list can be found at lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_dev_ids.h

There are more supported NICs than in rte_pci_dev_ids.h.
Please have a look at the online documentation:
http://dpdk.org/doc/nics

--
Thomas

Re: [dpdk-dev] technical board meeting minutes 2017-01-25

[St Leger, Jim]

Comments inline below.
Jim

-Original Message-
From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 3:14 PM
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: techbo...@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] technical board meeting minutes 2017-01-25

There was a DPDK technical board meeting yesterday.
The goal was to reply questions asked recently in the community.
Most of them originate from the meetings about moving to Linux Foundation.
Here are the minutes.

* Should we change the size of the tech board?
Yes we must increase the number of members to have a better representation of 
the community.
It is reminded that board positions are held by individuals, not companies.
Members can move to a new company and keep their seat as long as they are 
actively involved in the community.

* Should we remove some members?
Panu Matilainen resigned because he is not involved anymore.
This is different of a removal by the board.
However, we must define the removal process. Here it is:
It can be decided to remove a member if there is an approval of 2/3 of the 
whole technical board.
It can be decided either to replace the member, or to redefine the size of the 
board.
[>] Did you decide how the discussion or topic to remove a board member 
ever even comes up to begin with?
[>] For example, does someone propose "I think we should remove so-and-so 
from the TSC/TechBoard" and then the board votes? 
I think this step will be very rare (maybe never), but it's important to know 
how/when the removal process can be initiated and if limited by who? (e.g. can 
anyone in the community suggest to remove someone? Can only TechBoard/TSC 
members suggest to remove someone? What board member behavior would justify 
removal?)

* Should we add new members?
The Linux Foundation draft charter specifies that employees of a single company 
should not occupy more than 50% of board seats.
The technical board feels that this should be reduced to 40%.
So with a board of 8 or 9 members, the maximum for any company is 3.
We have chosen (with global consensus) 3 new members to join the technical 
board.
They will be announced soon when we will have their agreement.
The new board will probably count 9 members.
[>] What is the delay in announcing the new members? 
Does "global consensus" mean within the globe or world of just the 
TechBoard/TSC members, e.g. it needs to be a unanimous vote by the TSC members?
Is this 100% global consensus/unanimous decision process what will be used in 
the future?
If that's the case, what happens if 5 members say yes and 4 say no? The 
candidate is then not added as a new TSC member?

* Should we have a process to renew the board?
There will be some renewal when it will be felt as needed.
We would like to open a session at the next userspace meeting to get some 
feedbacks about the composition of the technical board, and more generally 
about its role.
This annual session at the userspace meeting might be the opportunity to vote 
for the composition of the technical board.
[>] Not to be flippant, but the LF governance discussion and especially 
budget includes line items for funding events such as DPDK Summit Userspace. 
But if we can't get a point of agreement on the budget, get to an agreement on 
membership fees, and recruit enough member companies to the project, then 
future events will be dependent on our ability to raise sponsorship funds 
across the community.  Efforts to do this in the past have only shown support 
from Intel, Red Hat, and Cisco. No other company has yet agreed to help 
financially sponsor any of the Summit events.

* Should we have regular meetings?
We do not want to spend too many time in meetings.
However a short meeting (less than a hour) every two weeks may be relevant.
[>] I assume you are referring solely to the TechBoard/TSC meeting.

* What could be discussed at regular meetings?
Any contributor can ask to add a topic in the agenda by sending an email to 
techbo...@dpdk.org.
The board members will add any topic of interest in the agenda.
If a technical discussion lacks of explanation, details or evidence, it will be 
asked on the mailing list.
If a patch does not receive any or enough comment, we will help to make it 
progressing on the mailing list.
If there is no consensus in a discussion, a decision can be taken by the 
technical board and explained on the mailing list.
If there is nothing to discuss, the meeting will be hopefully really short.

* Should we organize regular public IRC meetings?
It does not scale to have too many participants in a meeting.
In order to keep meetings short, they will be private.
Everybody can discuss on the mailing list.
[>] Are you referring to TSC/TechBoard meetings here too? Or are you 
referring to regular community calls?
If community calls, I disagree and believe there should be a regular community 
project call to discuss any/all issues.  Items that go back and forth many 
times on the mailing list could be resolved i

Re: [dpdk-dev] Raspberry Pi

[St Leger, Jim]

Did you try it?

Have you checked out DPDK-In-A-Box?
https://store.netgate.com/DPDK-2220.aspx

Jim

-Original Message-
From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Michael Williams
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 7:34 AM
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] Raspberry Pi

Does DPDK support the Raspberry Pi?

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Summit Userspace - streaming live

[St Leger, Jim]

If you couldn't make it to the Userspace event we are streaming it live on 
Periscope. 
https://www.periscope.tv/jimstleger

The video quality isn't the best, but maybe some talks are worth listening to. 
The audio quality seems okay. 

The agenda and most of the presentations are posted online. 
https://dpdksummit.com/us/en/events

Once the event is finished high quality video recordings will also get posted. 

Enjoy. 
Jim

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] OPNFV Summit Beijing - DPDK and FD.io MiniSummit - Discount Code

[St Leger, Jim]

DPDK Community:

If you're heading to OPNFV Summit in Beijing next month or thinking of heading 
there you might consider also registering for the joint DPDK and 
FD.io MiniSummit event that will be coincident with the bigger 
summit. You can find additional information here: 
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/opnfv-summit/extend-the-experience/dpdkandfdio

Additionally, the organizers have created a discount code for DPDK community 
members to save them 15% off of the registration fee. When you register use 
promo code DPDKOPNFV17 to receive 15% off your registrations.

Hope to see you there!

Jim

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Governing Board - meeting minutes 03 Dec 2018

[St Leger, Jim]

DPDK Community:

What a great year we've had! The development community continues to raise the 
bar with the biggest ever release in 18.05 and another very big release in 
18.11.  I'm guessing the 19.xx releases will continue the trend as DPDK sees 
increasing adoption and usage across the networking and comms industries.

In 2019 we again hosted four community DPDK Summit events in India, China, 
Ireland, and the USA.  These events continue to bring the community together 
including engineers looking to learn more about DPDK, developers sharing their 
work, and architects using DPDK to transform their networks. These events are 
always a highlight for me seeing all of the innovation and collaboration on 
stage. As always, you can watch recordings of all of the talks at our archived 
events page https://www.dpdk.org/news/past-events/

Below are the summary minutes for the DPDK Governing Board meeting we held in 
San Jose on December 3rd. The governing board meetings typically follow an 
agenda of financial review, marketing activities review, special agenda topic 
discussions, and future plans. This meeting was no different.

Lastly, I want to thank all of you for making the DPDK Project the best open 
source networking project. Thanks to all of your hard work and selfless 
contributions we are moving an industry in a new direction. It's fantastic to 
be part of that effort.

I want to wish all of you the very best holidays. Enjoy some time with your 
family and friends. 2019 is right around the corner. We'll see you at one of 
the DPDK Summit events!

Cheers,
Jim o<|8^D

Jim St. Leger
DPDK Governing Board, Chair

===

DPDK Governing board held meeting on December 3rd, during DPDK Summit North 
America, San Jose. Highlights include:
- DPDK's premier representatives unanimously reiterated their continued 
financial support for DPDK project in the coming year.
- A review of the 2018 budget spending categories and allocations was 
conducted. This information was also shared during the DPDK Summit USA opening 
remarks https://youtu.be/jUqInAZkrnw?t=678.
- The board approved preliminary 2019 operational budget, with decision to 
explore efficiencies with the event series in the 2019 pipeline.
  -DPDK project is looking to expand events into new geographic regions and 
increase its reach in the new year. If you are interested in supporting DPDK 
events, as a sponsor please contact our events team at eve...@dpdk.org
- The DPDK Community lab hosting and support contract has been extended for 
2019. If you are interested in contributing gear or participating in the 
Community lab, contact us at c...@dpdk.org
- DPDK governing board discussed the pros/cons of having the DPDK Project join 
the Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) umbrella project.  There was no vote, and 
there are no current plans to join LFN. However, the board decided to 
re-evaluate possible DPDK LFN participation in Q2 2019. We will continue to 
monitor LFN as it matures and adds additional projects such as Tungsten Fabric.
- The marketing working group will continue to develop marketing plan for 
coming year, looking to highlight the increasing adoption and use of DPDK.
- The DPDK board will explore potential avenues of collaboration and 
partnership with the SPDK (Storage Performance Dev Kit, spdk.io) community.

Join the DPDK community in the upcoming regional summit on March 9th in 
Bangalore India.
CFP: https://www.dpdk.org/event/dpdk-summit-bangalore-2019/

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Project has a New Website !

[St Leger, Jim]

DPDK Community:

Today, we are unveiling an updated version of the DPDK website: 
https://www.dpdk.org
We’ve had community discussions about revamping the website for some time now. 
Moving our community and project into The Linux Foundation enabled us to fund 
and resource this update.  Same URL but easier on the eyes ☺ Please go take a 
look!  

The content on the new site should be familiar as much of it is the same. If 
you want to compare/contrast you can still access the previous website via this 
link: https://old.dpdk.org.  The new site is organized for easier, more 
intuitive navigation while showcasing the breadth of the DPDK community and 
ecosystem. For those who would like a bit more “What’s under the hood?” the new 
site has been built using Wordpress (https://www.dpdk.org) and Hugo 
(https://core.dpdk.org) templates which both improve maintainability and make 
it easier to bring you updated content.  Technical resources are available 
under "DPDK Core."  As always, community members can suggest editorial changes 
or submit patches to improve the site.  That community-driven process has not 
changed.  

This announcement is the first step in the roll out, and we will be refining 
and updating content in the coming weeks.  Please peruse the site and 
familiarize yourself with its layout. If you have any suggestions, comments, or 
feedback on the site or site content, please contact w...@dpdk.org. As with 
everything in our community, more eyes and suggestions will improve our work. 

Revamping the DPDK project website has been a true team effort that could not 
have been accomplished without the help of and iterative feedback from the both 
the Marketing Committee and the Technical Board - thank you!  

Please also be sure to promote the new site with colleagues and peers and on 
social media. And don’t forget to reference our project’s Twitter presence 
@DPDKProject. We'll be issuing a press release on Thursday June 21st regarding 
the DPDK 18.05 release directing readers back to the new site  We feel this PR 
should give DPDK some additional exposure just in time for the DPDK Summit 
China event on June 28th. 

Cheers,
Jim
DPDK Project, Governing Board Chair

[dpdk-dev] Sad News from Intel - Venky Venkatesan

[St Leger, Jim]

Several of you have already heard the very sad news of the passing of our dear 
friend and colleague Venky.  He was "Mr. DPDK" to many, a nod to his invention 
and creation of DPDK about ten years ago (before it was called DPDK.)  Of 
course his footprints across the industry and literally across the globe are 
everywhere. If you know what ATCA is, well, Venky had his hands and inventions 
deeply into the creation of that PICMG spec and many of the first revision 
products. He touched on and gave guidance to projects spanning Linux/netdev, 
DPDK, Intel QuickAssist Technology, BSD stacks, OVS, OPNFV, FD.io, 
all-things-virtualization (KVM, Xen, VMware, Hyper-V, etc.), ETSI, IETF, 
containers, and so many other arenas that my brain can't remember at this dark 
moment.

If you knew him and engaged him, especially on deep technical discussions, you 
knew you were talking to someone with the rare combination of skills that went 
incredibly deep both on the hardware, silicon side of platforms but also on the 
software, networking side of the platforms.  Rarely did I find a topic that 
Venky wasn't well versed on. And by "topic" I mean everything from football to 
photography to history to politics and many other subjects well beyond the 
technical realm our day jobs find us in. Conversations with Venky were a treat. 
Traveling with him was an adventure. Debating with him was a lesson. I will so 
miss all of him.

Below are some details on a memorial service this Sunday in Oregon and also a 
GoFundMe page. If you're in Oregon or close by please join the service. Venky 
left behind a wife, Priya, and two young girls, Adhiti and Namrata. While I'm 
sure they are overwhelmed with sadness and grief at the moment they can use our 
support. Please consider supporting the GoFundMe memorial fund for his family.

Lastly, my network extends through this distribution list.  But Venky's network 
was one hundred times broader. Please share this sad news through your own 
networks.

Thanks,
Jim

From: A message from Sandra Rivera
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 10:58 AM
Subject: Follow-up: A loss for our NPG organization

All,
We have an update on the memorial service plans in celebration of Venky 
Venkatesan's life.

The service will be held on Sunday, April 8th at our Jones Farm Conference 
Center (JFCC) in Hillsboro, OR from 2-4PM, and is open to all who would like to 
join.

Venky's family will plan to attend, as well as friends and others who have 
worked closely with him over the years. Please note that this is not an 
Intel-sponsored event and therefore any travel or expenses related to attending 
need to be managed personally.

Many of you have asked about donations, and we have helped setup a GoFundMe 
account for his family which will be used to fund scholarships for his children.
https://www.gofundme.com/venky-venkatesan-memorial-fund

If you have any questions about the service, please contact Udayan Mukherjee.

Thank you all very much for your support during this difficult time.
Sandra




From: A message from Sandra Rivera
Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 9:34 PM
Subject: A loss for our NPG organization

To All,
Today is a very sad day for our NPG team and Intel.  Our dear friend and 
colleague, Venky Venkatesan, passed away early morning today after a tough 
battle with cancer.

Aside from his deep contributions to the organization, Venky provided technical 
mentorship to many employees and greatly impacted our technical leadership 
pipeline.

On a personal level, Venky was very dedicated to his family and also cared 
deeply about mentoring the next generation of engineers and scientists through 
efforts like coaching robotics teams and providing guidance to many interns and 
Intel employees. His passion, dedication and commitment to this organization, 
Intel, and the external community will be greatly missed.

We will let you know as soon as more information is available for Venky's 
memorial/celebration service.
Sandra

[dpdk-dev] Venky - Urgent Call for Stories

[St Leger, Jim]

Sorry for the very short notice. Forward as appropriate.
https://fd.io/2018/04/in-loving-memory-venky-venkatesan-the-father-of-dpdk/

I will have a chance tomorrow at a memorial service for Venky to share some 
stories. I need YOUR stories!
If you have one about how Venky impacted you, a debate you had with him on a 
call or at an event, or whatever, please write up a summary that I can share.

Please send them to me (not reply all please) ASAP.

The memorial is midday on Sunday. I’ll be flying up in the morning.
Do the best you can.

Thanks,
Jim

P.S. Once we can pause and take a breath we want to set some blog site or 
something f to curate and post these stories. If you are reading this message 
after Sunday morning and have a story, please send it along regardless. We will 
find a way to capture and share it.

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Summit Live Stream

[St Leger, Jim]

Watch live now
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1LyxBEoZAdzJN

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Summit Userspace Live Stream - Day 2

[St Leger, Jim]

We've made some improvements based on your feedback. Join us online.
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1dRKZnleWbmKB

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] FYI: Open Source Networking Survey

[St Leger, Jim]

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[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] FYI: CFP: FD.io mini-summit at ONS, March 26th

[St Leger, Jim]

Sorry if this is a duplicate.
Jim

From: m...@lists.fd.io [mailto:m...@lists.fd.io] On Behalf Of Trishan de 
Lanerolle
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 12:48 PM
To: m...@lists.fd.io
Subject: [FD.io] CFP: FD.io mini-summit at ONS, March 26th


Call for Proposals Open

Join us at the FD.io mini summit at ONS, to hear and learn from 
FD.io community experts who will be sharing information about 
the projects, use cases, capabilities, integration between FD.io 
and Kubernetes/ODL/OPNFV/Other communities, tools and many more exciting topics.

This is a great opportunity for the ONS attendees to share their thought 
leadership and innovations at one of the industry’s premier events.

Call for Proposals: https://goo.gl/HK2fo1

Submissions must be received by 11:59pm PST on Thursday, March 1st, 2018.

Dates to Remember
CFP Open: Monday, Feb 14, 2018
CFP Close: Thursday, March 1, 2018, 11:59 PST
CFP Notifications: Week of March 3
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[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] technical board

[St Leger, Jim]

Nice work by this TechBoard getting this established after the Userspace 
discussion in Dublin in October.


-Original Message-
From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 4:53 PM
To: announce at dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] technical board

There were some discussions to form a technical board for the DPDK:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.networking.dpdk.devel/26596

After a first meeting of this group, its scope and operation mode have been 
approved:
http://dpdk.org/browse/tools/dpdk-web/commit/?id=5833c070

So it is now part of the development process:
http://dpdk.org/dev#board

It is small, simple and easy to understand.
As usual, comments are welcome on the dev@ mailing list.

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] FYI: DPDK Accelerated vSwitch Projects

[St Leger, Jim]

FYI.
An update from the Intel team on our two vSwitch efforts and the move now to 
converge solely on the mainline community Open vSwitch project (now that 
ovs.org has adopted the DPDK acceleration model that was proven out via the 
01.org "OVDK" project.)
Jim

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:55:03 +
From: "Gray, Mark D" 
To: "dpdk-ovs at lists.01.org" 
Subject: [Dpdk-ovs] Clarification on Intel Support for the Intel DPDK
Accelerated Open vSwitch (OVDK)
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Hi,

As part of its commitment to SDN and NFV, Intel is an active participant in 
several open source and open standards projects. Until recently, Intel made 
contributions to two virtual switch community projects: Open vSwitch (OVS) and 
Intel(r) DPDK Accelerated Open vSwitch (OVDK). OVDK successfully demonstrated 
the huge advantage of DPDK for data packet acceleration and today DPDK is well 
received for high performing virtual switches and routers. Now, with the 
capabilities of DPDK incorporated into the mainstream OVS project, Intel is 
ceasing investments around OVDK and instead focusing efforts around OVS with 
DPDK-netdev, and advancing hardware acceleration.

Q&A


Can I still use OVDK?
Yes. However Intel is migrating to Open vSwitch version 2.4, which includes 
DPDK-netdev in user space (currently available as an experimental feature Open 
vSwitch version 2.3).

How long will Intel continue to maintain the OVDK project?
Maintenance, which includes integration of patches, nightly builds, mailing 
list support, and bug fixing on a best-effort basis, will continue until July 
1, 2015. However, there will be no further enhancements, effective immediately.

What are intel plans for OVS?
Intel will focus its effort in advancing hardware acceleration when using OVS 
with DPDK-netdev 

Will Intel continue to make improvements to the DPDK?
Yes. Updates will be available in the DPDK download available at www.dpdk.org 
and incorporated into future Open vSwitch features. For more information about 
the DPDK, visit www.dpdk.org.  



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Mark


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[dpdk-dev] Q on contribution to DPDK

[St Leger, Jim]

Ravi:

DPDK is an open source community project. Anyone and everyone are welcome and 
encouraged to contribute patches. There should not be any concern about 
individual contributors versus company affiliation. What matters is useful code.
Please review the Development page on the site for guidance: http://dpdk.org/dev

If you have particular areas of interest or expertise just share that with the 
list. 

I look forward to your contributions.

Jim

-Original Message-
From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of r k
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 2:39 PM
To: dev at dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] Q on contribution to DPDK

Hello DPDK development team,

I am interested in contributing to DPDK and wanted to know a way of 
contributing to it. Some questions

1. Will DPDK accept patches from community? I will be individual contributor 
with no affiliation to any company.

2. If answer is "Yes" to previous question, should I look at DPDK development 
roadmap and pick one from that?

Inputs appreciated.

Thanks,
Ravi

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Userspace - Thanks

[St Leger, Jim]

I want to take a moment to thank everyone in the community for making the DPDK 
Userspace event in Dublin a tremendous success.  There were many great, 
interactive discussions during the sessions, during the breaks, and at dinner 
last night. https://dpdksummit.com/us/en/userspace2015

I also wanted to once again thank the people who made it all possible:
-> Siobhan Butler for the original idea, concept, and planning for the event.
-> Siobhan, Dave Hunt, Tim O'Driscoll, and Harry van Haaren for all the event 
planning and execution work.
-> Cisco, Intel, and Red Hat for sponsoring the event.
-> All of the many speakers over the course of the two days.
and
-> The attendees.

If you weren't able to attend the event (and even if you were) you can view all 
of the presentations at http://www.slideshare.net/harryvanhaaren.
It will take a bit of time to get the videos edited and posted.  They should 
eventually land at the www.dpdksummit.com site that is used for hosting 
community event info and archival content.

Keith Wiles has posted some notes from the open discussion session he led on 
"TCP/IP Stack Integration with DPDK" 
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-October/024810.html. Read, review, comment.

Dave Neary will be posting some notes/minutes from the DPDK Project Structure 
discussion today for all to see and comment on as appropriate. Watch for that.

Safe travels.
Jim

[dpdk-dev] DPDK Logo Release

[St Leger, Jim]

When can we expect the main website (including home page http://dpdk.org/) to 
be updated?
Have we opened up the website to allow the community to edit it? (I think this 
has been discussed in the past...)
Who owns website changes today?

-Original Message-
From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of O'Driscoll, Tim
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 6:49 AM
To: dev at dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Logo Release

We'd like to announce the release of the new DPDK project logo. Various 
versions of the logo are available at: http://dpdk.org/about. This includes 
horizontal and vertical versions, versions with and without Data Plane 
Development Kit underneath, and versions suitable for a white or black 
background. There's an example dpdk.org page showing use of the logo at: 
http://dpdk.org/777.html.

These logos are available for anybody in the community to use in DPDK-related 
collateral.

The logos are provided by Intel under a Creative Commons 
Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 License (CC BY-ND 4.0 - 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/).


Tim

[dpdk-dev] DPDK.org Community Call - Sept 24 - Discuss Growth, Improvements

[St Leger, Jim]

I am going to host a community call on Thursday Sept 24 at 7:00am Pacific 
daylight time.  The conference call dial-in info via GoToMeeting is pasted 
below.  Here is the background and objective of the discussion.

The DPDK community continues to grow.  Here are some stats on the 2.1 release 
from August 17th:
=> 827 commits. A growth of ~50% over the 2.0 release.
=> 82 individual committers. A growth of ~33% over the 2.0 release.
The number of companies contributing has also continued to grow.

There is a strong desire to continue to grow and solidify the community. But 
the growth brings up the question of how the community is structured to scale.  
 Additionally, there are many private DPDK repositories across the industry 
(e.g. ARM ports, for example.)  There are a myriad of reasons why companies 
have elected to keep their DPDK code and ports private versus put them into the 
DPDK.org community. We as a community need to understand and explore these 
reasons and work towards enabling inclusion.

During this gathering I'd like to bring together the DPDK community including:
a) the DPDK code contributors,
b) the consumers of DPDK downstream (VNF vendors, etc.),
c) private branch DPDK creators/consumers, and
d) anyone else interested in the growth and future of the DPDK open source 
software project.

The call will focus on two topics:

1)Structure for growth:

Do we have the community practices, policies, and procedures in place to allow 
us to continue to grow on our current trajectory?



2)Gaps Limiting Participation:

What gaps do companies who would like to participate/contribute to DPDK.org see?

What changes would they like to see made to improve the project?

I hope people can attend AND that they will join and speak up and be heard. The 
success and growth of the community depends on YOU!

Thanks,
Jim
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[dpdk-dev] DPDK.org Community Call - Sept 24 - Discuss Growth, Improvements

[St Leger, Jim]

This call is aimed to get more open dialogue in the community.  Yes, the slot 
at DPDK Userspace should delve deeper into the subject. But rather than wait it 
has been desired by several people to get some discussion going now ahead of 
the Dublin gathering.  I hope the community can start the conversation now and 
then tee up some areas to dig into deeper when people are face-to-face in 
Dublin (those who can make it anyway.) And of course if people aren't going to 
Dublin this is an easy path to be heard and contribute to the discussion.
I hope that helps.
Jim

-Original Message-
From: Dave Neary [mailto:dne...@redhat.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:00 PM
To: St Leger, Jim; dev at dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK.org Community Call - Sept 24 - Discuss Growth, 
Improvements

Hi Jim,

I see that there is a session loosely aligned with the agenda below on the 
agenda for DPDK Userspace in Dublin: 
https://dpdksummit.com/us/en/userspace2015 (current speaker is TBC). 
Will this call serve as a preparation call for that face to face meeting? In 
which case, is this the best opportunity that people who cannot travel to 
Dublin will have to make any concerns/proposals known so that they can be 
discussed there?

Thanks,
Dave.

On 09/22/2015 03:14 AM, St Leger, Jim wrote:
> I am going to host a community call on Thursday Sept 24 at 7:00am Pacific 
> daylight time.  The conference call dial-in info via GoToMeeting is pasted 
> below.  Here is the background and objective of the discussion.
>
> The DPDK community continues to grow.  Here are some stats on the 2.1 release 
> from August 17th:
> => 827 commits. A growth of ~50% over the 2.0 release.
> => 82 individual committers. A growth of ~33% over the 2.0 release.
> The number of companies contributing has also continued to grow.
>
> There is a strong desire to continue to grow and solidify the community. But 
> the growth brings up the question of how the community is structured to 
> scale.   Additionally, there are many private DPDK repositories across the 
> industry (e.g. ARM ports, for example.)  There are a myriad of reasons why 
> companies have elected to keep their DPDK code and ports private versus put 
> them into the DPDK.org community. We as a community need to understand and 
> explore these reasons and work towards enabling inclusion.
>
> During this gathering I'd like to bring together the DPDK community including:
> a) the DPDK code contributors,
> b) the consumers of DPDK downstream (VNF vendors, etc.),
> c) private branch DPDK creators/consumers, and
> d) anyone else interested in the growth and future of the DPDK open source 
> software project.
>
> The call will focus on two topics:
>
> 1)Structure for growth:
>
> Do we have the community practices, policies, and procedures in place to 
> allow us to continue to grow on our current trajectory?
>
>
>
> 2)Gaps Limiting Participation:
>
> What gaps do companies who would like to participate/contribute to DPDK.org 
> see?
>
> What changes would they like to see made to improve the project?
>
> I hope people can attend AND that they will join and speak up and be heard. 
> The success and growth of the community depends on YOU!
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
> =
> DPDK Community Call
>
> Thu, Sep 24, 2015 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT Daylight Time Please join my 
> meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.
> https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/766709085
>
> You can also dial in using your phone.
>
> Access Code: 766-709-085
> Dial-in phone numbers
> United States : +1 (312) 757-3117
> Australia : +61 2 8355 1031
> Austria : +43 (0) 7 2088 1033
> Belgium : +32 (0) 28 93 7001
> Canada : +1 (647) 497-9371
> Denmark : +45 (0) 69 91 89 33
> Finland : +358 (0) 942 41 5770
> France : +33 (0) 170 950 585
> Germany : +49 (0) 692 5736 7303
> Ireland : +353 (0) 19 030 050
> Italy : +39 0 693 38 75 50
> Netherlands : +31 (0) 208 080 208
> New Zealand : +64 9 925 0481
> Norway : +47 21 54 82 21
> Spain : +34 911 82 9890
> Sweden : +46 (0) 853 527 817
> Switzerland : +41 (0) 435 0167 65
> United Kingdom : +44 (0) 20 3713 5010
>
>

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