Minutes of DPDK Technical Board Meeting, 2025-07-23

Minutes of DPDK Technical Board Meeting, 2025-07-23

[Thomas Monjalon]

Members Attending: 5/11
	- Aaron Conole
	- Bruce Richardson
	- Jerin Jacob
	- Stephen Hemminger
	- Thomas Monjalon (Chair)

NOTE: The Technical Board meetings take place every second Wednesday at 3 pm UTC
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Agenda and minutes can be found at http://core.dpdk.org/techboard/minutes
The next meeting will happen on September 3.


1/ Socket and NUMA node IDs

Sometimes it is defined as a signed type, sometimes as an unsigned type.
The value -1 (SOCKET_ID_ANY) means any socket/node.
We could use a typedef to ensure consistency.
If an unsigned type is defined, we need to explicitly cast -1 value.

Defining a type would be an API breaking change but not too big,
so it could be acceptable in 25.11.


2/ DTS maintainers

Paul Szczepanek (Arm) is replaced by Luca Vizzarro (Arm)


3/ DPDK Summit

Cancellation of September Summit (California) has been announced.
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2025-July/000536.html


4/ AI review bots

Grout repository on GitHub is already testing 2 bots (CodeRabbit and Sourcery).

For the DPDK repository, we must open a GitHub pull request for each patch series received on the mailing list.
The the review link would be published in patchwork as a test result.

We must guess the branch to use, by using the same script as for patchwork delegation.
We must check that the free versions of the AI bots accept using multiple branches.
We must decide whether to use the OVS robot account or the main DPDK account.