Attendees:
Thomas (tho...@monjalon.net)
Eilon (eil...@mellanox.com)
Raslan (rasl...@mellanox.com)
Harini (harini.ramakrish...@microsoft.com)
Bruce (bruce.richard...@intel.com)
Cathal (cathal.oh...@intel.com)
Anand (anand.ra...@intel.com)
Pallavi (pallavi.ka...@intel.com)
Ranjit (ranjit.me...@intel.com)
Minutes:
* Attendees reviewed call time and agreed to keep current time unchanged.
* Call needs to cover the following locations: Ireland, US west coast,
Israel, India, France, Palestine
* It’s expected that more contributor companies may join the call
(expressions of interest made)
* The current release (19.05) common files are now frozen in RC1.
- Early development and owned area files may have changes in RC2 or RC3
- However 19.08 will be stricter, in keeping changes to RC1.
* For Windows dev, next big step is to work on PCI / Kernel module.
- meson not required for kernel builds
- msbuild is fine, needs WDK for kernel builds in Windows
- Mellanox supports bus/pci port should be our next target
- Intel has latest bus/pci updates available in windows draft repo
- Changes are based on 18.08 (so need to rebase to 19.05)
* 19.08/19.11 – would bring extra libraries & 40GB (Intel) PMD for L2
forward.
* Intel may have a need to send some PMD functionality in 19.08 and
other functionality in 19.11.
* Thomas agrees libraries (eal) then kernel module then bus/pci then
Intel PMD (i40e) would be an approach supported by the community in
building up functionality.
* Microsoft – no current assignable resources, but when resources
available, will help with port. Will look into UIO driver.
Advice for this project:
* Encourage others to use draft repo common code – to align on licenses
and meson/msbuild building
* Need to rebase to 19.05 from 18.08 (this needs to be solved first)
* We need to make clear the status of the work on windows
- publish a roadmap on dpdk.org for 19.08 & 19.11.
* We need to be clear on draft repo usage, naming, branching etc.
- Also maintain history.
- Always send patches to the draft repo.
- Send when ready send to the mailing list.
- If the patches are NOT to be merged, please add a tag to the title
(19.08, 19.11, etc.).
* CI: The community lab support will need to be improved, need to ask
for Windows additions to the Community lab (UNH).
* Mellanox plan to include CI for windows, target end of Q3
* rte_panic() – this is everywhere in Linux.
- We are always working to remove rte_panic from all patches.
- Please return error rather than exit.
Agenda for next call:
– good to sync up on the bus/pci and general status.
