Edited by Lingli Deng based on notes taken by Bob Monkman and feedback from Bill Fischofer and Keith Wiles

Bob Monkman Bill Fischofer Keith Wiles Fu Qiao (CM) Srini Addepalli (FreeScale) Subha Venkataraman (Freescale) Bharat Mota (Freescale) Yu Chang (Huawei) Abdel rabi (Altera) Hu Yun Chao (Huawei) Zhou Nan (Huawei) Kin-Yip Liu (Cavium) Brian Skerry (intel) Prakash Kanthi (DataTap Solutions)

Session was delayed until 3:40 and so we had only slightly less than 2 hours. Skipped High level requirements to go over 2 presentations:

1. ODP overview and how it relates to g-API from ODP team perspective.
2. Keith’s updated DPDK perspective g-API presentation

We had presentation, some comments and questions in discussion afterwards.

It was agreed that the only way forward was to produce prototypes examining these sorts of options. It was also suggested that the DPDK and ODP teams really need to directly discuss and explore convergence in general.

Bob confirmed the ODP is adding better DPDK support in ODP and will likewise produce some prototype/POCs for assessment of the project. This can be considered part of the Implementation phase where proposals are presented for meeting the requirements of DPACC and the group can evaluate and go from there.

Keith suggested rather than working with DPDK as the SDK to ODP, the team should focus on adding the missing parts to DPDK to enable the ODP/SoC vendors.

• "To be frank, I do not see the need to continue the work with DPDK as the SDK to ODP. This model is not going to be acceptable as too many DPDK users would be required to change and would effect performance on IA platforms. Even if ODP met the 2% performance goal it would still be a hard sell to our customer who already get 100% performance for their applications."
• "With that stated, I would suggest we focus on adding the missing parts to DPDK to enable the ODP/SoC vendors. Meaning we need a port of DPDK to an ARM SoC platform we can all agree on plus we can agree the port is correctly done to not effect ARM/SoC performance. Using the ODP PMD layer will allow the SoC vendors to keep their IP private and still produce an open source solution."
• "We can then move forward in the DPACC with a common goal for the VNF applications."