Re: [dpdk-dev] Sad News from Intel - Venky Venkatesan
Shocking and very sad...Venky's contributions, and his persona, as you outlined are significant and will be remembered. Robert (Bob) Monkman Director, Networking Software Strategy & Ecosystem Programs Arm 150 Rose Orchard Way San Jose, Ca 95134 M: +1.510.676.5490 Skype: robert.monkman From: govboard On Behalf Of St Leger, Jim Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 11:37 AM To: techbo...@dpdk.org; Jill Lovato ; Trishan de Lanerolle (tdelanero...@linuxfoundation.org) ; govbo...@dpdk.org; Ed Warnicke ; t...@fd.io; dev@dpdk.org; annou...@dpdk.org; vpp-...@lists.fd.io Cc: Gadiyar, Rajesh ; Mukherjee, Udayan Subject: [dpdk-govboard] Sad News from Intel - Venky Venkatesan 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 IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
[dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - Linux Foundation
Right. Yes, I can access it just fine. Thx, Robert (Bob) Monkman Enterprise Segment Marketing Manager 150 Rose Orchard Way San Jose, Ca 95134 M: +1.510.676.5490 -Original Message- From: O'Driscoll, Tim [mailto:tim.odrisc...@intel.com] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 9:09 AM To: Bob Monkman; dev at dpdk.org; Laura Kempke; Michael Dolan Subject: RE: DPDK Community Call - Linux Foundation > -Original Message- > From: Bob Monkman [mailto:Bob.Monkman at arm.com] > Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 4:30 PM > To: O'Driscoll, Tim; dev at dpdk.org; Laura Kempke; Michael Dolan > Subject: RE: DPDK Community Call - Linux Foundation > > Thanks very much for the minutes. Can we get Laura's draft deck re: > budget and tradeoffs/options? There's no slide deck, just the spreadsheet at: https://docs.google.com/a/linuxfoundation.org/spreadsheets/d/1-3686Xb_jf4FtxdX8Mus9UwIxUb2vI_ppmJV5GnXcLg/edit?usp=sharing. This outlines the minimum (column B) and optional (column C) alternatives that Laura presented on Tuesday. I believe access to the spreadsheet is open to everybody, but if anybody runs into issues I'm sure Laura can help to grant access. Tim > > Robert (Bob) Monkman > Enterprise Segment Marketing Manager > 150 Rose Orchard Way > San Jose, Ca 95134 > M: +1.510.676.5490 > > > -Original Message- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of O'Driscoll, Tim > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 2:16 PM > To: dev at dpdk.org; Laura Kempke; Michael Dolan > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - Linux Foundation > > Here are some brief minutes of our discussion on Tuesday. Apologies > for the delay in sending these out. > > Attendees: Bob Monkman, Bruce Richardson, Dave Neary, Ferruh Yigit, > Jim St Leger, John Bromhead, John McNamara, Keith Wiles, Konstantin > Ananyev, Laura Kempke, M Jay, Martin Horne, Mike Dolan, Mike Glynn, > Tetsuya Mukawa, Thomas Monjalon, Tim O'Driscoll, Yoshihiro Nakajima > Note: This list is taken from the GoToMeeting tool, but since people > joined/left at different times it may not be complete. > > > The background to the call is that we had a discussion at the > Userspace event in Dublin on using Linux Foundation to provide a > lightweight governance model for DPDK. This would cover marketing, > event planning, trademarks, other legal issues etc. It would not cover > any technical governance of the project. > > Following this and a follow-up call we had in December, a small group > of us (Dave Neary, Thomas Monjalon, Stephen Hemminger, Vincent Jardin, > me) met with the Linux Foundation to create a draft budget which is > available at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1- > 3686Xb_jf4FtxdX8Mus9UwIxUb2vI_ppmJV5GnXcLg/edit#gid=302618256. > > Laura walked through the spreadsheet at the meeting. Column B > represents the minimum budget requirement for DPDK and totals $227k. > Column C shows a number of optional additions and totals $766k. Points > of discussion > included: > - The minimum option assumes that some of the event costs are covered > by registration fees and sponsorship. > - Jim asked about LF hosting DPDK IT infrastructure. This isn't > currently included (row 23) but could be added if desired. > - The item for hackathons (row 29) is just a placeholder. The general > consensus seemed to be that we wouldn't need these. > > Taking the minimum budget requirement of ~$227k, that would mean we'd > be looking for ~10-15 companies to contribute, each paying a flat-rate > membership fee of ~$15-25k. > > There was a question on what member companies would get in return for > their contribution. We need to do some further work on this, but the > likelihood is that they would get a seat on a board which would > determine how the DPDK budget is spent. The scope of this board would > be limited to marketing/event/legal issues. Technical governance would > continue to be handled separately via our Maintainers and our > Architecture Board. > > Most people on the call felt that the proposal to use LF was a good > idea and was worth pursuing further. However, we only had a small > number of people on the call so that may not be representative of the > views of the entire community. Therefore, if anybody has further > thoughts or input on this, please feel free to reply to this email. > > Keith suggested holding a poll so that we can quantify the level of > interest and give people a way to provide feedback anonymously in case > they're unwilling to do so in public. I'll look into this. > > Feel free to post any corrections or additions if I missed anything. > > > Tim > > > -Original Message- > > From: dev [mailto:de
[dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - Linux Foundation
Thanks very much for the minutes. Can we get Laura's draft deck re: budget and tradeoffs/options? Robert (Bob) Monkman Enterprise Segment Marketing Manager 150 Rose Orchard Way San Jose, Ca 95134 M: +1.510.676.5490 -Original Message- From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of O'Driscoll, Tim Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 2:16 PM To: dev at dpdk.org; Laura Kempke; Michael Dolan Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - Linux Foundation Here are some brief minutes of our discussion on Tuesday. Apologies for the delay in sending these out. Attendees: Bob Monkman, Bruce Richardson, Dave Neary, Ferruh Yigit, Jim St Leger, John Bromhead, John McNamara, Keith Wiles, Konstantin Ananyev, Laura Kempke, M Jay, Martin Horne, Mike Dolan, Mike Glynn, Tetsuya Mukawa, Thomas Monjalon, Tim O'Driscoll, Yoshihiro Nakajima Note: This list is taken from the GoToMeeting tool, but since people joined/left at different times it may not be complete. The background to the call is that we had a discussion at the Userspace event in Dublin on using Linux Foundation to provide a lightweight governance model for DPDK. This would cover marketing, event planning, trademarks, other legal issues etc. It would not cover any technical governance of the project. Following this and a follow-up call we had in December, a small group of us (Dave Neary, Thomas Monjalon, Stephen Hemminger, Vincent Jardin, me) met with the Linux Foundation to create a draft budget which is available at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-3686Xb_jf4FtxdX8Mus9UwIxUb2vI_ppmJV5GnXcLg/edit#gid=302618256. Laura walked through the spreadsheet at the meeting. Column B represents the minimum budget requirement for DPDK and totals $227k. Column C shows a number of optional additions and totals $766k. Points of discussion included: - The minimum option assumes that some of the event costs are covered by registration fees and sponsorship. - Jim asked about LF hosting DPDK IT infrastructure. This isn't currently included (row 23) but could be added if desired. - The item for hackathons (row 29) is just a placeholder. The general consensus seemed to be that we wouldn't need these. Taking the minimum budget requirement of ~$227k, that would mean we'd be looking for ~10-15 companies to contribute, each paying a flat-rate membership fee of ~$15-25k. There was a question on what member companies would get in return for their contribution. We need to do some further work on this, but the likelihood is that they would get a seat on a board which would determine how the DPDK budget is spent. The scope of this board would be limited to marketing/event/legal issues. Technical governance would continue to be handled separately via our Maintainers and our Architecture Board. Most people on the call felt that the proposal to use LF was a good idea and was worth pursuing further. However, we only had a small number of people on the call so that may not be representative of the views of the entire community. Therefore, if anybody has further thoughts or input on this, please feel free to reply to this email. Keith suggested holding a poll so that we can quantify the level of interest and give people a way to provide feedback anonymously in case they're unwilling to do so in public. I'll look into this. Feel free to post any corrections or additions if I missed anything. Tim > -Original Message- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of O'Driscoll, Tim > Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 12:19 AM > To: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - Linux Foundation > > At the community call we held on governance in December, we agreed that > a few of us would work with the Linux Foundation on a proposal for a > light-weight governance of DPDK. This would include things like > management of DPDK events, registering trademarks, and any required > legal support etc. > > Stephen, Thomas, Dave, Vincent and I met with the Linux Foundation to > discuss this and came up with a draft budget proposal. We'd like to have > a community call to discuss this and decide how we should proceed. > > The current budget estimate is ~$227k. LF guidance is that for this size > of budget they'd propose a flat membership fee (i.e. no tiered > membership) of ~$25k per member company, with a target of getting 10 or > more companies to contribute. > > At the call we can discuss: > - A breakdown of the proposed budget. LF are very flexible on this, so > we can add or remove whatever we want for DPDK. > - Proposed membership fee. > - Matthew also highlight some recent changes to community representation > at the Linux Foundation. We should discuss any concerns associated with > this. > - Next steps. > > > When: > Tue, Feb 2, 2015 15:00 - 16:00 GMT > T
[dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - ARM Support
Tim, Yes, and I have been meaning to ask Venky to send out the presentation again. This was asked at the meeting and it fell through the cracks. I had wanted to ping some of the ARM SoC folks to read it and come prepared to discuss. As it stands, I will send a note anyways and see if I can get some interested stakeholders there. I recall some of the Cavium folks were online last time. Regards, Bob Robert (Bob) Monkman Enterprise Segment Marketing Manager 150 Rose Orchard Way San Jose, Ca 95134 M: +1.510.676.5490 -Original Message- From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of O'Driscoll, Tim Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 9:51 AM To: dev at dpdk.org Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - ARM Support I missed Tuesday's call as I was travelling, but I believe one of the outcomes was to hold another call at the same time on Tuesday 8th to further discuss the External Mempool Manager. Here are the details: When: Tue, Dec 8, 2015 15:00 - 16:00 GMT Tue, Dec 8, 2015 07:00 - 08:00 PST Tue, Dec 8, 2015 10:00 - 11:00 EST Tue, Dec 8, 2015 16:00 - 17:00 CET How to join: You can join from your computer, tablet or smartphone: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/704010829 You can also dial in using your phone. Access Code: 704-010-829 Phone numbers United States : +1 (786) 358-5410 Australia : +61 2 9087 3604 Austria : +43 7 2088 0034 Belgium : +32 (0) 28 93 7018 Canada : +1 (647) 497-9350 Denmark : +45 69 91 88 62 Finland : +358 (0) 942 41 5778 France : +33 (0) 182 880 456 Germany : +49 (0) 692 5736 7211 Ireland : +353 (0) 15 290 180 Italy : +39 0 699 36 98 80 Netherlands : +31 (0) 208 908 267 New Zealand : +64 9 442 7358 Norway : +47 21 54 32 44 Spain : +34 911 23 0850 Sweden : +46 (0) 853 527 835 Switzerland : +41 (0) 435 0006 96 United Kingdom : +44 (0) 20 3713 5028 IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
[dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - ARM Support
Tim, et al, Thanks for this call to the ARM community to convene to discuss what support is out there in ARM ecosystem. I am responsible for networking segment software strategy within ARM and, as some of your colleagues already know, I am coordinating collaborative work on DPDK for ARM with multiple members of our ARM ecosystem. My concern on this first discussion is that I, and other key stakeholders from engineering management will be out all week for the US Thanksgiving holiday. I suspect other key ARM stakeholder reps who may want to join in this conversation may be in the same boat. Would the group here be willing to consider same day and time the following week? Tuesday Dec 1? We would greatly appreciate and I think you will have a better chance of critical mass of the right people. Regards, Bob Robert (Bob) Monkman Enterprise Segment Marketing Manager 150 Rose Orchard Way San Jose, Ca 95134 M: +1.510.676.5490 -Original Message- From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of O'Driscoll, Tim Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:09 AM To: dev at dpdk.org Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK Community Call - ARM Support There's been a lot of activity on the mailing list recently on DPDK support for ARM. It's great to see the project being enhanced to embrace a new architecture. We have seen some duplication of efforts on this, so we think it would make a good topic for a community call. This will give everybody a chance to share their plans so we can be clear on who's doing what and make sure that we avoid overlaps. We'll host a community call on this next Tuesday (24th Nov) at 15:00-16:00 GMT. Details on the proposed agenda, the time in a couple of other timezones, and how to join the online meeting are included below. Agenda: ARMv7 & v8 ports: - Summary of what's been submitted for 2.2 and what the remaining gaps are (Dave Hunt) - Discussion on plans for further contributions in this area External Memory Manager: - Summary of our plans for DPDK 2.3 (Venky Venkatesan) - Do others plan to do work in this area? Other DPDK/ARM plans: - Does anybody else have plans for ARM-related work in DPDK that they can share? When: Tue, Nov 24, 2015 15:00 - 16:00 GMT Tue, Nov 24, 2015 07:00 - 08:00 PST Tue, Nov 24, 2015 10:00 - 11:00 EST Tue, Nov 24, 2015 16:00 - 17:00 PST Meeting Details: You can join from your computer, tablet or smartphone: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/535221101 You can also dial in using your phone. Access Code: 535-221-101 Phone numbers: United States: +1 (224) 501-3217 Australia: +61 2 9087 3605 Austria: +43 7 2088 1403 Belgium: +32 (0) 28 93 7019 Canada: +1 (647) 497-9351 Denmark: +45 69 91 88 64 Finland: +358 (0) 942 41 5781 France: +33 (0) 182 880 458 Germany: +49 (0) 692 5736 7210 Ireland +353 (0) 14 845 979 Italy: +39 0 553 98 95 67 Netherlands: +31 (0) 208 080 381 New Zealand: +64 4 974 7214 Norway: +47 21 03 58 98 Spain: +34 955 32 0845 Sweden: +46 (0) 853 527 836 Switzerland: +41 (0) 435 0167 09 United Kingdom: +44 (0) 330 221 0086 -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.
