TB Attendees ------------ Aaron Bruce Honnappa Kevin Maxime Morten Stephen Thomas
NOTE: The technical board meetings are on every second Wednesday at 3 pm UTC. Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend. Link to join: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96459488340?password=d808f1f6-0a28-4165-929e-5a5bcae7efeb NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2023-Nov-29 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Hemant Agenda ------ 1. Welcome new member of Techboard. - Morten was recently invited to join the DPDK technical board - He was officially welcomed to his first TB meeting as a TB member 2. Release-critical items: - No critical items at this time for 23.11 3. Discussion of experimental APIs - TB discussed the idea of having minimum and maximum time-bounds for functions being experimental - No desire to have APIs sit in experimental state for long periods of time without update - Proposals for minimum time spent experimental were - 1 release cycle - 1 LTS release - consensus reached that LTS is unnecessary, and one release of DPDK is sufficient - For max time spent in experimental, agreement that there should not be a fixed, hard limit - Target of 1 year max was generally felt to be reasonable - at that time, APIs should be reviewed and ideally either: * moved to be made stable (the expected path in most cases) * removed from DPDK as unnecessary - exceptions to keep API experimental for longer may be approved on request - appropriate subsystem maintainer, or tree maintainer, to approve all requests for a) exceptions b) moving to stable c) API removal 4. Lab Statement of Work (SOW) for 2024 - Tech-board needs to vote on priorities for next year - Few missing votes from member: ACTION, close within the week or ASAP! - Tech-board also to provide a recommendation on developer resourcing in the lab - mentoring of any new hires in the lab is available, and not expected to be an issue for ramp-up - suggestion of hiring 2 x undergrad developers, was approved unanimously by TB. 5. Discussion of the patchset for the link-bonding framework/driver in DPDK [https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=29900&state=*]: - adds new APIs to ethdev - APIs are specific device ops specifically for the net/bonding driver [notification of new additions to a bond] - General concerns expressed: - this makes the driver less generic, and less transparent - need a good explanation of the use-case - we need details on how to test it - needs more details and justification from contributor - patchset deferred for now, and will not make 23.11 - discussion to continue on dev mailing-list 6. Discussion of patchset for new "macsec" example app [https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20231109210122.2493856-1-gak...@marvell.com/]: - example uses rte_security APIs for macsec - suggestion made to consider merging with l2fwd-crypto, but concerns expressed that they may not be a good fit together. - overall, there is a desire to keep total number of examples in DPDK low - should always be on the lookout for examples to remove - as DPDK gains new libs/features, some growth in total number of examples is to be expected - macsec is not commonly found as an implemented protocol in other networking SW, so felt it would be good to have in DPDK. - TB voted and agreed to accept the example into the release. - Thomas will supply a list of tasks for the merge. 7. A.O.B.: - Proposed discusson DTS - No time in meeting, discussion deferred for future meeting.
