[dm-devel] [Lsf] Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 03/30/2011 04:26 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 16:10 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 03/30/2011 04:02 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 07:58 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>>> No, seriously. I think it would be good to have a separate slot
>>>> discussing DCB (be it FCoE or iSCSI) and cgroups.
>>>> And how to best align these things.
>>>
>>> OK, I'll go for that ... Data Centre Bridging; experiences, technologies
>>> and needs ... something like that.  What about virtualisation and open
>>> vSwitch?
>>>
>> Hmm. Not qualified enough to talk about the latter; I was more
>> envisioning the storage-related aspects here (multiqueue mapping,
>> QoS classes etc). With virtualisation and open vSwitch we're more in
>> the network side of things; doubt open vSwitch can do DCB.
>> And even if it could, virtio certainly can't :-)
>
> Technically, the topic DCB is about Data Centre Ethernet enhancements
> and converged networks ... that's why it's naturally allied to virtual
> switching.
>
> I was thinking we might put up a panel of vendors to get us all an
> education on the topic ...
>
Oh, but gladly.
Didn't know we had some at the LSF.

Cheers,

Hannes
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