From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A72A0524; Thu, 6 May 2021 17:38:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 066A2410EE; Thu, 6 May 2021 17:38:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374CC410DB for ; Thu, 6 May 2021 17:38:46 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1620315525; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KQIWMTkmmkrNuqa3cJEjqpGnYhDgM0k0W1rj22Iqp70=; b=MoIMSsThotLlODjYtFxlQBzTnNWK3UafmJU1/n8zGSb4FF4mKDSUefa120IukULTi8AQJo jXQtY/UeKA2diufrF+FSjMrRhY4pXNbdxFghG0hT7hthBXGogecqdt0Dqs7LGr+or/SXoF SyAwxup+J4VCWxSkK6MNOackM0j50OQ= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-104-031UC96yP9K3CAniON0bNA-1; Thu, 06 May 2021 11:38:42 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 031UC96yP9K3CAniON0bNA-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 45B4D8015DB; Thu, 6 May 2021 15:38:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.110.22] (unknown [10.36.110.22]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABE355D9E2; Thu, 6 May 2021 15:38:40 +0000 (UTC) To: "dev@dpdk.org" , DPDK Techboard From: Maxime Coquelin Message-ID: <19cb6f8a-ebc0-693c-30a9-f060e00da1df@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 17:38:38 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=maxime.coquelin@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-04-07 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-04-07 Members Attending ----------------- -Bruce -Ferruh -Hemant -Honnappa -Jerin -Konstantin -Maxime -Olivier -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 2021-04-21 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Konstantin. 1) Linux Foundation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Technical board to request the Linux Foundation to provide a backup solution for the dpdk.org infrastructure * AI: Hemant to bring the request at the next governing board 2) Security team extension ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * We have 3 outstanding vulnerabilities in the queue * Security team members don't have enough time to handle them, and needs some help * Cheng Jiang from Intel, who has experience in contributing to the Vhost library, volunteers to join the team * The technical board voted for Cheng Jiang to join the team, and welcomes him in his new role 3) Experimental APIs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Lots of internal APIs are being exported in the different libraries * AI to the trees maintainers to reduce what is being exported. 4) Testing Leader's role documentation update ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Aaron is working on it * AI Aaron to send the patches the web@dpdk.org mailing list 5) DTS usability ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Honnappa found someone at ARM to review DTS, with the goal of analyzing whether it is easy to use DTS for new features * Feedback is being captured in document [0]. * First meeting on 2021-04-28 at 1PM UTC at https://meet.jit.si/DPDK 5) KNI status ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * KNI is moving to a dedicated repository with the goal of eventually deprecate it. * Some people are still using it though, so alternatives are needed * Virtio-user PMD is mentionned as an alternative for the exceptionnal datapath, with reported performance being on par with KNI but without any OoT drivers * AI Ferruh to update the KNI documentation to mention it is going to be deprecated and that its use is not recommended. Also to add a link there to the "Virtio-user as exceptionnal datapath" guide [0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c5S0_mZzFvzZfYkqyORLT2-qNvUb-fBdjA6DGusy4yM/edit#