Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-Sep-06

[Konstantin Ananyev]

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-Spetember-06

Members Attending
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-Aaron
-Bruce
-Hemant
-Jerin
-Kevin
-Konstantin  (Chair)
-Maxime
-Stephen
-Thomas


NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday at 
https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC.
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.

NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2023-September-20 @3pm UTC, and 
will be chaired by Maxime

1) Aaron: Intel test lab update

  - Intel test lab is up and running
  - To avoid such shortcomings in future, the plan is
    to duplicate Intel-Lab specific test-cases in UNH test lab.
    Right now it is on the stage of identifying such test-cases
    and required HW.

2) Jerin: Policy for trace point addtion is automated
via devtools/checkpatches.sh and proposed in:
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230307120514.2774917-2-adwivedi@marvell.com/

  - Main idea: libraries that already instrumented with trace-points 
(cryptodev, ethdev, eventdev and mempool)
    will require trace-point to be present in their new public API 
functions.
  - General ACK from the TB members.

3) Thomas: Call for reviews for the patch-series:
http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=29438

   Main changes:
   - Promote DPDK thread API to stable (help MSVC integration)
   - Reduce the usage of pthread functions inside DPDK code.
     (pthread_cancel and pthread locks still remain for now).
   - Remove 'attributes' parameter for rte_thread_create_control() 
function - public API change.

4) Ben: quick update on marketing activity
   - DPDK August newsletter is out:

https://www.dpdk.org/monthly-newsletter-august-2023/?utm_content=263403350&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-33275771
   - Update on last DPDk site activities and expected number of attendees
     for DPDK user-space event.