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 63026A0C52; Thu, 4 Nov 2021 20:54:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA5541223; Thu, 4 Nov 2021 20:54:22 +0100 (CET) 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 7BA38411C9 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2021 20:54:21 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1636055661; 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=gJ14EhuDQVj1IcrAHlak/KCPKWt6trm+CJzyc8xxlL0=; b=jDDi/QMXHoRm2Mcr/fHJWMfuoluYHRI9BFf3lHU2dxoeiRxM2j+5nOaaISIqX6e/bW1g2V eZTvL1KpUVGlopTqhONjR2C9Hd65M97UaOV1HSGnNqLUrT/56EPELoRH/hL9mX6lMPmlA5 1rXj6nYGQgvRNNtxBxwpoTCLWFRUUpY= 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-134-Z2KKSNqMP36f8ppvqWRU5A-1; Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:54:18 -0400 X-MC-Unique: Z2KKSNqMP36f8ppvqWRU5A-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 03122104FC0D for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2021 19:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.39.208.16] (unknown [10.39.208.16]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2888A5DD68 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2021 19:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <0fccb0b7-b2bb-7391-9c94-e87fbf64f007@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 20:54:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.2.0 To: "dev@dpdk.org" From: Maxime Coquelin 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-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-Nov-03 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-Nov-03 Members Attending ----------------- -Aaron -Ferruh -Hemant -Honnappa -Jerin -Kevin -Konstantin -Maxime (Chair) -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-Nov-17 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Olivier. # ENETFEC driver - TB discussed whether depending on an out-of-tree Kernel module is acceptable -- TB voted to accept that ENETFEC PMD relies on out-of-tree kernel module -- TB recommends avoiding out-of-tree Kernel modules, but the kernel module required by the ENETFEC PMD is in the process of being upstreamed - TB discussed whether having this drivers as a VDEV is acceptable or if a bus driver is required, knowing that only this device would use it -- TB voted to accept this driver as a VDEV # IP frag ABI change in v21.11 [0] - This ABI change was not announced so TB approval was required -- TB voted to accept this ABI change # Communication plan around v21.11 release - Thomas highlighted that a lot of changes are being introduced in v21.11 release. - In addition to the usual release blog post, blog posts about specific new features would be welcomed -- TB calls for ideas to maintainers and contributors # Feedback from Governing Board on proposal for technical board process updates - Honnappa proposes a new spreadsheet to improve the communication between the technical and governing boards # L3 forward mode in testpmd [1] - Honnappa presented the reasons of this new forwarding mode -- L3FWD is a standard benchmark for DPDK -- L3FWD example misses debugging features present in testpmd - Concerns raised about code duplication and bloating of testpmd - Suggestions that adding more statistics and interactive mode to L3 FWD would be preferable -- But concerns that it would make this application too much complex, defeating the initial purpose of this example - As no consensus has been reached, Honnappa proposed to reject/defer it for now # DMARC configuration - Ali monitored the DMARC configuration changes done on the user and web mailing lists -- Better results have been observed - TB voted to apply the new policy to the other mailing lists - Ali will apply the new policy by the end of next week # Patch from AMD to raise the maximum number of lcores - Ran out of time, adding this item to the next meeting [0]: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211102190309.5795-1-konstantin.ananyev@intel.com/ [1]: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210430213747.41530-2-kathleen.capella@arm.com/