Linux Kernel Developers' Netconf 2016

Netconf is a Linux community conference, by-invitation-only, running for the seventh year. The agenda has a clear focus on kernel level networking. Attendees are the main maintainers and developers of the Linux networking subsystem. Invitation is issued only 10-15 people who have provided significant contributions.

This winter, the Netconf joins the Netdev 1.1 held February 8-9, 2016 in Seville, Spain.

Due to the distributed nature of the Network subsystem development, contributors to the stack are located in different corners of the globe and coordinate security and bug fixes as well as maintenance and new features via email.

Netconf is intended to be a face to face working meetup to compliment those email exchanges. Problematic unresolved issues are hashed out and bold new ideas are discussed.

• Location : Seville, Spain
• Dates : February 8-9, 2016
• Committee:

  David S. Miller (davem@davemloft.net, netdev maintainer)

  Soyoung Park (sypeattle@gmail.com)

• Programs :

  Name	Topic	Material
  David Miller
  Pablo Neira Ayuso	Netfilter updates (since last Netconf). Ongoing work. Switchdev support
  Jamal Hadi Salim
  Daniel Borkmann	BPF constant blinding
  Thomas Graf	IPv6 for containers
  Jiri Pirko	Devlink interface	PDF
  Alexei Starovoitov	bpf status(upcoming features, long-term ideas, ...), tracing for networking, hw offloads
  Eric Dumazet
  Tom Herbert	The battle against protocol ossification in networking hardware offload
  Alexander Duyck	Problems with SR-IOV implementation being too vendor specific. Recent work on local checksum offload for GSO.
  Johannes Berg
  Jeff Kirsher	Skeleton driver update, kernel documentation update on the new features
  Herbert Xu
  Shrijeet Mukherjee	Critical Protocol handling
  Roopa Prabhu	lwt, mpls, netlink api review	PDF
  David Ahern	VRF status; L3 offload with VRFs	PDF
  Florian Westphal
  Jesse Brandeburg
  Damascene Joachimpillai	Linux Networking and Data Center Operations

• Meeting notes: Netconf discussions, part 1 by Nathan Willis
• Meeting notes: Netconf discussions, part 2 by Nathan Willis