The document summarizes the history and development of IOVisor from 2011 to 2017. It discusses how IOVisor started with the goal of programmability for infrastructure developers in 2011. It then covers how IOVisor grew its community and became an official member of the Linux Foundation while developing kernel, compilers, tools, and IO modules used for networking, tracing, monitoring, storage, and security. The document concludes by discussing future areas of focus like performance, hardware offloads, better tools/abstractions, useful IO modules, and capabilities/coprocessors.
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