Minutes of Technical Board meeting 18-October-23

Minutes of Technical Board meeting 18-October-23

[Kevin Traynor]

Members Attending
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Aaron Conole
Bruce Richardson
Hemant Agrawal
Honappa Nagarahalli
Jerin Jacob
Kevin Traynor (Chair)
Konstantin Ananyev
Maxime Coquelin
Stephen Hemminger
Thomas Monjalon

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.
Agenda and minutes can be found at http://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes

Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2023-Nov-02 @ 3pm UTC, and will
be chaired by Aaron.

Agenda Items
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Experimental API promotion (David)
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- Some experimental API being called from inline helper triggering a
warning in applications not compile with experimental API (e.g. OVS)
- Patch submitted to promote those API to stable early
(https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20231018091123.1594324-1-david.marchand@redhat.com/)
- Simple signature, not likely to need to be changed
- Promotion to stable API approved
- Some increased documentation on endianness needed
- Checks can be added to CI to prevent a re-occurrence as a later step

Increase max lcores for AMD EPYC CPUs (Sivaprasad)
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- Patch to increase max core count for native AMD EPYC builds
(http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20230925151027.558546-1-sivaprasad.tummala@amd.com)
- There is some asks for more than 128 worker cores
- Discussion about generally increasing the default max core count and
trade-offs with memory consumption but this is longer term issue
- Acceptance for the direction of this patch in the short term
- Details of whether it should be for EPYC only or x86 to be figured out
on mailing list

Conclusion of joint meeting yesterday between two boards (Nathan)
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- Exploring option of adding developer in UNH for DTS
- Ben presented some ideas around developer focused campaigns for 2024
-- reports/code challenges/swag as well as continuing user stories/blogs
- Discussion on exploring how DPDK can help with Cloud/Security/AI

Website meeting minutes/invite (Kevin/Thomas)
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- Any TB minutes available but missing from list Thomas sent, please let
him know
- Thomas will send patch with updated TB minutes and new meeting invite

AOB
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- UNH lab will give update on 2023 progress in next TB meeting
-- Discussion may start on 2024 priorities
-- Aaron will poll for 2024 items soon

- Ferruh would like more reviews on bonding patches that have specific
APIs and change ethdev structs
(https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=29900&state=*)

- Some maintainers have changed priorities and have less time now
-- There is a need for more maintainers to help with patch review/merging