[dpdk-dev] Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-06-30

[dpdk-dev] Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-06-30

[Aaron Conole]

Attendees
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* Aaron
* Bruce
* Ferruh
* Hemant
* Honnappa
* Jerin
* Kevin
* Konstantin
* Lincoln Lavioe (UNH representative)
* Maxime
* Olivier
* Stephen
* Thomas

NOTE: The technical board meets 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: Additional follow up for ABI scheduled 2021-07-02

* intro
** updated agenda
*** added temp. gov board rep - aaron chosen (Thomas)
*** added next-net survey (Ferruh)
*** added security process (Maxime)

* Temp governing board membership
** Honnappa will be on PTO for the next Gov. Board meeting
** Decision to have Aaron present at the governing board

* Discussion about API for clang / gcc builtins (Honnappa)
** shemminger: MSFT doesn't have support for atomic builtins
** thomas: need to know what the effort looks like for compatibility
** thomas: 3 options to vote for atomics
*** OPT1 - continue using gcc builtins
*** OPT2 - a wrapper at compile time that can be done in future
*** OPT3 - do mass renames / wrapping now with internal implementations
*** OPT4 - create a wrapper that clones gcc built-ins instead
**** Not a good option because it could clash with external project that links in
     stdatomic vs builtin
*** shemminger: only available in c++
** Tabled for more discussion - Honnappa to follow up via tech board mailing list

* IOL
** Ask governing board about coverity license for coverity desktop
** First cut tools, cppcheck, scan-build, flawfinder
** Daily sub-tree reporting for merging, for now dashboard
** Single release report as well - Lincoln to capture as a story
** DTS workgroup for virtio
** question for techboard - is compression testing a priority?

* API / ABI discussion
*** Meeting setup for Fri, Jul 02, 2021