Hi Azhar,

 

Thanks for the comments and the interest. The rationale behind adoption is we 
see strong community interest in the topic and have reasonable content in the 
document. We still have more steps like last call before the RFC publication 
and are expecting good community contribution to the document prior to that.

 

For the performance comparisons, we didn't use HW acceleration techniques since 
they are application and deployment specific; for example, a small CPE in an 
enterprise branch may never use any hardware acceleration because of the low 
throughput requirements. Any specific suggestions including references in this 
area are most welcome.

 

Container networking is definitely an interesting topic. We will certainly 
capture the challenges in a mixed Container/OpenStack environment, how efforts 
like Kuryr are attempting to address these and how SR-IOV plays out in this 
scenario. Any other suggestions are welcome.

 

Can you please elaborate more on the single threading support? 

 

Thanks,

Ramki

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfvrg [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Azhar Sayeed
Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 8:11 AM
To: Diego R. Lopez <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Nfvrg] Call for adoption of 
draft-natarajan-nfvrg-containers-for-nfv

 

Hi Diego and Authors..

 

Can you clarify if any data path acceleration techniques were used to measure 
throughput between guest and host OS. If not what is the usefulness of that 
metric - If the idea is to show raw comparisons then fine - if the idea is to 
show how bad the VMs are when compared to Unikernel and containers then you 
have achieved it it well..

 

The main issues with Unikernels or containers for NFV are not discussed in 
depth - Issues such as single threading support, IP address assignment and 
container networking need further exploration and study. Need at least 
statements in the document that those are for further study.

 

So perhaps I am missing the point of adoption of this draft - may be the 
objectives can be clarified.

 

Regards,

Azhar

 

 

 

> On Jan 3, 2017, at 7:14 PM, Diego R. Lopez < 
> <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> wrote:

> 

> Hi,

> 

> This first message of the new year is to launch a two-week adoption call for 
> draft-natarajan-nfvrg-containers-for-nfv. Ramki and I believe the document is 
> mature enough to consider its adoption, once it has evolved from an analysis 
> of container technology into a more comprehensive discussion of lightweight 
> technologies in NFV.

> 

> Please indicate in your comments “support” or “no support” and discuss how 
> this draft will contribute to the goals of NFVRG.

> 

> The current draft is available at:

> 

>  <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-natarajan-nfvrg-containers-for-nfv/> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-natarajan-nfvrg-containers-for-nfv/

> 

> Be goode,

> 

> 

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