Minutes of DPDK Technical Board Meeting, 2024-09-18

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

Members Attending: 11/11
	- Aaron Conole
	- Bruce Richardson
	- Hemant Agrawal
	- Honnappa Nagarahalli
	- Jerin Jacob
	- Kevin Traynor
	- Konstantin Ananyev
	- Maxime Coquelin
	- Morten Brørup
	- Stephen Hemminger
	- Thomas Monjalon (Chair)

NOTE: The Technical Board meetings take place every second Wednesday at 3 pm UTC
on https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96459488340?password=d808f1f6-0a28-4165-929e-5a5bcae7efeb
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.
Agenda and minutes can be found at http://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes


1/ DPDK summit remote speakers

The techboard prefers talks happening on stage in general.
One week before the summit it appears that many speakers
won't be able to travel because of VISA issues.
It has been decided to allow these speakers to present remotely,
preferably with the help of someone being physically on stage.
The same decision applies in case a speaker has another issue
preventing a travel to Canada.
Remote speakers are asked to provide a link to a pre-recorded video backup.


2/ dpdk-next-dts tree maintainer

Juraj Linkeš won't be able to continue his involvement in DTS.
He will be replaced in the role of git tree maintainer for DTS
by Paul Szczepanek (Arm) and Patrick Robb (UNH).
Paul agreed to be the primary maintainer.


3/ Linux uAPI headers import

Maxime asked whether his proposal to import some Linux headers
inside the DPDK repository was accepted.
The goal is to be able to use a recent Linux API without having
to consider whether the build machine knows it or not.
As always, if a call is not supported in the running kernel,
an error will be returned by the kernel.
The board confirmed it is the right direction.


4/ DPDK + AI

Nathan raised a recurring question about the position of DPDK
regarding AI techniques. He asked how to integrate it.
Some usages of AI for networking were discussed briefly.
There will be more information and discussions during the summit.

Then another discussion started about helping the AI training with DPDK.
There is a desire to have such protocol layers implemented with DPDK,
and we are looking for volunteers.