Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-August -9

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-August -9

[Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran]

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-August -9

Members Attending
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-Aaron
-Bruce
-Hemant
-Honnappa
-Jerin (Chair)
-Konstantin
-Stephen
-Thomas
-Tyler
-Morten
 

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- August -23 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Honnappa


Dublin DPDK submit
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Collected various topics to be discussed in tech-board meeting on 11th September 2023 evening.

1) General tech-board discussion on the
- Process of adding/removing tech-board members
- Expected size of tech-board  Do we want more people? Less? Grow the TB or expand it?
- Specific individuals who wish to join or leave the TB within the next year?
- Efficient ways to split the work up etc.
2) Discussion led by Aaron on the possible automation of patches in the future - pros? Cons ? Worth implementing? Best process if this route is pursued.
3) Internal review process: how to accelerate and/or improve this - more comments, addressing/responding to these comments, etc.
4) Improvements in use of lab resources by maintainers and committers - additional branches, etc. 


DPDK C11 atomics integration challenges
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1) Discussed various issues with C11 atomics integration like
- rte_ring performance issue C11 atomics
- ABI compatibility issues in public header due to atomics size differences 
- c++23 clang distribution  issues

- In general agreed to have DPDK specific prefix for better integration of atomics primitives by providing room to
accommodate compiler specific differences, Tyler Retzlaff will send a RFC for the same.
RFC is at https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=29255