Re: RE: [virtio-comment] [PATCH REQUIREMENTS v2 0/7] virtio net new features requirements

[Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:28:26 +0000, Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> wrote:
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> > From: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 10:21 PM
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> > Under your promotion, I think the advancement of these tasks has been
> > relatively fast. But I'm wondering when we expect these things to be done.
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> There has been delay in last 10 days due to some unplanned tasks.
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> Device counters and ntuple is very clear multi-vendor and multi-user requirements.
> So lets finish both the requirements by 26th of July.
> By mid august we can complete the design and draft for both by 1st week of sept.

OK. we will do these firstly.

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> > I also want to know, do you plan to release specs one by one, or these related
> > specs together. I would like to know about related plans.
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> Yes, we don't need to put all in one patchset.
> In last few meetings we already identified requirements that can be divisible as individual one to progress.
> Counters and ntuple are on top.

OK.


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> > We very much hope that these tasks, especially features such as device counter,
> > n-tuple receive flow filters requirements, and packet timestamp can be
> > completed within this year. The sooner the better.
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> Packet timestamp requires new VQ desc format because it has direct impact on how many DMAs are done and how we pack them.
> So how about we get to this after, we finish the ntuple and counters, in mid sept?


Great.

> We can design new VQ format for latency + timestamp in one go from Sept onwards before Dec.
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We are more than happry to help.

Thanks.